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Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation

The organization is designed to provide support for other charitable organizations as described in section 501(c) and sections 509(a) of the internal revenue code.

$322k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$101k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$973kHuman Services$378kReligion$216kHealth$121kEducation$121kYouth Development$30kFood & Nutrition$14kCivil Rights$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $288,173, the rows itemized in this filing. The $321,823 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $33,650 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $49k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
$14,740
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$101,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$58,333
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS)$51,100
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HILLEL FOUNDATION$34,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY$14,740
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM$7,500
UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM$7,500
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - ST LOUIS$7,500
HYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY$6,000
02The need
03

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, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Village Shalom Inc: $10k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - ST LOUIS: $8k → 11%HAPPY BOTTOMS: $7k → 15%Village Shalom Inc: $10k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - ST LOUIS: $8k → 11%HAPPYBOTTOMS: $6k → 15%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $10k → 5%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER - ST LOUIS: $8k → 11%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $10k → 5%VILLAGE SHALOM INC: $10k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $5k → 5%Village Shalom Inc: $2k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $51k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $48k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $44k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $29k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $15k → 5%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $15k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $3k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $2k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $2k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $2k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $1k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $1k → 5%Jewish Family Services (JFS): $1k → 5%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$1.3M · 11 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
4

Total granted

$1.3M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+37%

Still filing today

82%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesReligionPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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 SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $423k · revenue +105%
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $218k · revenue +114%
  • HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE
    5× · 2017–2021 · $95k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • ER
    Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston
    one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +9%
  • CB
    CONGREGATION BETH TORAH INC
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • CB
    Congregation Beth Shalom
    one grant, 2018 · $6k
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.

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The University of Iowa Louis Shulman Hillel Foundation

The mission of Iowa Hillel is to enhance the lives of Jewish students at the University of Iowa, so they may enrich the Jewish people and the world. Iowa Hillel envisions a world for our students where they find a community here at Iowa…

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2
University of Judaism Foundation
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3
The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan Inc

Together with our community, jcc manhattan creates opportunities for people to connect, grow, and learn within an ever-changing jewish landscape.

Human Services
4
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
5
National Council of Jewish Women Inc Jersey Hills Section
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6
Hebrew College

Promotes excellence in jewish learning & leadership within a pluralistic environment. see sch ohebrew college promotes excellence in jewish learning and leadership within a pluralistic environment of open inquiry, intellectual rigor,…

Education
7
The Jewish Foundation of Cincinnati
Philanthropy
8
The Jewish Agency for Israel

The jewish agency binds jews across ideologies and civilizations together in a worldwide jewish family with israel at its center. it provides the global framework for aliyah, ensures global jewish safety, strengthens jewish identity and…

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9
B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation At Princeton

Cjl partners with students and other members of the princeton community to sustain and grow a welcoming, multi-faceted and pluralistic jewish community that is fully-integrated into the fabric of campus life and which provides personally…

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10
Jewish Federation of Nashville and Middle Tennessee

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…

Philanthropy
11
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
12
Hillel Foundation for Jewish Life at the University of Washington

The mission of Hillel at the University of Washington (Hillel UW) is to inspire students and young adults (ages 18-35) to explore, embrace, and celebrate Jewish life and identity.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City; the most unlike its peers is Happybottoms. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $799,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITYJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $217,940 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITYJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $51,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $422,600 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICESVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $56,500 · Human ServicesVILLAGE SHALOM INCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,500 · Human Services+1 more: $12,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $180,772 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUN…HILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $132,100 · OtherHILLEL THE FOUNDATION…UNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM: $72,000 · OtherUNION FOR REFORM JUDA…+3 more: $30,550 · Other+3 moreHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $95,000 · ReligionEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $26,000 · ReligionHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY: $28,100 · EducationAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$1,067,940Human Services$513,600Other$415,422Religion$121,000Education$28,100Community Improvement$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $799,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $422,600 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $217,940 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $132,100 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGE SHALOM INC: $56,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY: $51,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHYMAN BRAND HEBREW ACADEMY: $28,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEvelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston: $26,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPYBOTTOMS: $12,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Greater Kansas City C…Stanley J Bushman Sup…Abe & Anna Bograd Mem…G Kenneth and Ann Bau…Marion and Henry Bloc…Goldberg Family Found…Norman & Elaine Polsk…Nerman Family Foundat…Patricia Werthan Uhlm…The Dreiseszun Family…Oppenstein Brothers F…Lawrence a and Joan S…
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO22.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Stanley J Bushman Supporting Foundation · Abe & Anna Bograd Memorial Trust 10030800 · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Goldberg Family Foundation · Norman & Elaine Polsky Family Charitable Foundation · Nerman Family Foundation · Patricia Werthan Uhlmann Foundation · The Dreiseszun Family Foundation · Oppenstein Brothers Foundation · Lawrence a and Joan S Weiner 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 Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lowenstein Family Supporting Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lowenstein Family Supporting 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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