Oklahoma · Private foundation
Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $18k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,743
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,743
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 1 | $18k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $1.8M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $75k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $124k | 46% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $87k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $98k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $99k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $83k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Young Scholars of Bartlesville Inc | $1,260,797 | 2 | 76% |
| Grace Community Church | $87,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Spirit Church | $87,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tri County Technology Center | $39,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Paths to Independence Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Bartlesville Education Promise | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bartlesville Public Schools Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Oklahoma Wesleyan University | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Westside Community Association | $5,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Washington County School Supply Drive Inc | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($825k), not named here.
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Lyon Foundation · Bartlesville Community Foundation · Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation · Arvest Foundation · K S Adams Foundation Co-Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education
- How much does Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education give?
- Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education reported 1 grants totaling $17,743 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (80%), Religion (7%), Youth Development (2%).
- Who are Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Young Scholars of Bartlesville Inc ($1.3M), Grace Community Church ($87k), Spirit Church ($87k).
- Does Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Lyon Foundation, Bartlesville Community Foundation, Jeanalee and Charles Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education based?
- Barry W Lowe and Karen Sue Lowe Foundation for Education is based in OK.
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