· Private foundation
Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER | $300,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $227,937 |
| ONE VOICE HOME | $210,000 |
| SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK | $200,000 |
| THE CITY CHURCH | $200,000 |
| THE WESLEY AT TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| LUBBOCK PUBLIC MEDIA | $150,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $131,000 |
| TEXAS GIRLS AND BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION | $126,511 |
| LUBBOCK WOMENS CLUB | $125,000 |
| BALLET LUBBOCK | $120,000 |
| LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS | $115,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK | $100,000 |
| ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL OF LUBBOCK | $86,662 |
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 (FY19–25, $823k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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 31% of Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust’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.
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 — 18 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $890k 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
- SPSOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +74%
- TGTEXAS GIRLS & BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +68% · 51% of their budget
- BLBALLET LUBBOCK8× · 2018–2025 · $755k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- BSBUILDING STRONG FAMILIES INCone grant, 2020 · $27k
- SPSouth Plains SPCAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +72%
- TOTHE OUTSIDE IN FESTIVALone grant, 2021 · $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 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.
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.
The Family Guidance & Outreach Center of Lubbock is dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and supporting, mentoring, and educating parents.
To financially contribute to the lubbock library system and promoting its many programs.
Raising funds to support the activities of lubbock christian university and to fund capital projects for instructional facilities for lubbock christian university.
To foster and promote educational, cultural and entertainment programs, to include the visual and performing arts, for the citizens of lubbock and the surrounding area.
The purpose of the lubbock symphony orchestra is to enrich the greater community we serve through quality symphonic performances and educational experiences.
Provide cultural and performing arts programs for our community.
The junior league of lubbock is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
The volunteer center of lubbock inspires a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it.
Trade Organization of Real Estate Professionals. Promoting the common interest of the Real Estate industry in Lubbock and the surrounding area. To help promote improvement of business conditions in this area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lubbock Area United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is High Point Village Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 35 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 SOUTH PLAINS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS GIRLS & BOYS RANCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BALLET LUBBOCK ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK WOMEN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE SPECTRUM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF THE SOUTH PLAINS INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH POINT VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK DREAM CENTER ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK AREA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ONE VOICE HOME ↗
- Who funds EARLY LEARNING CENTERS OF LUBBOCK INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES ADAMS STUDIO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS HERMANOS FAMILIA ↗
- Who funds LUBBOCK CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES TO LIFE ↗
- Who funds South Plains SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE LUBBOCK CHORALE ↗
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 · Helen Jones Foundation Inc · Diekemper Family Foundation Inc · HDS Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Mary L Livermore Foundation · Kuykendall Foundation · South Plains Foundation · Garrison Family Foundation · Sessions Family Foundation Inc · Asco 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 Welborn-Payne Endowment 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.