· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SOUTH ASHLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER | $6,000 |
| HILLCREST BRUCE MINISTRIES | $6,000 |
| AMY FOR AFRICA - UNITY BAPTIST CHURCH | $5,500 |
| ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN | $5,500 |
| CASA OF NORTHEAST KY | $5,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,500 |
| RIVER CITIES HARVEST | $5,500 |
| SAFE HARBOR | $5,500 |
| CHRISTIAN STUDENT FELLOWSHIP | $5,000 |
| ASHLAND AREA YMCA | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +76% since the first grant, against +56% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +133%
Funded once
- TUTRANSYLVANIA UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +56%
- WOWEEK OF COMPASSIONone grant, 2023 · $25k
- ARADDICTION RECOVERY CENTERone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 RIVER CITIES HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF NORTHEAST KENTUCKY 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lowman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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