· Public charity
Market Lubbock Economic Development Corporation
To enhance and encourage economic development and job creation and facilitate the development of new industries.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of MARKET LUBBOCK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 46 grants below total $2,967,105 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,093,748 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $126,643 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $608k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $876k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUBBOCK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE | $1,000,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $434,500 |
| CAVENDAR REAL ESTATE OF LUBBOCK II LLC | $125,000 |
| CAVENDAR REAL ESTATE OF LUBBOCK LLC | $125,000 |
| DIXIE PARTNERS II LP | $125,000 |
| LBB HWY 84 LLC | $125,000 |
| LEVELLAND ISD | $99,350 |
| CITY OF LUBBOCK CHURCH INC | $80,397 |
| LUBBOCK EXPERIENCE INC (DBA LCAF) | $75,000 |
| BROWNFIELD ISD | $69,207 |
| TRU DEAN REALTY LLC | $52,474 |
| HALE CENTER ISD | $44,488 |
| LOCKNEY ISD | $34,809 |
| MIXED NUTZ LEASING | $33,518 |
| DENVER CITY ISD | $30,748 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 97% of your 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 +113% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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
- LELUBBOCK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALLIANCE4× · 2018–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +158%
- LELUBBOCK EXPERIENCE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $395k · revenue +113% · 29% of their budget
- LELUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT AND PERFORMING ARTS ASSOCIATION3× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- SPSOUTH PLAINS ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENTSone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- VMVERITAS MEDICALone grant, 2019 · $144k
- WBWESTERN BANKone grant, 2019 · $125k
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.
To foster the creation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts in and around the lubbock community.
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…
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 foster and promote educational, cultural and entertainment programs, to include the visual and performing arts, for the citizens of lubbock and the surrounding area.
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…
Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.
To assist the local business, governmental and individual community in developing better business relationships and to increase the local revenue base by encouraging tourism and business development.
Raising funds to support the activities of lubbock christian university and to fund capital projects for instructional facilities for lubbock christian university.
To lead the community in the improvement of the local business environment, creation of jobs and growth of the local tax base in laramie, wyoming.
Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Experience Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ports-to-Plains Trade Corridor Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 120 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.
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: Lubbock Economic Development Alliance · Ch Foundation Inc · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Civic Lubbock Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Rea Charitable Trust · The Dallas Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Amazonsmile 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 Market Lubbock Economic Development Corporation 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.