· Private foundation
Lowman Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k27 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $60,000 |
| LEXINGTON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $50,000 |
| CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
| KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CARES | $6,000 |
| HILLCREST BRUCE MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| SOUTH ASHLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $6,000 |
| RIVER CITIES HARVEST | $5,500 |
| CASA OF NORTHEAST KY | $5,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,500 |
| ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $5,500 |
| AMY FOR AFRICA - UNITY BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,500 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $5,500 |
| CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| ASHLAND AREA YMCA | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ACASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +6%
- SOSHELTER OF HOPE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +120%
- CCChristmount Christian Assembly8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- TUTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +56%
- WOWEEK OF COMPASSIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- ARADDICTION RECOVERY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of the humane society of northern kentucky, inc. (hsnky) is to end companion-animal homelessness in northern kentucky and to improve the lives of companion animals in our community through education and low-cost spay and neuter…
The mission of the kentucky equine humane center, inc (kyehc) is to create second chances for kentucky's equines through care, retraingin, and adoption, while educating the public to ensure every horse thrives.
Our mission is to help the homeless and injured animals of Kentucky through proper vet care and re-homing programs. We are also a strong advocate for spay and neuter within the region.
To advocate programs providing assistance to persons in low income environments to have adequate food, shelter, healthcare, education, water, waste and a sustainable home.
Kentucky Habitat for Humanity's purpose is to work on a statewide level to create partnerships, financial resources, and educational programs to support the mission of building decent, affordable, and sustainable homes and communities for…
Mission: Rescue animals, educate communities, advocate for animal welfare. We exist to help animals and the people who love and care for them.
The organization assists in animal control in fiveeastern ky counties
The prevention of cruelty to animals through pet adoption, education, and spay/neuter programs within the community of mercer county, kentucky.
The mission of the kentucky casa network is to strengthen and support local casa programs in kentucky, that work to advocate for children in the court system due to abuse, neglect or dependency.
To increase access to the courts and high-quality legal representation for people with low and moderate incomes living in kentucky through innovative partnerships with the judiciary, the civil legal aid programs, private bar, law schools,…
To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4 Paws for Ability Inc and the most unlike its peers is Charity Navigator. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CASA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITIES HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Christmount Christian Assembly ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND ANIMAL RESCUE FUND ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF TRUCKEE-TAHOE ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS FOR ABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY MARKEY CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISTA RISE COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Northeast Kentucky · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Beulah M Field Memorial T U W D July 3 1986 · Blue Grass Community Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lowman Family 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.
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.