· Private foundation
Lowenstein Brothers Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Lowenstein Brothers Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Houston Jewish Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Lowenstein Brothers Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $301k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $250k+1 grant · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOWENSTEIN FAMILY SUPPORTING FOUNDATION | $269,000 |
| THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $20,000 |
| HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE | $1,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $1,000 |
| BETH EL SYNAGOGUE | $1,000 |
| CIRCLE OF HOPE NICU FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CONGREGATION BETH SHALOM | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of your 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.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M 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
- LFLOWENSTEIN FAMILY SUPPORTING FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $1.2M · revenue +366% · 91% of their budget
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY2× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +12%
- HBHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY3× · 2019–2021 · $15k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGOone grant, 2025 · $1.3M · revenue 0%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFone grant, 2025 · $739k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
The Jewish Community Center Endowment Fund was created to support the programs and operations of the Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston.
The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…
Built around the values of tzedakah (righteousness, charity) and tikkun olam (repairing the world), the foundation works with east bay jewish donors to realize their philanthropic goals and create a rich, supportive, inclusive and strong…
Guided by Jewish values, the federation convenes, inspires, collaborates, leads and enriches the jewish community locally and around the world. The Federation also serves as a fundraising body and coordinates a veriety of services on the…
To facilitate and promote philanthropy through donor advised funds.
To ensure the continuity and vitality of the jewish community
The jewish federation of nashville is the central voluntary communal organization of the jewish community. through its fund-raising, planning and community relations efforts, either independently or in partnership with other jewish…
To sustain and enhance jewish life at home and around the world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City and the most unlike its peers is Circle of Hope Nicu Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 2017–2025, 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; 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 UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Houston Jewish Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOWENSTEIN FAMILY SUPPORTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE BUREAU OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE NICU FOUNDATION ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation · Goldberg Family Foundation · Nerman Family Foundation · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · 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 Lowenstein Brothers 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.
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