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Lowell P & W Jean Graves Family Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$30k
Granted FY2017
8
Grants FY2017
5
States reached
$8k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Lowell P & W Jean Graves Family Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Lowell P & W Jean Graves Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $30k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
17
2
18
0
19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172019.

Philanthropy$600kHealth$18kHuman Services$14kFood & Nutrition$10kReligion$5kHousing & Shelter$2k
02FY2017 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARY'S CANCER CENTER CAMPAIGN$8,000
NEW YORK PREBYTERIAN FUND INC$5,000
ANXIETY DEPRESSION ASSOC OF AMERICA$5,000
HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$5,000
JOHNSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS BUREAU$2,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ZERO TO THREE: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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MA
RI
MO
MD
KS
DC
FL

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.

03Your 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.

1
The Greater Detroit Health Transition Company

Gdahc mission: together with our partners, we empower and improve the health and economic vitality of individuals, organizations and communities by catalyzing the power of collaboration. gdahc vision: healthy people. healthy community.…

2
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
3
Manhattan Community Health Foundation

To promote health in the manhattan, kansas community and the surrounding areas in a manner not inconsistent with the mission of via christi hospital of manhattan, kansas bydeveloping and maintaining initiatives in private fundraising,…

Philanthropy
4
Kapi'olani Medical Specialists

Kapi'olani medical specialists (dba hawai'i pacific health medical group) is a multispecialty provider group dedicated to providing world-class care for adults and children across hawai'i and the pacific region working in partnership with…

Health
5
Nuvance Health

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
6
Vna Corporation

The vna corporation is a charitable, community-oriented organization dedicated to providing high quality home care and related medical and social services to individuals in the metropolitan kansas city area and the 17 surrounding counties.…

Health
7
Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, banner health foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient…

Health
8
Latino Corporate Directors Association

Lcda serves as an advocate and resource to corporate boards, search firms, private equity, and institutional investors interested in gaining access to exceptional latino board talent.

Education
9
Integrated Healthcare Association

Iha's mission is to bring the healthcare community together to solve industry-wide challenges that stand in the way of high-value care. as a non-profit industry association, we use objective data, our decades of expertise, and our unique…

10
Bionexus Kc

We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…

Science & Tech
11
Chamber of Commerce of Greater Kansas City

Leading the way to the best kc region by convening innovative leaders, collaborating with like-minded organizations, advocating for positive change, and helping small businesses grow.

12
Clinical Health Network for Transformation Inc

Chn's mission is to provide support services for chn members to allow members to focus on their missions of providing superior patient care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc and the most unlike its peers is Zero to Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $299,485 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAMGreater Horizons — $299,484 · PhilanthropyGreater Horizons+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropyST MARY'S CANCER CENTER CAMPAIGN — $8,000 · OtherFOOD BANK CENTRAL NORTHEAST MISSOUR — $5,000 · OtherNEW YORK PREBYTERIAN FUND INC — $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherJOHNSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS BUREAU — $2,000 · OtherZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES — $10,000 · Human ServicesANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · HealthHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK — $5,000 · Food & NutritionHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $2,000 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$599,969Other$22,000Human Services$10,000Health$10,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Housing & Shelter$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGreater Horizons — $299,484 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS BUREAU — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Lowell P & W Jean Graves Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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