Texas · Nonprofit
Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech
Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,474 to it, the largest being Garrison Family Foundation ($159,386). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $713k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $213k
- Net assets
- $873k
What Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech does
Mission
Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech is a non-profit campus ministry dedicated to raising up generations of dynamic Christians through missions internships community outreach and religious study classes and training.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The Wesley at Texas Tech hosts a weekly worship service for approximately 150 local college students at its facility. These services are designed to foster spiritual growth among local college students and help them grow closer in their relationship with God. Every Thursday students from Texas Tech LCU and South Plains College gather to worship and be challenged as they listen to a sermon. These worship services are supplemented by student-led small groups coordinated by The Wesley that help students find community and connection with other students as well as learn more about Jesus. These weekly events help students experience spiritual growth during a critical time of thier lives.
$99,500 spentof which $41,000 as grants28% of program spendingThe Wesley is very intentional about developing leaders through its discipleship program. The Wesley has a student leadership team where regular mentorship serving experience and leadership opportunities are provided for students. The student leadership program is based on experiential learning where students are provided with regular opportunities to lead and serve others. The student leadership team goes on two retreats each year to help plan future Fall and Spring Semesters and connect with each other. The student leadership team overseas these areas of ministry at the Wesley: worship outreach community events intramurals spiritual formation and media. This program enriches the college experience of our students and helps them develop spiritually mentally and physically while learning how to serve and lead others. It also gives about 25 students per year an opportunity to discover if they may be called to full-time ministry.
$164,335 spentof which $88,182 as grants45% of program spendingThe Wesley dedicates a significant amount of time to student outreach during the week of Texas Tech Orientations and Welcome Week when new freshmen move to Texas Tech Campus. During Welcome Week The Wesley hosts close to 1,600 students at our weekly events that include an outdoor worship service as well as several other community outreach and fellowship events. These events are designed to give students especially freshmen who are away from home for the first time in their lives a chance to connect with other like-minded believers and support them in their spiritual journey. The Wesley will also host seasonal outreach events to continue to build relationships with college students throughout the semester. These big events are done in an effort to welcome new students to Lubbock and to help them get connected with a Jesus-focused community.
$97,701 spentof which $40,818 as grants27% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $361,536.
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 $648k to $878k (+36%).
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 11% · 2021 10% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Board chair
Zack Esgar
Board President
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $50k → $79k.
1 of 4 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.
From the IRS filings of Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech’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
Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $588 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
Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 12,816 religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,816 religion nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech?
- Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech (Texas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $213,474 to it, the largest being Garrison Family Foundation ($159,386). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $213,474 in grants to Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech?
- Garrison Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $159,386 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wesley Foundation at Texas Tech 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 4 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