Lubbock Area United Way Inc
Lubbock, TX · EIN 75-0961812. Reported 119 grants totalling $19.6M to 25 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Lubbock Area United Way Inc, the IRS classifies it as a federated giving programme -- a United Way, Jewish federation, Community Chest or similar (NTEE T70Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 25 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 100% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $134,694. Half of what it reported fell between $103,120 and $184,530; the smallest was $56,195 and the largest $642,577. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State Employee Charitable Campaign | Lubbock, TX | $2,751,193 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Early Learning Center of Lubbock Inc | Lubbock, TX | $2,033,790 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lubbock Boys and Girls Club Inc | Lubbock, TX | $1,114,091 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Young Womens Christian Association of Lubbock Texas Inc | Lubbock, TX | $1,104,428 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Salvation Army | Lubbock, TX | $930,249 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Guadalupe-Parkway Neighborhood Center of Lubbock Inc | Lubbock, TX | $910,041 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lubbock Childrens Health Clinic | Lubbock, TX | $907,317 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Volunteer Center of Lubbock Inc | Lubbock, TX | $870,082 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Family Legal Services of the South Plains | Lubbock, TX | $843,199 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Communities in Schools of the South Plains | Lubbock, TX | $718,912 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Lubbock | Lubbock, TX | $708,302 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Family Service Association of Lubbock Texas | Lubbock, TX | $708,050 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Parenting Cottage Inc | Lubbock, TX | $657,568 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Lubbock Rape Crisis Center Inc | Lubbock, TX | $632,766 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Womens Protective Services of Lubbock Inc | Lubbock, TX | $559,998 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Childrens Advocacy Center of the South Plains Texas Inc | Lubbock, TX | $521,344 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Lubbock Inc | Lubbock, TX | $519,764 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| CASA of the South Plains Inc | Lubbock, TX | $498,371 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Boy Scouts of America | Lubbock, TX | $477,146 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| South Plains Chapter of the American Red Cross | Lubbock, TX | $475,736 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Goodwill Industries of Lubbock Inc | Lubbock, TX | $446,838 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| West Texas Girl Scout Council Inc | Lubbock, TX | $431,680 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Literacy Lubbock | Lubbock, TX | $376,950 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Lutheran Social Service of the South Inc | Austin, TX | $318,195 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Girl Scouts of Texas Oklahoma Plains Inc | Fort Worth, TX | $97,768 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
24 of 25 (96%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- State Employee Charitable Campaign
LOCAL CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR THE STATE EMPLOYEE CHARITABLE CAMPAIGN (SECC). - Early Learning Centers of Lubbock Inc
TO PROVIDE DEVELOPMENTAL CHILDCARE PROGRAM ACTIVITIES TO MEET PHYSICAL, EMOTIONAL, SOCIAL AND COGNITIVIE NEEDS OF CHILDREN REGARDLESS OF FAMILY INCOME. - Boys and Girls Club of Lubbock
TO PROVIDE A SAFE AND POSITIVE PLACE FOR CHILDREN. - Young Women's Christian Association of Lubbock
TO PROVIDE ACTIVITIES TO ENRICH THE LIVES OF CHILDREN IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT AND MEET THE NEED FOR QUALITY AFFORDABLE CHILDCARE AFTER SCHOOL HOURS AND DURING SCHOOL BREAKS. - YWCA of Lubbock
1. PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING AFTER-SCHOOL AND SUMMER CARE; 2. PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH; 3. PROGRAM SUPPORT FOR THE CDA ACCELERATOR PROGRAM; 4. PROGRAM SUPPORT TO RAISEAWARENESS OF SOCIAL SERVICES FOR THE COMMUNITY. - The Salvation Army
COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE AND PROVIDED SHELTER AND FOOD TO THE NEEDY AND HOMELESS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 15 of 25 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 24 | $4,166,942 | $142,606 |
| 2022 | 24 | $4,063,402 | $137,090 |
| 2023 | 24 | $4,057,946 | $140,012 |
| 2024 | 24 | $3,861,858 | $140,012 |
| 2025 | 23 | $3,463,630 | $121,698 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $134,694 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Texas.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Lubbock Area United Way Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 23 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1655 Main Street 101, Lubbock, TX, 79401.
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