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Lubbock Area United Way Inc

Giving people hope.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$421k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$10MYouth Development$6.9MPublic Benefit$5.4MCrime & Legal$4.0MHousing & Shelter$1.5MHealth$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.4MEducation$915kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k22 grants · $3.0M
  • $250k+2 grants · $833k
$145,330
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATE EMPLOYEE CHARITABLE CAMPAIGN$420,913
EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC$412,460
YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK$226,360
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF LUBBOCK$224,462
LUBBOCK CHILDREN'S HEALTH CLINIC$189,800
THE SALVATION ARMY$189,670
GUADALUPE PARKWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC$184,530
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC$177,137
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF LUBBOCK INC$171,421
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS ON THE SOUTH PLAINS INC$149,600
CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES INC$147,425
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES$145,330
THE PARENTING COTTAGE$134,694
VOICE OF HOPE LUBBOCK RAPE CRISIS CENTER$129,435
WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES OF LUBBOCK INC$114,725
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.3M) 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.

area typical 16%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $151k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $150k → 17%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $151k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $146k → 17%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $151k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $146k → 17%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $151k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $146k → 17%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $141k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $146k → 17%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $135k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $145k → 17%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $135k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $145k → 17%THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $135k → 17%FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES: $145k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $442k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $442k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $442k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $442k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $417k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $412k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $412k → 17%EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $412k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (UPBRING): $75k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $75k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (UPBRING): $75k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES: $73k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (UPBRING): $70k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (UPBRING): $64k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (UPBRING): $64k → 17%LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES (UPBRING): $64k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$33M · 24 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
0

Total granted

$33M
$0

Still filing today

83%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • EL
    EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M · revenue +67%
  • LB
    LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +19%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +37%

Funded once

    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.

    04Its field

    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.

    1
    Lubbock Family Outreach Center Inc Dba Family Guidance & Outreach Center

    The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.

    Human Services
    2
    Lubbock Chamber of Commerce

    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.

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    3
    Children's Home of Lubbock and Family Service Agency Inc

    Working in creative collaboration to provide quality care that transforms the lives of at-risk children and their families through the active compassion of christ.

    Human Services
    4
    Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc

    Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.

    Health
    5
    Junior League of Lubbock Inc

    The junior league of lubbock is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

    Community Improvement
    6
    Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc

    The volunteer center of lubbock inspires a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it.

    Community Improvement
    7
    Goodwill Industries of Lubbock Contract Services Inc

    Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.

    Employment
    8
    Lubbock Christian School

    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…

    Education
    9
    Lubbock Area United Way Inc

    Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.

    Philanthropy
    10
    Lubbock County Junior Livestock Association

    Promoting agricultural education, leadership and agricultural entrepreneurship in the youth of lubbock county, texas; encouraging and recognizing the achievement of youth in agriculture and livestock management; encouraging youth academic…

    Youth Development
    11
    Junior League of Lubbock Foundation

    The foundation was established to provide a permanent endowment fund or funds for the purpose of encouraging members of the public to make gifts to the junior league of lubbock, inc. and for providing a more secure and permanent means of…

    Community Improvement
    12
    Friends of the Lubbock Public Library Inc

    To financially contribute to the lubbock library system and promoting its many programs.

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    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Advocacy Center of the South Plains; the most unlike its peers is Lubbock Childrens Health Clinic. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
    04the grantee network

    20 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. 20 of the 24 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.

    5
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    7
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    20/20
    Grantees still filing
    16/20
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    STATE EMPLOYEE CHARITABLE CAMPAIGN: $5,372,533 · OtherSTATE EMPLOYEE CHARITABLE CAMPAIGNYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $1,774,584 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCKThe Salvation Army: $1,511,422 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyGUADALUPE PARKWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $1,479,322 · OtherGUADALUPE PARKWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INCLUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC: $1,476,004 · OtherLUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINICCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $1,194,432 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INCWEST TEXAS GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL INC: $905,360 · OtherWEST TEXAS GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL INCSOUTH PLAINS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS: $883,728 · OtherSOUTH PLAINS CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSSBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $867,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 694 SOUTH PLAINS: $832,520 · OtherEARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $3,424,816 · Human ServicesEARLY LEARNING CENTERS O…FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK TEXAS INC: $1,168,600 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATI…THE PARENTING COTTAGE: $1,147,552 · Human ServicesTHE PARENTING COTTAGEWOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES: $926,948 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVI…LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC: $560,136 · Human ServicesLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES…FAMILY LEGAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS: $1,386,368 · Crime & LegalFAMILY LEG…CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC: $813,234 · Crime & LegalCASA OF TH…CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS: $799,988 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S…LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC: $1,815,856 · Youth DevelopmentLUBBOCK B…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC: $1,034,112 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITI…VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $1,387,946 · Community ImprovementLUBBOCK RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $1,043,444 · HealthLITERACY LUBBOCK: $914,930 · EducationGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF LUBBOCK INC: $609,968 · Employment
    Other$16,296,905Human Services$7,228,052Crime & Legal$2,999,590Youth Development$2,849,968Community Improvement$1,387,946Health$1,043,444Education$914,930Employment$609,968

    Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

    25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $3,424,816 over 8y, 21% of budgetLUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC: $1,815,856 over 8y, 24% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $1,774,584 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetGUADALUPE PARKWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $1,479,322 over 8y, 34% of budgetLUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC: $1,476,004 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $1,387,946 over 8y, 29% of budgetFAMILY LEGAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS: $1,386,368 over 8y, 21% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $1,194,432 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK TEXAS INC: $1,168,600 over 8y, 51% of budgetTHE PARENTING COTTAGE: $1,147,552 over 8y, 23% of budgetLUBBOCK RAPE CRISIS CENTER: $1,043,444 over 8y, 22% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC: $1,034,112 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetWOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES: $926,948 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetLITERACY LUBBOCK: $914,930 over 8y, 57% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $867,000 over 8y, 35% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 694 SOUTH PLAINS: $832,520 over 8y, 14% of budgetCASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC: $813,234 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS: $799,988 over 8y, 11% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF LUBBOCK INC: $609,968 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH INC: $560,136 over 8y, 0.1% of budget
    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 EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
    • Who funds LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
    • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK ↗
    • Who funds GUADALUPE PARKWAY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC ↗
    • Who funds LUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC ↗
    • Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
    • Who funds FAMILY LEGAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH PLAINS ↗
    • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
    • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK TEXAS INC ↗
    • Who funds THE PARENTING COTTAGE ↗
    • Who funds LUBBOCK RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
    • Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC ↗
    • Who funds WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES ↗
    • Who funds LITERACY LUBBOCK ↗
    • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
    • Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA COUNCIL 694 SOUTH PLAINS ↗
    • Who funds CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC ↗
    • Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF THE SOUTH PLAINS ↗
    • Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
    • Who funds LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH 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.

    Community Foundation …HDS FoundationCh Foundation IncHelen Jones Foundatio…Texas Mutual Insuranc…International Assoc o…Enterprise Holdings F…National Philanthropi…Amazonsmile Foundation
    Community Foundation of West TexasTX30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Community Foundation of West Texas · HDS Foundation · Ch Foundation Inc · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Texas Mutual Insurance Company · International Assoc of Lions Clubs · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation

    How this is measured
    Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

    How much its grantees rely on government

    Each dot is one organization Lubbock Area United Way Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lubbock Area United Way Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
      no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
      0get no government money at all
      12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
      0rely on government for over half their income
      typical government reliance, FY20–25
      How this is measured
      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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

      On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

      How this is measured
      Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

      Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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