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Sessions Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Sessions Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$480k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$84k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$513kReligion$510kFood & Nutrition$403kEnvironment$234kHuman Services$207kYouth Development$190kAnimals$171kHealth$127kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $235k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENWOOD FINE ARTS ACADEMY INC$84,000
GJ BLACKOUT$75,000
ROO DOO'S WILDLIFE PARK$66,000
FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES$25,000
WISDOM & TRUTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY$25,000
CARILLON FOUNDATION$25,000
MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY$25,000
SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK$25,000
COMMUNITY FOOD BANK GRAND JUNCTION$20,000
WE CREATE HEART$20,000
GRAND VALLEY PUBLIC RADIO CO INC$15,000
GRAND VALLEY YOUTH CYCLING$15,000
TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC$10,000
POST-GRAZA CO EMS$10,000
LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH I: $10k → 16%UNLIMITED PLAY INC: $20k → 5%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 17%BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 27 repeat orgs$462k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.

27 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
13

Total granted

$2.3M
$307k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+20%

Still filing today

70%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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

  • MC
    MESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $198k · revenue +301%
  • CF
    CARILLON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $157k · revenue +278%
  • LA
    LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • LB
    LIBERTY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $80k
  • TL
    THE LEARNING COUNCIL
    one grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue -3%
  • MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $33k · revenue +141%
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
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
2
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
3
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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4
Civic Lubbock Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
5
Lubbock Economic Development Alliance

To promote economic growth by creating high quality jobs, investing in new capital improvements, retaining and expanding existing businesses and enhancing lubbock's quality of life.

Community Improvement
6
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
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
Creative Waco

Creative waco's mission is to grow and support a thriving cultural and creative community in waco and mclennan county, texas.

Arts & Culture
9
Colorado Food Cluster Inc

Provide opportunities for all to thrive by offering free food resources to communities.

Food & Nutrition
10
Urban Land Conservancy

Urban land conservancy's mission is to acquire, develop, and/or preserve community assets in urban areas for a variety of community needs especially in high poverty, low-income, underserved, at-risk communities.

Community Improvement
11
Colorado Agricultural Leadership Program

To develop leaders that will become a strong, unified voice for agricultural issues.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Colorado Nonprofit Development Center; the most unlike its peers is Post-Garza County Ems. 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

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 47 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
19/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MT ZION CHURCH OF S SEBASTIAN CO: $279,296 · OtherMT ZION CHURCH OF S SEBASTIAN COROO DOO'S WILDLIFE PARK: $171,000 · OtherROO DOO'S WILDLIFE PARKCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK GRAND JUNCTION: $144,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK GRAND JUNCTIONWISDOM & TRUTH CLASSICAL ACADEMY: $135,754 · OtherWISDOM & TRUTH CLASSICAL ACADEMYLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMING AR: $115,000 · OtherLUBBOCK ENTERTAINMENT PERFORMING ARLIBERTY BAPTIST ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · OtherLIBERTY BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONSOUTH SEBASTIAN CO BOYS & GIRLS CLU: $70,000 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS: $70,000 · Other+19 more: $412,942 · Other+19 moreGREENWOOD FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $114,000 · Arts & CultureGREENWOOD FINE A…LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $103,000 · Arts & CultureLUBBOCK ARTS ALL…Lubbock Community Theatre: $90,000 · Arts & CultureLubbock Communit…American Windmill Museum Inc: $49,147 · Arts & CultureAmerican Windmil…BALLET LUBBOCK: $30,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET LUBBOCK+2 more: $17,000 · Arts & CultureNOURISH COLORADO: $70,000 · HealthAlstrom Angels: $63,110 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $44,000 · HealthTHE GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 · HealthPOST-GARZA COUNTY EMS: $10,000 · HealthMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $198,000 · EnvironmentLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $69,029 · Food & NutritionSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $64,924 · Food & NutritionMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $33,334 · Food & NutritionCARILLON FOUNDATION: $157,000 · Housing & ShelterGJ BLACKOUT: $75,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO CANYONS ASSOCIATION: $36,000 · Recreation & SportsGrand Valley Youth Cycling: $32,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,477,992Arts & Culture$403,147Health$207,110Environment$198,000Food & Nutrition$167,287Housing & Shelter$157,000Recreation & Sports$143,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMESA COUNTY LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $198,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCARILLON FOUNDATION: $157,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetGREENWOOD FINE ARTS ACADEMY: $114,000 over 2y, 57% of budgetLUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $103,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetLubbock Community Theatre: $90,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetGJ BLACKOUT: $75,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetNOURISH COLORADO: $70,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ARTS: $70,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetLUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC: $69,029 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC: $64,924 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlstrom Angels: $63,110 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetAmerican Windmill Museum Inc: $49,147 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEARNING COUNCIL: $40,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOLORADO CANYONS ASSOCIATION: $36,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK INC: $33,334 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF INC: $33,333 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY INC: $33,333 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGrand Valley Youth Cycling: $32,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetBALLET LUBBOCK: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHONOR VETERANS NOW: $22,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetUNLIMITED PLAY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GREGORY KISTLER TREATMENT CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUBBOCK EXPERIENCE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPOST-GARZA COUNTY EMS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetABILITIES UNLIMITED OF FORT SMITH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLUBBOCK SYMPHONY GUILD INC: $7,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetMONARCH 61 PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 IncCommunity Foundation …Helen Jones Foundatio…Diekemper Family Foun…Texas Instruments Fou…Garrison Family Found…Mary L Livermore Foun…Welborn-Payne Endowme…South Plains Foundati…The Evelyn M Davies F…Civic Lubbock IncHDS Foundation
Ch Foundation IncTX24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · South Plains Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Civic Lubbock Inc · HDS 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 Sessions Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sessions Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%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
    1get 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sessions Family Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Sessions Family Foundation Inc 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 47 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-PF 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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