North Carolina · Public charity
Lowes Foundation
Lowes Foundation is focused on closing the skilled trades labor gap across the United States. Our mission is to develop a community of skilled tradespeople who can build and revitalize our homes neighborhoods and infrastructure for the future.
- $18M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 35
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 86%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 58
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 25
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 86% of the organizations Lowes Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 81% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 35 | $18M | 71% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $20M | 86% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $2.0M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $4.4M | 60% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $8.1M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $707k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $2.9M | 98% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region | $3,566,668 | 2 | 6% |
| Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc | $2,966,150 | 4 | 5% |
| Renaissance West Community Initiative | $2,610,000 | 1 | 63% |
| Goodwill Industries International Inc | $2,000,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The National Center for Construction Edu and Research Ltd | $2,000,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Skillsusa Inc | $1,700,000 | 2 | 4% |
| She Built This City | $1,590,000 | 3 | 31% |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | $1,500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mecklenburg County | $1,333,333 | 1 | n/a |
| United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc | $1,200,000 | 3 | 2% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Lowes Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 23 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Foundation for the Carolinas · GenYOUTH Incorporated · The Leon Levine Foundation · Share Our Strength · Wells Fargo Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · American Association of Community Colleges · The Broad Center
How this is measured
About Lowes Foundation
- How much does Lowes Foundation give?
- Lowes Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $17,825,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lowes Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Employment (41%), Housing & Shelter (20%), Education (18%).
- Who are Lowes Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region ($3.6M), Sleep in Heavenly Peace Inc ($3.0M), Renaissance West Community Initiative ($2.6M).
- Does Lowes Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lowes Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Ally Charitable Foundation, Truist Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lowes Foundation based?
- Lowes Foundation is based in NC.
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