Massachusetts · Private foundation
Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $224k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 45
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 45
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 45% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 45 | $218k | 49% |
| FY2024 | 45 | $166k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $143k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $152k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $159k | 30% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $149k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $140k | 74% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowell Plan Inc | $77,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc | $72,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc | $68,884 | 5 | 0% |
| Lowell Public Schools | $63,250 | 3 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc | $44,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Town of Wilmington | $37,507 | 5 | n/a |
| Friends of Groton Elders Inc | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| North Andover Farmers Market Inc | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Community Teamwork Inc | $28,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc | $24,639 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($410k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 43 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: We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · The Saab Family Foundation · Demoulas Foundation · DCU for Kids · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc with peer funders
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About Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc reported 46 grants totaling $223,556 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 45 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (13%), Youth Development (13%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Lowell Plan Inc ($77k), Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc ($72k), Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc ($69k).
- Does Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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