· Private foundation
Lowen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $27,500 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $16,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH AM | $10,230 |
| HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOC OF WA STATE | $5,176 |
| ARTS FUND | $5,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON | $5,000 |
| HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| URJ CAMP KALSMAN | $4,000 |
| NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION | $3,800 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $3,500 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $3,000 |
| FRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCH CENTER | $3,000 |
| CCF CAMBODIAN CHILDRENS FUND | $2,800 |
| FARESTART | $2,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $90k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +80% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
- JFJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +107%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +46%
- AARTSFUND7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +359%
Funded once
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +110%- HRHUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF TEXASone grant, 2018 · $3k
- LAListen and Talkgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $800 · revenue +71%
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.
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.
The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.
To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights by supporting the aclu-wa foundation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found and the most unlike its peers is Maris Place. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 54 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 JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found ↗
- Who funds College Success Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTSFUND ↗
- Who funds Holocaust Center For Humanity ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER HAMILTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Maris Place ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS WITHOUT A BORDER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds King County Sexual Assault Resource Center ↗
- Who funds Kline Galland Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE PUBLIC MEDIA ↗
- Who funds SEATTLE THEATRE GROUP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE ↗
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: Seattle Foundation · United Way of King County · Lott Foundation · Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle · Moccasin Lake Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Sheri and Les Biller Family Foundation · Grousemont Foundation · The Norcliffe 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 Lowen 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Lowen Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Lowen Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.