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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
HARVESTERS COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK$5,000
ANXIETY DEPRESSION ASSOC OF AMERICA$5,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
JOHNSON COUNTY CHRISTMAS BUREAU$2,000
DELLA LAMB COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
RI
MO
MD
KS
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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.…

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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…

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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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Homes for Our Troops Inc; 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 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. 9 of the 13 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · OtherNEW YORK PREBYTERIAN FUND INC: $5,000 · OtherFOOD BANK CENTRAL NORTHEAST MISSOUR: $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 ServicesSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · HealthANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANXIETY AND DEPRESSION ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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
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.

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.

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

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lowell P & W Jean Graves Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowell P & W Jean Graves Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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