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United Way of Lea County Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

United Way of Lea County Inc

To provide funding to local charitable organizations.

$885k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$74k
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 2024.

Human Services$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MYouth Development$600kCrime & Legal$598kHealth$439kHousing & Shelter$381kArts & Culture$88kReligion$75kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 21 grants below total $675,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $884,947 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $209,447 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $334k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $310k
$23,956
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 18%OPTION INC: $76k → 19%CISSY FOOD MINISTRY: $74k → 19%CISSY FOOD MINISTRY: $73k → 19%OPTION INC: $66k → 19%OPTION INC: $66k → 19%CISSY FOOD MINISTRY: $63k → 19%OPTION INC: $61k → 19%LEADERS INDUSTRIES: $59k → 19%CISSY FOOD MINISTRY: $56k → 19%OPTION INC: $51k → 19%LEADERS INDUSTRIES: $47k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $47k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $46k → 19%OPTION INC: $44k → 19%OPTION INC: $42k → 19%WEEKEND HUNGER INITIATIVE: $41k → 19%WHI HOBBS: $37k → 19%LEADERS: $35k → 19%WEEKEND HUNGER INITIATIVE: $35k → 19%WEEKEND HUNGER INITIATIVE: $34k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $34k → 19%OPTION INC: $33k → 19%LEADERS: $31k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $30k → 19%WHI HOBBS: $27k → 19%WHI HOBBS: $26k → 19%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $26k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $24k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $24k → 19%WHI HOBBS: $22k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $21k → 19%LEADERS: $20k → 19%OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $18k → 19%FAITH IN ACTION: $18k → 19%WHI HOBBS: $18k → 19%CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $15k → 19%FAITH IN ACTION: $12k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $11k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $8k → 19%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $7k → 19%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 34% of United Way of Lea County Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NM; by stated purpose, 68%.

United Way of Lea County Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 24 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
5

Total granted

$4.5M
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+691%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • IS
    ISAIAH'S SOUP KITCHEN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $626k · revenue +62% · 56% of their budget
  • CO
    CASA of Lea County
    8× · 2017–2024 · $553k · revenue +59%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOBBS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $454k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • LS
    LIVING SANCTUARIES
    one grant, 2022 · $13k
  • CO
    CITY OF HOBBS
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • TP
    THE PHOENIX HOUSE SEXUAL
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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

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.

1
Hope House Inc

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.

Health
2
The Phoenix House Sexual Assault & Domestic Violence Resource Center

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,…

Crime & Legal
3
Therapeutic Living Services Inc

To provide housing and independent living programs to those recovering from mental illness.

Human Services
4
Christian Home of Pecos

Christain Home

Crime & Legal
5
Las Cruces Gospel Rescue Mission

We provide a faith-based recovery program for men, women, and children who need help overcoming life's challenges.

Housing & Shelter
6
Help in Crisis Inc

Our mission is to eliminate family violence, stalking, child abuse, and sexual assault through advocacy, education, counseling, support and prevention services.

Human Services
7
La Casa Inc

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.

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8
Consejo Counseling & Referral Service

Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.

Health
9
Families and Youth Inc

To promote a safer and healthier community by focusing on families and children.

Human Services
10
House of Hope

Assisting and housing females in recovery

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11
Healing Addiction in Our Community- Hac

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…

Health
12
Carlsbad Lifehouse Inc

Lifehouse offers a broad continuum of quality, holistic care for mental health and substance abuse.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child & Family Services Inc of Lea County; 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.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPTION INC: $438,461 · Human ServicesOPTION INCCISSY FOOD MINISTRY: $266,134 · Human ServicesCISSY FOOD MINISTRYOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC: $244,852 · Human ServicesOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INCWHI HOBBS INC: $240,469 · Human ServicesWHI HOBBS INCLEADERS INDUSTRIES INC: $191,585 · Human ServicesLEADERS INDUSTRIES INCLIGHT OF LEA COUNTY: $121,847 · Human ServicesLIGHT OF LEA COUNTYMYPOWER INC: $61,159 · Human Services+4 more: $154,079 · Human Services+4 moreCASA of Lea County: $553,429 · Crime & LegalCASA of Lea Coun…Sheris House of Hope Inc: $112,009 · Crime & LegalSheris House of …+1 more: $6,150 · Crime & LegalISAIAH'S SOUP KITCHEN: $626,110 · ReligionISAIAH'S SOUP K…GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $235,887 · Housing & ShelterGREATER ALB…HEARTS DESIRE INC: $219,970 · Housing & ShelterHEARTS DESI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOBBS INC: $454,015 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…THE SALVATION ARMY: $318,760 · OtherTHE SALVATION…CONQUISTADOR COUNCIL BSA: $54,732 · OtherCONQUISTADOR …GIRL SCOUTS: $30,195 · OtherGIRL SCOUTSLEA COUNTY COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS INC: $88,146 · OtherLEA COUNTY CO…LITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $27,603 · Other+4 more: $36,247 · Other+4 moreWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE: $49,201 · HealthCOMMUNITY DRUG COALITION OF LEA COUNTY: $35,628 · HealthUNITY RECOVERY INC: $6,000 · HealthGUIDANCE CENTER OF LEA COUNTY INC: $5,114 · Health
Human Services$1,718,586Crime & Legal$671,588Religion$626,110Housing & Shelter$455,857Youth Development$454,015Other$555,683Health$95,943

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetISAIAH'S SOUP KITCHEN: $626,110 over 8y, 56% of budgetCASA of Lea County: $553,429 over 8y, 20% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HOBBS INC: $454,015 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetOPTION INC: $438,461 over 8y, 18% of budgetCISSY FOOD MINISTRY: $266,134 over 4y, 97% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE INC: $244,852 over 8y, 15% of budgetWHI HOBBS INC: $240,469 over 8y, 29% of budgetGREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $235,887 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetHEARTS DESIRE INC: $219,970 over 8y, 13% of budgetLEADERS INDUSTRIES INC: $191,585 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetLIGHT OF LEA COUNTY: $121,847 over 7y, 37% of budgetSheris House of Hope Inc: $112,009 over 3y, 19% of budgetLEA COUNTY COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS INC: $88,146 over 6y, 63% of budgetMYPOWER INC: $61,159 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCONQUISTADOR COUNCIL BSA: $54,732 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWEST TEXAS COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE: $49,201 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $44,390 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC OF LEA COUNTY: $41,293 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUSTICE HOUSE: $38,367 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY DRUG COALITION OF LEA COUNTY: $35,628 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION INC: $30,029 over 2y, 14% of budgetLITERACY COALITION OF THE PERMIAN BASIN: $27,603 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL HOBBS ROTARY CLUB: $8,378 over 1y, 11% of budgetAFFIRMING HEART VICTIM SERVICES: $6,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITY RECOVERY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 20% 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 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 ↗

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.

JF Maddox FoundationProject 40 31 IncCon Alma Health Found…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
JF Maddox FoundationNM38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: JF Maddox Foundation · Project 40 31 Inc · Con Alma Health Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 United Way of Lea County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Lea County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 31 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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