· Private foundation
Lowe 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 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT HOPE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| NEW LIFE PROJECT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| STUDENT MOBILIZATION | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 21% of Lowe Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 74%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PHPROJECT HOPE INC7× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue -2%
- JPJEREMIAH PROJECT3× · 2017–2019 · $48k · revenue -35% · 49% of their budget
- OOOUT OF THE ASHES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYone grant, 2021 · $15k
- OFOZARKS FOOD HARVEST INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +0%
- WAWYCLIFFE ASSOCIATES INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
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 help those struggling in a personal crisis find relief and disciple them into a christ-centered lifestyle through a ministry of reconciliation, applying the truth of scripture, working with others and sharing in fellowship with those…
Publicly supported evangelical organization focused on community transformation and empowerment of impoverished neighborhoods in South America and around the world. Missionaries work with community leaders assisting them in various mission…
To share the gospel of jesus christ through missions in central america, with emphasis in nicaragua and honduras.
Rescue ministry
Our mission is to share the Gospel and provide humanitarian support to the underprivileged, utilizing both mass media and direct, on-the-ground efforts in Africa and Asia.
Biblical counseling
The organizations mission is to provide outreach services for hygiene and mental wellness.
Foreign missions and services
Christian ministry work
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 18 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 PROJECT HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OUT OF THE ASHES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OZARKS FOOD HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds LANE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds COPE ↗
- Who funds OZARKS REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN NOW ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lowe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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