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South Plains Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k7 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $161k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $58,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $21,000 |
| HIGH POINT VILLAGE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CASA | $10,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| KINGDOM COME MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| LUBBOCK CHILDREN'S HEALTH CLINIC | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK | $10,000 |
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK | $10,000 |
| OPEN DOOR | $10,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF LUBBOCK | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +43% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2020, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- WPWOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +54%
- SPSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC2× · 2018–2020 · $28k · revenue +43%
- LDLUBBOCK DREAM CENTER3× · 2017–2020 · $26k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- LCLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +13%
- LCLUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY NURSINone grant, 2017 · $19k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
To provide victims of sexual assault in the lubbock county and surrounding area with free, confidential crisis advocacy, assistance, and support, and to promote public awareness of the realities of sexual victimization and strive toward…
The volunteer center of lubbock inspires a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it.
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…
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
The young women's christian association of lubbock is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
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.
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.
The mission of ballet lubbock is to change lives. as a pre-professional dance school, we enhance our community through premier dance training, performances, and outreach.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc and the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 59 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Ranching Heritage Association ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF LUBBOCK AND FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM COME MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHILDRENS HEALTH CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ALAMO AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BREEDLOVE FOODS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Alstrom Angels ↗
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 · Community Foundation of West Texas · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Kuykendall Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Caprock Foundation Inc · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · International Assoc of Lions Clubs
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 South Plains Foundation 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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