Texas · Nonprofit
BUDDY HOLLY HALL
BUDDY HOLLY HALL (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,979,025 to it, the largest being HELEN JONES FOUNDATION INC ($24,586,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $26M
- Net assets
- $95M
What Buddy Holly Hall does
Mission
Buddy Holly Hall, formerly known as lubbock entertainment and performing arts association (lepaa), a texas non-profit corporation, envisions a community where every person experiences the transformative power of the arts. Buddy Holly Hall builds community through extraordinary experiences, creative collaboration, and inclusive access to the arts, entertainment, and education. Buddy Holly Hall's values dictate that we treat others as we would like to be treated, foster the economic vitality of our region, operate sustainably and efficiently in all endeavors, and build stakeholder engagement throughout our community.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Buddy Holly Hall brought more than 250,000 visitors to downtown lubbock: 115 commercial productions in helen devitt jones theater; 181 events in crickets theater.
$13,205,592 spent$4,068,285 earned by the program100% of program spendingBuddy Holly Hall held its fourth annual buddy holly songwriters retreat and concert in 2024. Thirty aspiring songwriters from across texas, us, uk, and new zealand participated in the retreat. The songwriters met in small groups to collaborate with professional mentors through the creative process of songwriting. A showcase concert was held to debut the best songs written during the retreat and provided performers on-stage experiences.
$41,482 spent$15,000 earned by the program0% of program spendingThe kodaly institute symposium workshop provides professional development and internationally-acclaimed music education instruction to the 70 area professionals.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,247,074.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $90M to $136M (+52%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 12% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
44% of BUDDY HOLLY HALL’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jeff Hunsinger
CEO
Board chair
Daniel Pope
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $7.6M → $8.0M.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $79k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Community Foundation of West Texas). These are real filings, and they are not money BUDDY HOLLY HALL raised.
From the IRS filings of BUDDY HOLLY HALL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BUDDY HOLLY HALL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 81% · 2020 90% · 2021 50% · 2022 89% · 2023 93% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
42% of BUDDY HOLLY HALL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
99% of BUDDY HOLLY HALL's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $755k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BUDDY HOLLY HALL has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BUDDY HOLLY HALL
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
20%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BUDDY HOLLY HALL?
- BUDDY HOLLY HALL (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,979,025 to it, the largest being HELEN JONES FOUNDATION INC ($24,586,250). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BUDDY HOLLY HALL have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $25,979,025 in grants to BUDDY HOLLY HALL, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BUDDY HOLLY HALL?
- HELEN JONES FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $24,586,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BUDDY HOLLY HALL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing