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Lowes Foundation

Lowes Foundation is focused on closing the skilled trades labor gap across the United States.

$18M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Employment$25MHousing & Shelter$13MEducation$11MHuman Services$4.6MCommunity Improvement$2.5MYouth Development$1.1MRecreation & Sports$432kPhilanthropy$297kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $125k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
  • $250k+28 grants · $18M
$500,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Central Piedmont Community College Foundation$1,000,000
Midlands Technical College Foundation$1,000,000
Goodwill Industries International$1,000,000
Maricopa County Community College District Foundation$1,000,000
The National Center for Construction Education and Research$1,000,000
Wiregrass Georgia Technical College Foundation$1,000,000
Sleep In Heavenly Peace$916,150
Baton Rouge Community College Foundation Inc$850,000
Trade Institute of Pittsburgh$800,000
SkillsUSA Inc$700,000
Alaska Works Partnership Inc$700,000
Community College of Baltimore County Foundation$601,000
Uncommon Construction$600,000
Moore Community House$600,000
Hope Renovations$600,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 21% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Rebuilding Together Valley of the Sun: $75k → 11%Yarnell Regional Community Center: $21k → 14%Montachusett Opportunity Council Inc: $15k → 11%Fort Bend Cnty Women's Ctr: $25k → 8%Community Crisis Center: $49k → 20%Charleston Orphan House Inc: $100k → 12%Youth Crisis Center Inc: $52k → 14%Northside Neighborhood House: $13k → 14%Christian Mission: $300k → 9%Centro Hispano: $260k → 8%Switchpoint Community Resource Center: $60k → 10%Lewis County Senior Citizens Center Inc: $9k → 18%YWCA of McLean County: $21k → 11%Blue Ridge Opportunity Commission: $8k → 19%RAIN Inc: $200k → 10%Ada Jenkins Center: $500k → 10%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

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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 31% of Lowes Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in NC; by stated purpose, 33%.

Lowes 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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 17 repeat orgs$36M to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
137

Total granted

$23M
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+41%

Still filing today

94%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEmploymentPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterCommunity 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

  • HF
    Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region
    2× · 2021–2022 · $3.6M · revenue +108%
  • SI
    SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +300%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDU AND RESEARCH LTD
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • RW
    Renaissance West Community Initiative
    one grant, 2021 · $2.6M · revenue -51% · 63% of their budget
  • MC
    MECKLENBURG COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.3M
  • CT
    COLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +168% · 34% of their budget
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
Charlotte Works

Charlotte works serves job-seekers and businesses by providing resources to develop a skilled workforce that meets employer needs. the organization offers job-search workshops, individual coaching, networking opportunities, and training…

Employment
2
The Stride Center

As an innovative social enterprise, The Stride Center's mission is to empower men and women facing barriers to employment to achieve economic self-sufficiency. We provide a comprehensive career development program that includes job skills…

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3
Community College Preparatory Academy Public Charter School

The mission of the community college preparatory academy public charter school is to provide the education and skills development to empower and prepare under-credited adults for postsecondary educational success, viable employment and…

Education
4
Youthbuild Dc Public Charter School Inc

Youthbuild pcs seeks to transform the lives of disconnected youth by offering a program, in english and spanish, that combines rigorous academic instruction with vocational training, life and employability skills- building, and community…

Education
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
Communityworks Inc

Communityworks is a publicly supported organization and certified community development financial institution that provides funding to promote affordable housing and community development to help stabilize low wealth families and…

Housing & Shelter
7
Philadelphia Works Inc

Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.

Employment
8
Construction Career Collaborative

As an interdependent alliance of construction industry leaders, we are collectively committed to positively impacting the future of the industry by strengthening the safe, skilled, and sustainable craft workforce pipeline.

Public Benefit
9
Job Point

Since 1965, we have been linking people with jobs by providing career planning, training and job placement assistance. we specialize in preparing individuals to enter the workforce, while meeting a critical need of the business community.

Human Services
10
Northwest College of Construction

To promote excellence and diversity in the construction industry by providing educational, training, and employment services.

Education
11
YouthBuild Newark Inc

To harness the intelligence and positive energy of low-income young people to rebuild their community and their lives.

Youth Development
12
National Council for Workforce Education

NCWE promotes student success and excellence in education and training by providing the link between policy and practice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity of the Charlotte Region; the most unlike its peers is Madisonville College Foundation. 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

