· Public charity
Lubbock South Plains Lions Club
To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through lions clubs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 14 grants below total $164,280 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $210,115 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $45,835 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUBBOCK BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC | $42,363 |
| TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH INC | $17,800 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF LUBBOCK | $12,200 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $12,100 |
| TEXAS LIONS EYEGLASS RECYCLING CENTER | $11,600 |
| LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC | $10,000 |
| PAUL'S PROJECT DBA GRACE CAMPUS | $9,800 |
| TEXAS LIONS CAMP | $9,237 |
| LUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC | $8,000 |
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC | $7,540 |
| BIG BROTHERSBIG SISTERS | $7,000 |
| CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC | $6,000 |
| TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION INC | $5,340 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INC | $5,300 |
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 (FY22–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +23% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- LBLUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC5× · 2021–2025 · $203k · revenue +32%
- TGTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH5× · 2021–2025 · $97k · revenue +94%
- SPSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $59k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- CHCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -53%
MARCH OF DIMES INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -20%- JLJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.
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.
The volunteer center of lubbock inspires a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it.
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.
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…
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
Educating and nurturing young children and their families for successful futures.
To provide quality medical care at an affordable cost to the medically uninsured adults without regard to their background, in a caring environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Girls and Boys Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Grace Campus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 20 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 LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIONS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIONS EYEGLASS RECYCLING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CAMPUS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS ↗
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: Ch Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Texas Instruments Foundation · International Assoc of Lions Clubs · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Rushing Family Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation
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 Lubbock South Plains Lions Club 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.
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