How much did LOWE - SKILLING FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 82% of LOWE - SKILLING FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

highlands

2022

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2023

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2024

highlandperforming arts

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$521k

Total assets

Largest grants

TEXAS PERFORMING ARTS$5,000
HIGHLAND COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
FRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER$2,500
THE LITERACY & LEARNING CENTER$1,000
THE BASCOM CORPORATION$1,000
HIGHLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER$1,000
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC$1,000
TEXAS DPS TROOPERS FOUNDATION$50
MARINE CORPS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$42

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $700) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$65k · 10 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$65k

$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+54%

Still filing today

70%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

AnimalsRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCrime & LegalOther

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

THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +213%
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RABUN GAP-NACOOCHEE SCHOOL
2× · 2021–2022 · $2k · revenue +42%
CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK
2× · 2021–2022 · $800 · revenue +49%

Funded once

PE
PRISON ENTERPRENEUR FUND
one grant, 2020 · $25k
TL
THREE LAKE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $10k
FO
FRIENDS OF AUSTIN
one grant, 2021 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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 University of Texas Law School

Provide support to the University of Texas School of Law.

Education

The McCombs School of Business

To provide support to The University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Education

The Humane Society of Austin & Travis

The austin humane society offers comprehensive, humane, life-saving animal services, transforming the lives of animals and those who love them.

Animals

The University of Texas Foundation No 1

To support the university of texas system.

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Texas Police Association

Provide education and support to texas law enforcement officers and agencies

Unclassified

Texas Police Athletic Federation

The texas police games are competitive events that enable commissioned police officers the opportunity to compete with fellow police officers from the state of texas as well as on a nationwide level.

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Austin Cops for Charities

To enhance community relations with austin police officers and the local community by supporting local charitable agencies. in addition, to support austin police officers and their families in times of need.

Crime & Legal

Texas a&M Foundation

Fundraising and asset management for the benefit of texas a&m university at college station.

Education

The Texas Golf Association

The texas golf association is one of the largest and most respected golf associations in the country, with an ongoing commitment of ensuring that the top resources and most dependable staff are in place to meet current and future needs of…

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The University of Texas Foundation No 2

To support the university of texas system.

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Texas Medical Association

Empowering texas physicians in the practice of medicine.

—

Texas a&M-Corpus Christi Foundation

For the benefit of texas a&m university - corpus christi

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Child Protection and the most unlike its peers is The Bascom Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

17/17

Grantees still filing

14/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$97,450Animals$8,500Arts & Culture$5,942Education$3,420Philanthropy$1,000Food & Nutrition$800Recreation & Sports$750

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.

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.

Austin Community Foundation IncTX13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Austin Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 205687086 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FRIENDS OF AUSTIN ANIMAL CENTER, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lowe - Skilling Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lowe - Skilling Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LOWE - SKILLING FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lowe - Skilling Foundation?

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LOWE - SKILLING FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lowe - Skilling Foundation?

More from the funding graph