· Private foundation
Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k39 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
Anchored by a single position — about 95% of reported assets are held in Lincoln Financial.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF LOWELL | $55,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NASHUA | $22,000 |
| GREENPATH FINANCIAL WELLNESS | $15,000 |
| NORTH ANDOVER FARMERS MARKET | $15,000 |
| GREATER MERRIMACK VALLEY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU | $10,000 |
| LOWELL COMMUNITY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE | $6,373 |
| KIDS IN DISABILITY SPORTS | $6,339 |
| LANTERN LIGHT FOUNDATION | $6,269 |
| GREATER LOWELL TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| GREATER LOWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,500 |
| TOWN OF TYNGSBOROUGH | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LOWELL YOUTH LACROSSE | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 86% 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 22 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC5× · 2019–2023 · $69k · revenue +103%
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc2× · 2024–2025 · $44k · revenue +18%
Community Teamwork Inc3× · 2019–2022 · $28k · revenue +132%
Funded once
THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +25%- JMJOSEPH MIDDLEMISS BIG HEART FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- OWONE WISH PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.
Provide low income elderly housing
Neighborworks housing solutions provides neighborhood revitalization through promoting, developing and maintaining affordable housing in southeastern massachusetts
Provide low cost housing
To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region. by raising awareness and providing resources for our communities, schools, civic and…
Provide low income elderly housing.
Low income housing for the handicapped.
The holding company for 615 Amherst St, Harbor Care's licensed residential treatment center for individuals and families living with substance use disorder.
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowell Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable 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 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 116 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.
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- Who funds TUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BANKERS ASSOCIATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NEWHOUSE WILDLIFE RESCUE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN DISABILITY SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE SERVICES 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: 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
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 Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Center for Hope & Healing Inc — 73% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc — 3% of income from government
- Lowell Plan Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc — 1% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc — 1% 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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