Texas · Nonprofit
LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY
LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $157 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($157). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $157
- Net assets
- $282k
What Lubbock Gem and Mineral Society does
Mission
Our nonprofit provides comprehensive Earth Science Education programs. Through hands-on workshops field trips and workshop resources we aim to foster a deeper understanding and appreciation of the natural world. By offering these educational opportunities we empower future generations to become informed stewards of the environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Our nonprofit organization hosts monthly educational meetings for club members and guests with hands-on science projects show-and-tell creative competitions and door prizes. Additionally newsletters are distributed via email to keep the community informed. Workshops are held regularly to enhance learning opportunities. This service model benefits approximately 600 individuals annually through 48 engaging meetings and 12 informative newsletters.
$625 spent8% of program spendingOur annual event features a diverse range of activities including vendor stalls club member displays educational lectures and demonstrations of lapidary work. This two-day event serves approximately 1400 attendees providing a platform for learning appreciation of lapidary arts and fostering community engagement.
$6,956 spent92% of program spendingField trips. Educational field trips to find minerals fossils and rocks. Teaching geology and where to find certain mineral deposits. Approx. 120 people served 4 trips
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,581.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $243k to $282k (+16%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Dave Swartz
Club Workshop Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $15 → $37.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY’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.
Where its funders are
100% of LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $157 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY?
- LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $157 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($157). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $157 in grants to LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $157 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUBBOCK GEM AND MINERAL SOCIETY 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 1 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