Texas · Private foundation
Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.8M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $115,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $69M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $2.8M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $1.8M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $1.8M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $1.4M | 11% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.5M | 6% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $1.4M | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Plains Food Bank Inc | $1,815,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Texas Tech Foundation Inc | $1,190,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Texas Girls & Boys Ranch Foundation | $1,130,619 | 9 | 51% |
| Ballet Lubbock | $755,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Lubbock Meals on Wheels Inc | $730,718 | 9 | 4% |
| Community Health Center of Lubbock Inc | $705,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Lubbock Women's Club | $605,000 | 9 | 16% |
| Science Spectrum Inc | $525,258 | 5 | 7% |
| Casa of the South Plains Inc | $410,000 | 8 | 4% |
| High Point Village Inc | $365,000 | 7 | 4% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 · 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
How this is measured
About Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust
- How much does Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust give?
- Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust reported 26 grants totaling $2,834,370 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Human Services (19%), Food & Nutrition (17%).
- Who are Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: South Plains Food Bank Inc ($1.8M), Texas Tech Foundation Inc ($1.2M), Texas Girls & Boys Ranch Foundation ($1.1M).
- Does Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ch Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of West Texas, Helen Jones Foundation Inc.
- Where is Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust based?
- Welborn-Payne Endowment Trust is based in TX.
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