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Lubbock South Plains Lions Club at a glance

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Lubbock South Plains Lions Club

To empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote international understanding through lions clubs.

$210k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Youth Development$210kHuman Services$171kFood & Nutrition$124kHealth$87kHousing & Shelter$54kRecreation & Sports$48kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 14 grants below total $164,280, the rows itemized in this filing. The $210,115 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $45,835 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
$9,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$65k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $13k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $12k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$697k · 14 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
3

Total granted

$697k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
-20%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LB
    LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $203k · revenue +32%
  • TG
    TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $97k · revenue +94%
  • SP
    SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $59k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • CH
    COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -53%
  • MARCH OF DIMES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -20%
  • JL
    JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +5%
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
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
2
Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc

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

Health
3
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
4
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
5
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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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
Family Legal Services of the South Plains

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.

Crime & Legal
8
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
9
Goodwill Industries of Lubbock Contract Services Inc

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

Employment
10
Goodwill Industries of Lubbock Inc

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

Employment
11
Early Learning Centers of Lubbock Inc

Educating and nurturing young children and their families for successful futures.

Human Services
12
Lions Clinic of Texas Inc

To provide quality medical care at an affordable cost to the medically uninsured adults without regard to their background, in a caring environment.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Girls and Boys Ranch; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC: $203,013 · Youth DevelopmentLUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INCTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $47,704 · HealthTEXAS LIONS CAMP IN…TEXAS LIONS EYEGLASS RECYCLING CENTER FOUNDATION: $36,793 · HealthTEXAS LIONS EYEGLAS…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INC: $23,600 · HealthRONALD MCDONALD HOU…COVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCOVENANT HEALTH SYS…MARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INCLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $64,613 · Food & NutritionLUBBOCK MEALS ON W…SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $59,040 · Food & NutritionSOUTH PLAINS FOOD …TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $96,550 · Human ServicesTEXAS GIRLS AND BO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,100 · Human ServicesAmerican National …LUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC: $30,000 · OtherLUBBOCK CHILDREN…CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $27,200 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITI…The Salvation Army: $17,600 · OtherThe Salvation Ar…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF LUBBOCK INC: $7,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG…TEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION INC: $11,740 · OtherTEXAS LIONS FOUN…JUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INC: $6,240 · OtherJUNIOR LEAGUE OF…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $6,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDA…GRACE CAMPUS: $29,800 · Crime & LegalCASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC: $6,000 · Crime & LegalLUBBOCK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $24,000 · Housing & Shelter
Youth Development$203,013Health$128,097Food & Nutrition$123,653Human Services$121,650Other$105,780Crime & Legal$35,800Housing & Shelter$24,000

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 budgetLUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC: $203,013 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH: $96,550 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $64,613 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $59,040 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS LIONS CAMP INC: $47,704 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTEXAS LIONS EYEGLASS RECYCLING CENTER FOUNDATION: $36,793 over 3y, 14% of budgetLUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGRACE CAMPUS: $29,800 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $27,200 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $24,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF THE SOUTHWEST INC: $23,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS LIONS FOUNDATION INC: $11,740 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCOVENANT HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LUBBOCK INC: $6,240 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $6,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Ch Foundation IncDiekemper Family Foun…Community Foundation …Texas Instruments Fou…International Assoc o…Helen Jones Foundatio…HDS FoundationKuykendall FoundationMary L Livermore Foun…Rushing Family Founda…Garrison Family Found…Xcel Energy Foundation
Ch Foundation IncTX24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 South Plains Lions Club funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lubbock South Plains Lions Club. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lubbock South Plains Lions Club?

    Find your warmest path to Lubbock South Plains Lions Club through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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