· Private foundation
Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| LOWELL COMMUNITY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| GREATER MERRIMACK VALLEY CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU | $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 |
| LOWELL YOUTH LACROSSE | $5,000 |
| NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HAVERHILL | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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
How this is measured
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 HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +37%- JMJOSEPH MIDDLEMISS BIG HEART FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue 0%
- OWONE WISH PROJECTone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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.
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 116 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.
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- Who funds Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc ↗
- 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 SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds Lamprey Health Care Inc ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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