· Private foundation
Kuykendall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| TEXAS BOYS RANCH | $5,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| ARRINGTON CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC | $4,500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| YWCA OF LUBBOCK | $4,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS TEXAS | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -1% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SPSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +10%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE OF LUBBOCK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +310%
- 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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $500
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Alcoholic Recovery Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMO AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kuykendall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kuykendall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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