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George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2025
14
Organizations funded FY2024
29%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$8,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$789k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving14$41k43%
FY202414$39k29%
FY202313$41k23%
FY202211$47k27%
FY202111$41k27%
FY20208$42k25%
FY201910$41k10%
FY201812$40k42%
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$210kHuman Services$50kPublic Benefit$27kRecreation & Sports$23kEnvironment$21kFood & Nutrition$8kArts & Culture$7kReligion$4kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Child Care Junction Inc$25,45391%
Youth and Shelter Services Inc$18,00030%
Iowa Arboretum Inc$15,54761%
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines$7,75020%
Boone City Parks Foundation$5,0001n/a
Dmacc Foundation$5,00010%
Madrid Performing Arts Council Inc$4,0002n/a
City of Ogden$3,0001n/a
Boone County Historical Society$3,0001n/a
Immanuel Lutheran Church$3,0001n/a
Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Child Care Junction Inc$25,45391%
Youth and Shelter Services Inc$18,00030%
Iowa Arboretum Inc$15,54761%
The Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Des Moines$7,75020%
Boone City Parks Foundation$5,0001n/a
Dmacc Foundation$5,00010%
Madrid Performing Arts Council Inc$4,0002n/a
City of Ogden$3,0001n/a
Boone County Historical Society$3,0001n/a
Immanuel Lutheran Church$3,0001n/a
Madrid Community Schools$2,5001n/a
Mid-Iowa Council of Boy Scouts of America Inc$2,00010%
Stan Friesen Senior Trip Inc$1,50011%
Friends of Don Williams Golf Course$1,0001n/a

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($271k), 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.

Leonard a Good Testamentary TrustIA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Leonard a Good Testamentary Trust · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation

How much does George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation give?
George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $40,879 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (57%), Human Services (14%), Public Benefit (7%).
Who are George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Child Care Junction Inc ($25k), Youth and Shelter Services Inc ($18k), Iowa Arboretum Inc ($16k).
Does George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Leonard a Good Testamentary Trust, Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn, Delta Dental of Iowa Foundation.
Where is George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation based?
George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation is based in IA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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