122 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. 122 of the 180 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)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/122
Grantees still filing
76/122
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Habitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region: $3,566,668 · OtherHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Reg…MECKLENBURG COUNTY: $1,333,333 · OtherMECKLENBURG COUNTYWIREGRASS GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION-NORTH INC: $1,000,000 · OtherCOLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND TUITION SERVICES INC: $750,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000,000 · OtherGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INCTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC: $930,000 · OtherROOF ABOVE INC: $1,000,000 · Other+92 more: $9,949,633 · Other+92 moreRenaissance West Community Initiative: $2,610,000 · EducationRenaissance West Community Ini…She Built This City: $1,590,000 · EducationShe Built This CityCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,152,500 · EducationCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COL…Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 · EducationMississippi Gulf Coast Communi…PALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $1,000,000 · EducationPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN I…MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · EducationMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOU…WEST VIRGINIA WOMEN WORK: $825,000 · EducationSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationCOCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $750,000 · EducationIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 · EducationBERKELEY HEIGHTS PARENT TEACHER WILLIAM WOODRUFF SCHOOL PTO: $601,000 · EducationWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 · Education+21 more: $3,215,328 · Education+21 moreTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDU AND RESEARCH LTD: $2,000,000 · EmploymentTHE NATIONAL CE…SKILLSUSA INC: $1,700,000 · EmploymentSKILLSUSA INCGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC: $1,195,400 · EmploymentGOODWILL INDUST…TRADE INSTITUTE OF PITTSBURGH: $800,000 · EmploymentTRADE INSTITUTE…HOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER: $625,000 · EmploymentHOPE RENOVATION…Positive Workforce Coalition Inc: $500,000 · EmploymentPositive Workfo…NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $500,000 · EmploymentNONTRADITIONAL …SER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $450,000 · EmploymentSER METRO DETRO…LATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC: $350,000 · Employment+2 more: $50,000 · EmploymentSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $2,966,150 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte: $825,000 · Housing & ShelterAlaska Works Partnership Inc: $700,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more: $132,872 · Housing & ShelterUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $1,200,000 · PhilanthropyMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $850,000 · PhilanthropyALL WITHIN MY HANDS: $500,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $250,000 · PhilanthropyCNM INGENUITY INC: $235,350 · Philanthropy+1 more: $46,821 · PhilanthropyMOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $600,000 · Human ServicesAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $500,000 · Human ServicesMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc: $300,000 · Human ServicesCentro Hispano: $260,000 · Human ServicesRAIN Inc: $200,000 · Human ServicesLandmarks for Families Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesALLONE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $95,159 · Human ServicesLAWRENCE COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $94,820 · Human Services+11 more: $347,926 · Human ServicesLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementACCELERATE MONTANA: $500,000 · Community Improvement+2 more: $63,500 · Community Improvement
Other$21,529,634Education$15,793,828Employment$8,170,400Housing & Shelter$4,624,022Philanthropy$4,082,171Human Services$2,497,905Community Improvement$2,063,500

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 budgetHabitat For Humanity Of The Charlotte Region: $3,566,668 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $2,966,150 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetRenaissance West Community Initiative: $2,610,000 over 1y, 63% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CENTER FOR CONSTRUCTION EDU AND RESEARCH LTD: $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSKILLSUSA INC: $1,700,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetShe Built This City: $1,590,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetLOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC: $1,200,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF THE SOUTHERN PIEDMONT INC: $1,195,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL PIEDMONT COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,152,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetWIREGRASS GEORGIA TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION-NORTH INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetCOLUMBUS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetMARICOPA COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetMississippi Gulf Coast Community College Foundation Inc: $1,000,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPALM BEACH STATE COLLEGE FDN INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetTHE MASTER'S APPRENTICE INC: $930,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetBATON ROUGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $850,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA WOMEN WORK: $825,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetRebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte: $825,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetSEATTLE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetCOCONINO COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $750,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetAlaska Works Partnership Inc: $700,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetIVY TECH FOUNDATION INC: $700,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCHICAGO WOMEN IN TRADES: $650,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE RENOVATIONS SPENCER: $625,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetWILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $600,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetMOORE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $600,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetunCommon Construction Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetVALENCIA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetACCELERATE MONTANA: $500,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetPositive Workforce Coalition Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetAda Jenkins Families and Careers Development Center Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $500,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetCHARLOTTE RESCUE MISSION ENDOWMENT: $500,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetNORTH ALABAMA HOMEBUILDING ACADEMY INC: $500,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetLIVINGSTONE SCHOOLS INC: $480,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetThe ROC Charlotte Inc: $450,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSER METRO DETROIT JOBS FOR PROGRESS INC: $450,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetLATINO ACADEMY OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT INC: $350,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMooresville Area Christian Mission Inc: $300,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSOUTHSIDE VIRGINIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNEXT STEP OF WEST MICHIGAN: $300,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAspire Community Capital: $275,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCentro Hispano: $260,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United Way of Greater…Ally Charitable Found…Truist Foundation IncThe Presbyterian Hosp…Foundation for the Ca…GenYOUTH IncorporatedThe Leon Levine Found…Share Our StrengthWells Fargo FoundationMerancas Foundation I…American Association …The Broad Center
United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC31.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Lowes Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowes Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • Goodwill Industries International Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Making Opportunity Count Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Historic Sotterley Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Youth Crisis Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Crisis Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The National Center for Construction Edu and Research Ltd: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 180 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home