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Loweth-Alvord Foundation at a glance

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Loweth-Alvord Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$69kEducation$53kHuman Services$23kInternational$21kYouth Development$20kEnvironment$19kPhilanthropy$16kHousing & Shelter$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St Mark's Episcopal Church$6,500
The Episcopal Church of Connecticut$5,000
Groton Open Space Association$4,000
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$2,500
Salvation Army of Wilmington NC$2,500
Doctors Without Borders$2,500
Hartwick College$2,000
Maine Maritime Academy$2,000
West End House Camp$2,000
Planned Parenthood$1,500
North Carolina Community Foundation$1,500
BSA Cape Fear Council$1,200
Smart Start of New Hanover County$1,000
Mystic Garden Club$1,000
Church of the Good Shepherd$1,000
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 (FY20–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Community Counseling Center: $1k → 12%Community Counseling Center: $1k → 12%Community Counseling Center: $1k → 12%Community Counseling Center: $1k → 12%Green Chair Project: $250 → 8%Community Counseling Center: $1k → 12%The Green Chair Project: $250 → 8%Community Counseling Center: $1k → 12%Safe Futures Inc: $1k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $750 → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $500 → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $500 → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $500 → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $500 → 9%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

ME
MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
MD
NC
DC
TX
FL
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$277k · 56 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

56 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
10

Total granted

$277k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+25%

Still filing today

57%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHousing & ShelterInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $14k · revenue +39%
  • GS
    GROTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +12%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NC
    NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • LM
    LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +13%
  • WK
    WILMINGTON KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k
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
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc

The Children's Home Society of North Carolina's mission is to promote the right of every child to a permanent, safe, and loving family.

Human Services
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
Cape Fear Academy

To operate a private school for pre-kindergarten through grade 12 in Wilmington, NC

Education
7
Historic Wilmington Foundation Inc

The mission of Historic Wilmington Foundation is to protect and preserve the irreplaceable historic resources of Wilmington and the Lower Cape Fear Region.

Arts & Culture
8
Wireless Research Center of North Carolina

The Wireless Research Center is an independent, private nonprofit research center dedicated to applied research and engineering. Located in North Carolina's Research Triangle region, the WRC helps clients from around the world develop…

Science & Tech
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Greensboro College

Greensboro College provides a liberal arts education grounded in the traditions of the United Methodist Church and fosters the intellectual, social, and spiritual development of all students while supporting their individual needs.

Education
12
Wilmington Education Organization

Public K-8 charter school located in New Hanover County, providing tuition-free education to the public and open to all residents of North Carolina.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cape Fear Literacy Council; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

43 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. 43 of the 73 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
31/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Episcopal Church of Connecticut: $30,000 · OtherThe Episcopal Church of ConnecticutST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $20,500 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL: $15,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILLMAINE MARITIME ACADEMY: $14,000 · OtherMAINE MARITIME ACADEMYST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $12,250 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHSalvation Army of Wilmington NC: $11,000 · OtherMystic Seaport Advancement Office: $10,000 · Other+40 more: $104,900 · Other+40 moreHartwick College: $6,000 · EducationYOUNG SCIENTIST ACADEMY: $4,500 · EducationCAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL: $2,500 · EducationCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $1,500 · EducationSMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY: $1,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $750 · Education+2 more: $1,000 · EducationMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,500 · InternationalUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,500 · InternationalNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE FEAR CLINIC INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $6,000 · Human ServicesSafe Futures Inc: $3,750 · Human ServicesTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $500 · Human ServicesJUNE 10 INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $2,250 · Housing & ShelterALWAYS HOME INC: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,800 · Housing & ShelterWilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterEden Village of Wilmington: $500 · Housing & ShelterThe Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,500 · Arts & CultureNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $4,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$217,650Education$20,250International$20,000Philanthropy$14,000Human Services$10,250Housing & Shelter$10,050Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $7,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetHartwick College: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG SCIENTIST ACADEMY: $4,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCAPE FEAR CLINIC INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS MAKING IT INC: $3,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC GARDEN CLUB: $3,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL: $2,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWEST END HOUSE CAMP INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNE 10 INC: $2,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER: $2,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE KID FUND INC: $2,250 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE FEAR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNourishNC Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMART START OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER LEGACY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWilmington Area Rebuilding Ministry Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hill School of Wilmington Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREEN CHAIR PROJECT: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEden Village of Wilmington: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINAS DISTRICT KIWANIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GROTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds GROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY COUNSELING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & EASTERN NC INC ↗
  • Who funds The Wilmington Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIGADE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH CAROLINA SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG SCIENTIST ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CAPE FEAR CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
  • Who funds FIRST FRUIT MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds KIDS MAKING IT INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds MYSTIC GARDEN CLUB ↗
  • Who funds CAPE FEAR LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds WEST END HOUSE CAMP INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNE 10 INC ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE KID FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗

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.

The Landfall Foundati…New Hanover Community…North Carolina Commun…United Way of the Cap…Cape Fear Memorial Fo…Corning Incorporated …The Eshelman Foundati…Duke Energy FoundationThe True North Founda…The Cynthia & George …Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Myrtle and Rt Sin…
The Landfall Foundation IncNC38.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Landfall Foundation Inc · New Hanover Community Endowment Inc · North Carolina Community Foundation · United Way of the Cape Fear Area Inc · Cape Fear Memorial Foundation · Corning Incorporated Foundation · The Eshelman Foundation · Duke Energy Foundation · The True North Foundation Co Amy Brown North · The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Myrtle and Rt Sinclair Jr Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Groton Open Space Association Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc: 15% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center: 0% of income from government
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 73 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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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