· Private foundation
George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ERICSON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $8,000 |
| LEONARD A GOOD COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $7,373 |
| MADRID PUBLIC LIBRARY | $4,000 |
| CITY OF MADRID PARK BOARD | $3,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOL | $2,833 |
| MADRID COMMUNITY SCHOOLS | $2,500 |
| CHILD CARE JUNCTION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| IOWA ARBORETUM | $2,138 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,885 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF DON WILLIAMS GOLF COURSE | $1,000 |
| ASCENSION PARISH | $950 |
| CITY OF BOONE RECREATION | $700 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CCCHILD CARE JUNCTION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +64%
- YAYOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC3× · 2018–2022 · $18k · revenue +110%
- IAIOWA ARBORETUM INC6× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- BCBOONE CITY PARKS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- OCOGDEN COMM SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- DFDMACC FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +62%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide a highly structured environment which emphasizes a safety and security to all juveniles while serving as a deterrent to criminal and anti-social behaviors. Working youth in the center and communities.
To inspire and enable all young people especially those who need us most to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.
Provide affordable child care services to residents of des moines and surrounding communities
Serving johnson county (iowa) youth ages 6 to 18 by providing 1:1 professionally supported mentorship
Provide childcare and high-quality programming for children in boone county.
To build the foundation of lifelong learning by promoting the power of play.
Youth services
Dedicated to acquiring, preserving,interpeting, and displaying the historical artifacts and records of Boone County.
To maintain, improve and restore 3 historical properties
Awareness among visitors and residents while fostering appreciation, preservation and conservation of the iowa great lakes regions unique culture, history, glacial geological formations, native species and natural habitats through…
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CHILD CARE JUNCTION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH AND SHELTER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds IOWA ARBORETUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ↗
- Who funds BOONE CITY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DMACC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOONE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MID-IOWA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds STAN FRIESEN SENIOR TRIP INC ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Paul and Grace E Lowrey Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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