How much does Lowen Family Foundation give?

Lowen Family Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $123,810 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Lowen Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (13%), Religion (13%), Human Services (11%).

Who are Lowen Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Beth Am ($108k), Jewish Family Service ($90k), American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found ($56k).

Does Lowen Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Lowen Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Lowen Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, United Way of King County, Lott Foundation.

Where is Lowen Family Foundation based?

Lowen Family Foundation is based in WA.

Lowen Family Foundation

Lowen Family Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$124k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$28k

Largest

01What it funds

0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$132kReligion$126kHuman Services$114kCivil Rights$104kArts & Culture$99kInternational$95kRecreation & Sports$51kHealth$32kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $70k
$10k–50k3 grants · $54k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.9M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
ACLU FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON	$5,000
ARTS FUND	$5,000
HOLOCAUST CENTER FOR HUMANITY	$5,000
URJ CAMP KALSMAN	$4,000
NEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION	$3,800
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE	$3,500
FRED HUTCH CANCER RESEARCH CENTER	$3,000
NORTHWEST HARVEST	$3,000
CCF CAMBODIAN CHILDRENS FUND	$2,800
CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY	$2,000
HILLEL FOUNDATION UW	$2,000

02The need

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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 grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$962k · 43 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +71% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$962k

$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%

+71%

Still filing today

67%

38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationCivil RightsInternationalHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

JF
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE
9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +107%
UO
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION
7× · 2017–2023 · $48k · revenue +46%
A
ARTSFUND
7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +356%

Funded once

AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +110%
HR
HUMAN RIGHTS INITIATIVE OF TEXAS
one grant, 2018 · $3k
LA
Listen and Talkgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $800 · revenue +71%

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.

04Its 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.

American Civil Liberties Union of Washington

To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights, and to take action to further those liberties and rights within the state of washington.

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Association of American Law Schools Inc

The association of american law schools' mission is to uphold and advance excellence in legal education.

Education

Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services

The George Washington University

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…

Education

Association of Washington Cities

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…

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Pew Research Center

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…

Social Science

Aclu of Washington Endowment Fund

To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights by supporting the aclu-wa foundation.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

American Society of International Law

To foster the study of international law and to promote international relations on the basis of law and justice.

International

American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

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 Usa

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…

Social Science

Jewish Coalition for Immigrant Justice Northwest

The jewish coalition builds a jewish voice in the pacific northwest advancing immigrant justice and domestic policy, following the leadership of impacted community.

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found; 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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 54 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

34/34

Grantees still filing

28/34

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$579,007Education$117,800Human Services$90,075Civil Rights$87,500International$66,300Arts & Culture$48,500Crime & Legal$14,000

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.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA21.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lowen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home