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South Plains Community Action Assoc

Admin federal and state grants to provide opportunities and initiatives for individuals economic growth and self-sufficiency, thereby helping people and changing lives.

$16M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$515k
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 2025.

Education$19MHuman Services$18MHealth$1.0MReligion$33k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $515,270, the rows itemized in this filing. The $15,997,655 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $15,482,385 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.
$515,270
Median grant
1
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOOL DISTRICT$515,270
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 17%MIDLAND COLLEGE: $360k → 14%YWCA: $2.5M → 17%PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $449k → 20%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR: $637k → 21%YWCA: $2.3M → 17%LITTLEFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $225k → 18%PANHANDLE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $439k → 20%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOOL DISTRICT: $520k → 21%FLOYDADA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $213k → 21%YWCA: $2.2M → 17%LITTLEFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST: $225k → 18%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOOL DISTRICT: $515k → 21%FLOYDADA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $188k → 21%YWCA: $2.2M → 17%LITTLEFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST: $207k → 18%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR: $507k → 21%YWCA: $2.0M → 17%LITTLEFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST: $199k → 18%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR: $500k → 21%YWCA: $2.0M → 17%LITTLEFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST: $196k → 18%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOOL DISTRICT: $495k → 21%YWCA: $1.9M → 17%LITTLEFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DIST: $190k → 18%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR: $466k → 21%YWCA: $1.9M → 17%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR: $459k → 21%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $269k → 16%SLATON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $269k → 17%BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR: $381k → 21%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI: $543k → 15%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $254k → 16%SLATON INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $265k → 17%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $227k → 16%SLATON ISD: $263k → 17%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI: $529k → 15%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $224k → 16%SLATON ISD: $219k → 17%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $210k → 16%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI: $474k → 15%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $207k → 16%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $200k → 16%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $448k → 15%MULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $200k → 16%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $400k → 15%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI: $371k → 15%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI: $342k → 15%LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI: $302k → 15%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.
$38M · 16 repeat orgs$111k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$38M
$111k

Still filing today

13%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +37% · 30% of their budget
  • BI
    BROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR
    9× · 2017–2025 · $4.5M
  • LI
    LEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.4M

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $60k
  • GC
    GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH OF TAHOKA
    one grant, 2024 · $33k
  • OI
    OLTON ISD
    one grant, 2017 · $18k
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
04the grantee network

2 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. 2 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $16,862,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCKBROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTR: $4,481,085 · OtherBROWNFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRLEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRI: $3,410,224 · OtherLEVELLAND INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIMULESHOE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $1,791,559 · OtherSlaton ISD: $1,651,392 · OtherLITTLEFIELD INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT: $1,585,178 · OtherFLOYDADA INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRIC: $1,367,406 · Other+11 more: $5,601,689 · Other+11 morePROJECT AMISTAD INC: $1,103,282 · Human Services
Other$36,750,533Human Services$1,103,282

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

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK: $16,862,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetPROJECT AMISTAD INC: $1,103,282 over 3y, 5.8% 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT AMISTAD 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Lubbock Economic Deve…
Lubbock Economic Development AllianceTX26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lubbock Economic Development Alliance

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 South Plains Community Action Assoc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Plains Community Action Assoc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 19 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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