· Private foundation
The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $155k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS | $40,000 |
| SILENT WINGS MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK | $15,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| LUBBOCK IMPACT | $10,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS CENTRAL TEXAS | $9,000 |
| TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST | $8,000 |
| LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| HOUSTON FOOD BANK | $4,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $274k · revenue +14%
- SPSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $202k · revenue +31%
- RFRETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST9× · 2017–2025 · $161k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- SASHARP ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $100k
- YWYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCKone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -35%
- SPSOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +24%
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 WTFB exists to collect, purchase, and distribute food to feed the hungry in 19 counties in West Texas in partnership with volunteers and community organizations and to educate these partners and the public at large about the real face…
To procure and distribute nutritional food to qualified agencies that feed the hungry of West Central Texas.
To alleviate hunger in the immediate service area through the distribution of food products donated by the usda, feeding america, area grocery stores, etc. which are distributed to the needy by way of area food banks and other qualified…
To lead a unified effort for a hunger-free texas.
The High Plains Food Bank exists to help solve the issue of hunger and food insecurity in the Texas Panhandle.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
Food distribution to the hungry throughout an eight county service territory in Southeast Texas.
Giving people hope. working to address the root issues of the significant challenges facing our south plains communities to create lasting, positive change.
To alleviate hunger by distributing food to families who are food deprived through a network of volunteers and other agencies within Hays County.
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.
See Schedule OFort Bend Seniors Meals on Wheels provides comprehensive services, including Meals on Wheels, congregate meals, transportation, case management, health screenings, information and referral services, recreation, and more. Our…
Goodwill is a local nonprofit helping people overcome challenges, build skills, find jobs and grow careers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Girls and Boys Ranch and the most unlike its peers is Silent Wings Museum Foundation Inc. 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 43 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% 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 17% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 31 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 TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PLAINS COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Silent Wings Museum Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LORETO HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF RIO GRANDE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Lovepacs ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH ↗
- Who funds THE JOURNEY TO DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Toolbank USA Inc ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROTECTIVE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SCURRY COUNTY MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES MISSION INC ↗
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 · Texas Instruments Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation · Community Foundation of West Texas · International Assoc of Lions Clubs · South Plains Foundation · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · Ershel Franklin Charitable Trust · Xcel Energy Foundation · Lubbock Osteopathic Fund Inc · Daji 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 The Evelyn M Davies Foundation Trust 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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