· Private foundation
Lowe - Skilling Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| HIGHLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| THE LITERACY & LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC | $1,000 |
| THE BASCOM CORPORATION | $1,000 |
| HIGHLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $1,000 |
| TEXAS DPS TROOPERS FOUNDATION | $50 |
| MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION | $42 |
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 (FY21–24, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- THTEXAS HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +104%
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +44%- TBThe Bascom Corporation4× · 2021–2024 · $6k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- PEPRISON ENTERPRENEUR FUNDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TLThree Lakes Community Improvement Assoc DBA Pinecrest Community Improvement Asscone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
The texas medical association (tma), the nation's largest and one of the oldest state medical societies, represents over 59,000 physicians and medical students dedicated to enhancing the health of all texans. in collaboration with 110…
The austin humane society (ahs) offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them. because we believe homeless animals deserve a chance to thrive in a loving environment,…
To support the university of texas system
The texas tribune promotes civic engagement and public education across the state by producing and sharing for free public data interactives, statewide events and intensive and daily reporting on texas public policy, politics and current…
To support coastal conservation association in carrying out the charitable and educational purpose for which it was organized and is operated, namely, promoting and advancing the preservation, conservation and protection of marine, plant…
To support the university of texas system
The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.
The spca of texas is dedicated to providing every animal exceptional care and a loving home.
The texas hospital association's mission is to provide leadership in advocacy, information and education to enable texas hospitals to deliver superior, cost effective care which enhances the health care of individuals and their communities.
Preserve access to quality healthcare for all texans
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
To promote the playing and advancement of the royal and ancient game of golf in texas.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Texas Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Three Lakes Community Improvement Assoc Dba Pinecrest Community Improvement Assc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 30 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 TEXAS HERITAGE SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Three Lakes Community Improvement Assoc DBA Pinecrest Community Improvement Assc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Bascom Corporation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
- Who funds Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE AUSTIN ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX CENTER ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ALS ASSOCIATION-TEXAS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds TEXAS DPS TROOPERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF TEXAS INC ↗
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: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lowe - Skilling 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.