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Lowy Foundation USA Inc

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
60%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$430,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,500,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 8
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$1.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Lowy Foundation USA Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CulturePublic BenefitEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$1.9M100%
FY20245$975k60%
FY20234$1.3M100%
FY20223$1.8M67%
FY20213$375k67%
FY20206$539k67%
FY20198$2.1Mn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

International$2.3MEducation$2.1MPhilanthropy$2.0MSocial Science$1.1MHealth$663kArts & Culture$490kPublic Safety & Disaster$200kCrime & Legal$200kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees
All grantees of Lowy Foundation USA Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ$1,500,0001n/a
The Rand Corporation$1,100,00020%
International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc$937,50010%
Council on Foreign Relations Inc$600,00011%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai$500,00020%
The Middle East Peace Dialogue Network Inc$500,000116%
Friends of United Hatzalah Inc$430,0001n/a
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc$400,00010%
America Gives Inc$200,00011%
Hsa Council$200,000125%
The Innocence Project Inc$200,00020%
Nyu Langone Hospitals$120,00010%
Shluchim Office International$60,6761n/a
The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles$50,00011%
Chabad of Cambodia Inc$40,0001n/a
The Special Children Center$25,00010%
Israel Emergency Alliance$25,00010%
Pen American Center Inc$25,00010%
Bnai David -Judea Congregation$25,0001n/a
American Australian Association$25,00011%
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts$25,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lowy Foundation USA Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Rand Corporation: $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc: $937,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCouncil on Foreign Relations Inc: $600,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Middle East Peace Dialogue Network Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetUnited Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc: $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Gives Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHsa Council: $200,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNyu Langone Hospitals: $120,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Special Children Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIsrael Emergency Alliance: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPen American Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Australian Association: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Lowy Foundation USA Inc

How much does Lowy Foundation USA Inc give?
Lowy Foundation USA Inc reported 3 grants totaling $1,948,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Lowy Foundation USA Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (25%), Education (23%), Philanthropy (22%).
Who are Lowy Foundation USA Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ ($1.5M), The Rand Corporation ($1.1M), International Fellowship of Christians & Jews Inc ($938k).
Does Lowy Foundation USA Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lowy Foundation USA Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lowy Foundation USA Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Lowy Foundation USA Inc based?
Lowy Foundation USA Inc is based in NY.

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 27 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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