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Lowey Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$234k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$404kInternational$244kEducation$180kYouth Development$105kRecreation & Sports$89kHealth$41kPhilanthropy$10kHuman Services$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $158k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$413k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD LEARNING INC - EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING$60,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$30,000
FILM INDEPENDENT CO$20,000
WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$20,000
CITY PARKS FOUNDATION$20,000
AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$18,000
CARAMOOR CENTER FOR MUSIC & THE ARTS INC$15,000
PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN$15,000
YALE CANCER CENTER$10,000
WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER$10,000
SESAME WORKSHOP$5,000
SPRINGBOARD 2000 ENTERPRISES INC$3,100
THE ELLEN HERMANSON FOUNDATION$3,000
NATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION$2,500
BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATIONAL CENTER INC$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $5k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATIONAL CENTER INC: $3k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE & RECREATIONAL CENTER INC: $2k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NY
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$977k · 18 repeat orgs$117k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

$977k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+5%

Still filing today

72%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • AJ
    AMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $186k · revenue +52%
  • FS
    FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +31%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2024 · $88k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +5%
  • CE
    CIFE EUROPEAN INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • EE
    East End Hospice Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
3
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
4
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
5
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
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
7
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
8
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
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
New York City Center Inc

The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…

Arts & Culture
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership With Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr15%45%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr15%62%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
5,284/48,488

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WORLD LEARNING INC - EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIONAL LIVING — $202,318 · OtherWORLD LEARNING INC - EXPERIMENT IN INTERNATIO…TAMARACK TOWER FOUNDATION — $133,750 · OtherTAMARACK TOWER FOUNDATIONWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherWORLDWIDE ORPHANS FOUNDATIONPARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC — $15,000 · Other+13 more — $54,466 · Other+13 moreAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $185,900 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL …Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCaramoor Center for Music &…THE NEO POLITICAL COWGIRLS INC — $20,575 · Arts & CultureTHE NEO POLITICAL COWGIRLS …FILM INDEPENDENT — $20,000 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENT+5 more — $17,500 · Arts & Culture+5 moreFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $90,000 · Recreation & SportsFIGURE SKATING…CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $51,500 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOU…DUKE UNIVERSITY — $88,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSIT…National Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation Inc — $37,500 · EducationNational Assoc…Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $15,500 · EducationRensselaer Pol…WESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION — $3,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $2,000 · PhilanthropyEast End Hospice Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $5,000 · Health
Other$440,534Arts & Culture$268,975Recreation & Sports$141,500Education$141,000Philanthropy$82,000Human Services$10,000Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN JEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $185,900 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC — $90,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $88,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $67,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $51,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNational Association of Basketball Coaches Foundation Inc — $37,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEO POLITICAL COWGIRLS INC — $20,575 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD 2000 ENTERPRISES INC — $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEast End Hospice Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH FUND OF THE DAMON RUNYON-WALTER WINCHELL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSESAME WORKSHOP — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK GILBERT & SULLIVAN PLAYERS INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ELLEN P HERMANSON FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CANCER COALITION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCULTURE FOR ONE — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCONCERNED CITIZENS OF MONTAUK — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChewonki Foundation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLOCAUST AND HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CENTER — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…Yvonne & Leslie Polla…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Vanguard Charitable E…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Communal FundNY17.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Yvonne & Leslie Pollack Family Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Lowey Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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