· Private foundation
Lowry Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VARIOUS UNDER 100000 | $8,430 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
11 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +26%- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +83%
- TFTHE FRAGMENT SOCIETY2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +206%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%- VCVOLUNTEER CENTER SANTA CRUZone grant, 2021 · $4k
- EHEASTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue +364%
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.
Foster an earth-centered worldview and economy.
Raise awareness about the issue, science, and solutions behind the world ecological crisis. the principal activity of the corporation is raising money to support the charitable activities of synchronicity earth in the united kingdom, which…
The world future society works to improve decision-making about the future by empowering futurists, fostering networks and advancing knowledge and action on future critical issues.
We are supporting health initiatives worldwide.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Provide humanitarian support in China. Help to develop a civil society in China. Promote rule-of-law,human rights, and freedom of expressions.Focus on grass-root and people who are neglected by the outside world
MedGlobal is a humanitarian non-governmental organization working to serve vulnerable communities around the world by providing innovative, free, and sustainable healthcare. Our health services support refugees, displaced persons, and…
Advocates for world health is a nonprofit that recovers and redistributes medical products to reduce waste and improve healthcare in the u.s. and abroad.
Global Health Foundation supports innovative solutions to improve the health and livelihoods of people living in resource-poor communities around the world.
The mission of this organization shall be to educate the general public about environmental practices which cause harm to human health, the environment and other natural resources; and to seek redress of these harms through litigation or…
EWB International seeks to promote collaboration of the global EWB movement. Together we work towards a sustainable world, where engineering enables long-term positive social and economic development, for the benefit of people and the…
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 15 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 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALABAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUDSONALPHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRAGMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EASTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Partners for World Health ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds DESIGN OUTREACH 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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lowry Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowry Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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