Connecticut · Private foundation
Low Road Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $7.4M
- Granted FY2022
- 53
- Itemized grants FY2022
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 73%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2022
- $6.6M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2022
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $1,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 51
- FY2020 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 6
- Total assets, FY2022
- $217M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 73% of the organizations Low Road Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 51 | $6.0M | 73% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $934k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Low Road Sharon, Inc | $1,500,000 | 1 | 50% |
| Philadelphia Museum of Art | $1,250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Save Sharon Hospital Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc | $575,000 | 2 | 5% |
| American Academy of Arts & Sciences | $500,000 | 1 | 2% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Academy of Arts and Letters | $250,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Northeast Community Center Inc | $35,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Art in General Inc | $31,393 | 1 | n/a |
| American Academy in Rome | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Low Road Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Ag Foundation · Easton Family Fund · Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Inc · The Cowles Charitable Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Arison Arts Foundation
How this is measured
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About Low Road Foundation
- How much does Low Road Foundation give?
- Low Road Foundation reported 53 itemized grants totaling $6,597,313, out of $7,421,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 51 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2022.
- What does Low Road Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2022, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (13%), Health (3%), Philanthropy (2%).
- Who are Low Road Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2022: Low Road Sharon, Inc ($1.5M), Philadelphia Museum of Art ($1.3M), Save Sharon Hospital Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Low Road Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 73% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Low Road Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Low Road Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Peter and Helen Haje Foundation, The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc.
- Where is Low Road Foundation based?
- Low Road Foundation is based in CT.
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