· Private foundation
Kuykendall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $136k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $13,500 |
| REFUGE SERVICES INC | $10,500 |
| HOSPICE OF THE SOUTH PLAINS | $7,000 |
| LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $7,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LUBBOCK INC | $6,500 |
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| TEXAS BOYS RANCH | $5,500 |
| ARRINGTON CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC | $4,500 |
| YWCA OF LUBBOCK | $4,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| HIGH POINT VILLAGE | $4,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- SPSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +31%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF LUBBOCK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +5%
- HOHOSPICE OF LUBBOCK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $8k
- CLCREATIVE LEARNING CENTER PRE-SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $2k
- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INCone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
The ywca of lubbock legacy fund inc. is dedicated to meeting the needs of the ywca of lubbock in supporting the community through its mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for…
The family legal services of the south plains works to provide low income clients of the south plains with first-rate legal assistance, advocacy, and quality counsel in matters of family and elder law at free and/or reduced cost.
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
Lone Star CASA elevates the voices of children in Kaufman and Rockwall County who have experienced abuse and neglect by providing trained volunteer advocates to work alongside children and families so they can achieve safety and stability…
To provide victims of sexual assault in the lubbock county and surrounding area with free, confidential crisis advocacy, assistance, and support, and to promote public awareness of the realities of sexual victimization and strive toward…
The lubbock chamber of commerce provides promotion of business and community growth and development as well as preserving the competitive business enterprise system in the lubbock and surrounding area.
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
Lubbock christian school is dedicated to providing a quality environment in which each student will grow in wisdom and stature and in favor with god and man. lcs strives for excellence spiritually, personally, and professionally among…
Trade Organization of Real Estate Professionals. Promoting the common interest of the Real Estate industry in Lubbock and the surrounding area. To help promote improvement of business conditions in this area.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
The Mantooth House is a Recovery Residence for Chemically Dependent adult women who have successfully completed primary treatment and are in early, but active recovery. We exist to provide quality recovery housing and bridge the gap…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Area United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ronald McDONALD House Charities of Greater North Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds REFUGE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMO AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Alcoholic Recovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · South Plains Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Rc Johnson Jr Foundation Inc · Ershel Franklin Charitable Trust · International Assoc of Lions Clubs
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Kuykendall Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.