· Public charity
Lowell Sun Charities Inc
Raise funds for charitable causes as well as needy families in the greater lowell area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $35,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $179,524 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $144,524 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL | $18,000 |
| GREATER LOWELL COMMUNITY FOUNDATON | $9,500 |
| LOWELL PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | $7,500 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +30%- MCMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE4× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +283%
- PLPROJECT LEARN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $18k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- SASEE A NEW SUN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TLTHE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -8%
- TMTHE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +22%
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.
Lowell community health center's mission is to provide caring, quality, and culturally competent health services to the people of greater lowell, regardless of their financial status; to reduce health disparities and enhance the health of…
To sustain and enhance lowell observatory's mission of research and education by generating perpetual financial support.
Lowell telecommunication corporation's mission is to strengthen the city of lowell as a community media and education center that empowers, connects, and informs all residents, businesses, and organizations in the city. ltc provides…
To provide a significant unified voice in shaping the future growth of the business communities which it serves and to provide a vehicle through which individuals can work to improve the area's business climate and quality of life. A…
Lowell makes is a collection of open workshops and laboratories where members and students can collaborate to learn, share, and hone crafts of all kinds. the focus is on providing a space for education, entrepreneurship, and engagement…
Our mission, vision and values are our guiding light. together, we bring them to life with our care, our actions, our learning and our commitment to excellence.at tufts medicine, we know the power of community. it's that feeling of being…
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…
To improve the quality of life for the people of lowell through education and through the creation, conservation, and preservation of parks, open spaces, and special places.
Raise funds for charitable causes as well as needy families in the greater lowell area.
The greater lowell family ymca's mission is to strengthen our community by supporting youth development, healthy living and social responsibility for all through programs influenced by our core values of caring, honesty, respect and…
To create an inclusive community of life-long learners in which each individual is valued and respected. our charge, then, is to strengthen minds, ensure equity, and honor individuality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is See a New Sun 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.
12 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. 12 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.
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.
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds Lowell Plan Inc ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEE A NEW SUN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
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: Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Demoulas Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Lowell General Hospital · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Marty Meehan Educational Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
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 Sun Charities 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.
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Lowell Festival Foundation — 12% 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
- Lowell Plan Inc — 2% 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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