Texas · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,849,062 to it, the largest being CH FOUNDATION INC ($1,149,450). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $608k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc does
Mission
The volunteer center of lubbock inspires a more engaged community by helping people find their purpose and act on it.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Through collaborative partnerships with 101 nonprofits, 38 secondary schools and college organizations, and 22 local businesses, the volunteer center strives to build a culture of service across the texas south plains and to develop the next generation of leaders. In 2025, 39,077 people benefitted from volunteer center service, leadership, and connection programs.
$421,364 spent$23,216 earned by the program100% of program spendingVolunteer service programs strive to involve people of all ages, races, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds in volunteer efforts that engage in service opportunities. In 2025, 22,565 people served 42,619 hours through our programming. Of that number, 21,038 were youth volunteers, documenting 39,988 hours of service. Additionally, 15,754 people were connected to service opportunities via fairs, presentations, and our volunteer portal, getconnected.
Leadership programs focus on developing leaders in all sectors of the community and on building the capacity of the nonprofit agencies who partner with the volunteer center. In 2025, 657 people benefited from leadership programs. The goal of these programs is to build a stronger leadership base throughout the south plains.
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $421,364.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.3M to $2.0M (−14%).
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: 2020 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Emily Smith
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $526k → $186k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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: $1.5M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Lubbock Area United Way Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC raised.
From the IRS filings of VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC’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
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 53% · 2018 56% · 2019 77% · 2020 72% · 2021 95% · 2022 74% · 2023 71% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $140 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.
Against its field
VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC is better cushioned than half of the 11,971 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,971 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC: 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 VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC?
- VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC (Texas) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,849,062 to it, the largest being CH FOUNDATION INC ($1,149,450). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,849,062 in grants to VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC?
- CH FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,149,450 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER CENTER OF LUBBOCK INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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