· Public charity
United Way of Lea County Inc
To provide funding to local charitable organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $675,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $884,947 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $209,447 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $334k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CISSY FOOD MINISTRY | $73,601 |
| ISAIAHS SOUP KITCHEN INC | $73,182 |
| LEADERS INDUSTRIES | $58,567 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $52,983 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $51,839 |
| CASA OF LEA COUNTY | $49,030 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $44,594 |
| OPTION INC | $33,288 |
| LIGHT OF LEA COUNTY | $32,959 |
| OPPORTUNITY HOUSE | $30,028 |
| HEART'S DESIRE | $23,956 |
| PERMIAN BASIN COUNSELING & GUIDANCE | $23,361 |
| LEA COUNTY COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS | $21,299 |
| COMMUNITY DRUG COALITION | $19,603 |
| JUSTICE HOUSE | $19,568 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 18%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of United Way of Lea County Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NM; read by stated purpose it is 68% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- ISISAIAH'S SOUP KITCHEN8× · 2017–2024 · $626k · revenue +62% · 56% of their budget
- COCASA of Lea County8× · 2017–2024 · $553k · revenue +59%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOBBS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $454k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- LSLIVING SANCTUARIESone grant, 2022 · $13k
- COCITY OF HOBBSone grant, 2017 · $9k
- TPTHE PHOENIX HOUSE SEXUALone grant, 2022 · $7k
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.
Counseling services to individuals for substance abuse, domestic violence, general classes, anger management, day sessions, parenting classes, ged and other educational classes. supply clothing and food to needy.
To provide education, awareness and prevention information throughout the communities of Lea County and services such as forensic exams and advocacy, for victims/survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence, strangulation, child injury,…
To provide housing and independent living programs to those recovering from mental illness.
Christain Home
We provide a faith-based recovery program for men, women, and children who need help overcoming life's challenges.
Our mission is to eliminate family violence, stalking, child abuse, and sexual assault through advocacy, education, counseling, support and prevention services.
Provide emergency shelter care for adult persons and their children who are victims of domestic violence, and educate the community about the problems related to domestic violence is all its forms.
Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.
To promote a safer and healthier community by focusing on families and children.
Assisting and housing females in recovery
Hac advocates for those who are struggling with addiction and the families of those who struggle.we provide a broad range of services from substance abuse prevention, education, awareness, and treatment.hac also created serenity mesa…
Lifehouse offers a broad continuum of quality, holistic care for mental health and substance abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child & Family Services Inc of Lea County and the most unlike its peers is Unity Recovery Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 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 ISAIAH'S SOUP KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds CASA of Lea County ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOBBS INC ↗
- Who funds OPTION INC ↗
- Who funds CISSY FOOD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WHI HOBBS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HEARTS DESIRE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERS INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHT OF LEA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sheris House of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds LEA COUNTY COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MYPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds CONQUISTADOR COUNCIL BSA ↗
- Who funds WEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC OF LEA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DRUG COALITION OF LEA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL HOBBS ROTARY CLUB ↗
- Who funds AFFIRMING HEART VICTIM SERVICES ↗
- Who funds UNITY RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDANCE CENTER OF LEA COUNTY 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: JF Maddox Foundation · Project 40 31 Inc · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 United Way of Lea County Inc 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.