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Lowdon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $448k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION | $98,000 |
| NEXUS RECOVERY CENTER | $50,000 |
| FORT WORTH ZOO | $50,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $50,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CHURCH WARDENS OF ST MATTHIAS | $10,000 |
| BATH & TENNIS HISTORIC BLDG PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENTS CURRAN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST ANN PLACE OUTREACH CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $50 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
19 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- TSThe Society of the Four Arts Inc6× · 2017–2025 · $148k · revenue +720%
- NCNATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC4× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +276%
- TCTexas Cultural Trust Council5× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- HPHIGHLAND PARK PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $45k
- FOFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INCone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -45%
- TPTHE PINE COVE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue ×167
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maureen Connolly Brinker Tennis Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COWGIRL MUSEUM AND HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds Nexus Recovery Center Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTRALIAN UNIVERSITIES & SCHOOLS USA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Cultural Trust Council ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINE COVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAUREEN CONNOLLY BRINKER TENNIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds Van Cliburn Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE ↗
- Who funds RIVERTREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Advanced Security Training Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CRYSTAL CHARITY BALL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Ben E Keith Foundation Trust Xxxxx0005 · Thomas M Helen McKee & John P Ryan Fo John P Ryan Foundation Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Bnsf Railway Foundation · Tj Brown & Ca Lupton Foundation · Winn-Dunaway Family Foundation · The Bratton Family Foundation · Adeline & George McQueen Foundation Xxxxx1007 · Leo Potishman Foundation Xxxxx3002 · James and Dorothy Doss Foundation Inc · Lee Ann and Steven Van Amburgh Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Lowdon Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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