· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +50%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds Houston Jewish Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lowenstein Brothers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowenstein Brothers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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