· Private foundation
SS Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $147k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $107k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| High Point Village | $57,425 |
| Lubbock Dream Center | $50,000 |
| Lubbock Symphony Orchestra | $40,000 |
| Texas Tech School of Music | $30,000 |
| Methodist Children's Home | $25,000 |
| Texas Tech Foundation | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Lubbock Impact | $10,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Abiline | $5,000 |
| Parkridge | $5,000 |
| West Texas ALS Support Group | $3,000 |
| Stick Horses and Capes | $2,500 |
| Texas NF Foundation | $2,500 |
| Science Spectrum | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HPHIGH POINT VILLAGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $618k · revenue +43% · 37% of their budget
- TTTEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $313k · revenue +68%
- LSLUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- SVStar Valley Health Charitable Foundone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TTTexas Tech Univ - Big Cureone grant, 2024 · $20k
- TSTTUHSC - School of Medicineone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
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.
Lubbock christian university is a christ-centered, academic community of learners, transforming the hearts, minds, and hands of students for lives of purpose and service.
Raising funds to support the activities of lubbock christian university and to fund capital projects for instructional facilities for lubbock christian university.
The ywca of lubbock legacy fund inc. is dedicated to meeting the needs of the ywca of lubbock in supporting the community through its mission of eliminating racism, empowering women, and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for…
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Provide quality primary and preventataive health care services to those in need.
The young women's christian association of lubbock is dedicated to eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all.
Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.
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.
To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
Provide cultural and performing arts programs for our community.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds METHODIST CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARALLEL RESOURCE CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHAMBER ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS ALS SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds STICK HORSES AND CAPES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds CUSH EMPOWERMENT GROUP ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS CHILDREN'S CHORUS ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ch Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of West Texas · C and a McDonald Family Foundation · The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust · Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization SS Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SS Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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