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Lowery 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.

$500k
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$37k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$503kInternational$267kHousing & Shelter$228kFood & Nutrition$201kPublic Safety & Disaster$167kArts & Culture$134kHuman Services$124kPhilanthropy$106kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k22 grants · $90k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $411k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$7.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$37,000
WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIO$30,000
HOPE INTERNATIONAL$25,000
HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS$25,000
EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK$25,000
SALVATION ARMY OF EAST TEXAS$25,000
QUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH$20,000
HABITAT HUMANITY SMITH COUNTY$20,000
PATH$20,000
UAB SCHOOL OF NURSING$20,000
BIG SKY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$17,000
MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY$15,000
BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC$15,000
SPCA OF EAST TEXAS$15,000
BULLARD MISSION HOUSE MISSION CLINI$14,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $256k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $37k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $3k → 14%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 14%PATH: $20k → 14%PATH: $15k → 14%PATH: $15k → 14%PATH: $10k → 14%PATH: $5k → 14%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $6k → 12%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $6k → 12%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $6k → 12%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $5k → 12%CHILDREN'S VILLAGE: $3k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
PA
CA
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
AL
TX
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 46 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
4

Total granted

$1.9M
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+20%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionArts & CultureAnimalsOther
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

  • BH
    BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $155k · revenue +75%
  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
    5× · 2021–2025 · $140k · revenue +113%
  • WM
    WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • LS
    LONE STAR TRANSPORT DOGS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -53%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +20%
  • OF
    OLIVENHAIN FARMSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +308%
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.

1
Rancho Coastal Humane Society

See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…

Animals
2
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
3
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
4
Union Rescue Mission

Union rescue mission embraces people with the compassion of christ. we assist people experiencing homelessness by providing a comprehensive array of emergency and long-term services to our guests, including: food, shelter, clothing,…

Human Services
5
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
6
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
7
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
8
Habitat for Humanity of Orange County Inc

Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.

—
9
Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc

Through faith in action, austin habitat for humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

—
10
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
11
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
12
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding San Diego; the most unlike its peers is Lone Star Transport Dogs. 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

40 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. 40 of the 56 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
25/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS: $110,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF EAST TEXASSALVATION ARMY OF EAST TEXAS: $100,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY OF EAST TEXASEAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $62,500 · OtherEAST TEXAS FOOD BANKHABITAT HUMANITY SMITH COUNTY: $60,000 · OtherHABITAT HUMANITY SMITH COUNTYHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $47,500 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIAL OF EAST TEXAS: $42,500 · OtherQUARTERBACKING CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $35,000 · OtherWOOF PACK DOG RESCUE: $35,000 · OtherBIG SKY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $34,500 · OtherSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $33,500 · OtherSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 · Other+21 more: $313,000 · Other+21 moreBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $155,000 · HealthBETHESDA HEALTH C…BULLARD MISSION HOUSE AND MISSION CLINIC: $87,000 · HealthBULLARD MISSION H…KOURAGE HEALTH INC: $44,000 · HealthKOURAGE HEALTH IN…BE WELL THERAPY INC: $21,500 · HealthBE WELL THERAPY I…YOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION INC: $12,500 · Health+1 more: $8,000 · HealthWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $125,000 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS…HOPE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATI…United States Association for UNHCR: $39,500 · InternationalUnited States …+1 more: $1,000 · InternationalCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $139,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RES…PATH: $65,000 · Human ServicesPATHAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Nati…CHILDRENS VILLAGE AND FAMILY SERVICE: $24,000 · Human ServicesCHILDRENS VIL…BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $105,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $28,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY: $56,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $33,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT: $17,000 · PhilanthropyMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $55,000 · Food & NutritionBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $12,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$918,500Health$328,000International$265,500Human Services$256,000Arts & Culture$134,000Philanthropy$106,000Food & Nutrition$86,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC: $155,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $139,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC: $105,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBULLARD MISSION HOUSE AND MISSION CLINIC: $87,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetPATH: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY: $56,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $47,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKOURAGE HEALTH INC: $44,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $39,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $33,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDRENS VILLAGE AND FAMILY SERVICE: $24,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetPROMISE ACADEMY: $23,750 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBE WELL THERAPY INC: $21,500 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetLONE STAR TRANSPORT DOGS: $20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SKATEPARK PROJECT: $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE146 INC: $16,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOGETHER RISING: $15,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG SURVIVAL COALITION INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCOAST: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF EAST TEXAS: $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPRI ELEMENTARY PTA: $4,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANSIDE MUSEUM OF ART: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds BETHESDA HEALTH CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF EAST TEXAS ↗
  • Who funds BIRMINGHAM LANDMARKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds BULLARD MISSION HOUSE AND MISSION CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds PATH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds HIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SPANISH PEAKS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KOURAGE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds SPCA OF EAST TEXAS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDRENS VILLAGE AND FAMILY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds BE WELL THERAPY INC ↗
  • Who funds LONE STAR TRANSPORT DOGS ↗
  • Who funds BROTHER BENNO FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SKATEPARK PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
  • Who funds TOGETHER RISING ↗

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.

A S Genecov FoundationEast Texas Communitie…Ben and Maytee Fisch …The Rogers FoundationJames I Perkins Famil…The Louis and Peaches…Hibbs Family Foundati…The San Diego Foundat…Ed & Mary Heath Found…Anderson-Vukelja Foun…Hoeffner FoundationBob L Herd Foundation
A S Genecov FoundationTX22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: A S Genecov Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · Ben and Maytee Fisch Foundation · The Rogers Foundation · James I Perkins Family Foundation · The Louis and Peaches Owen Family Foundation · Hibbs Family Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Ed & Mary Heath Foundation · Anderson-Vukelja Foundation · Hoeffner Foundation · Bob L Herd 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 Lowery Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowery Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • LOVE146 Inc: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 56 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-PF 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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