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Lowy Foundation USA Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$430,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
American Friends of Tel Aviv University$1,500,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH$430,000
Individual grant recipient$18,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $225k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $25k → 11%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

42%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 6 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
17

Total granted

$3.8M
$3.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

50%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • The Rand Corporation
    2× · 2022–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +16%
  • ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    2× · 2021–2022 · $500k · revenue +22%
  • TI
    THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $200k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • IF
    INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $938k · revenue +40%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -7%
  • TM
    THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue -83%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
2
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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3
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
4
American Society for Technion Israel Institute of Technology Inc

The american technion society supports the technion's critical research and (continued on sch o)

International
5
Weizmann Institute of Science

The weizmann institute of science, located in rehovot, israel, is one of the worlds top-ranking, multidisciplinary research institutions. at any one time, several thousand scientists, staff and students are involved in hundreds of research…

Science & Tech
6
American Friends of Kohelet Policy Forum

The principal and primary intent of the organization is to support kohelet policy forum (the "forum"), a jerusalem-based non-profit policy center founded in 2012, comprised of leading academics and researchers.

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7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
Yeshiva University

The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.

Education
9
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University

We fundraise in the u.s. to support, and raise awareness of, bar-ilan university in israel.

Education
10
Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary

To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…

Education
11
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
12
Hand in Hand American Friends of the Center for Jewish-Arab Education in Isra

To promote partnership and coexistence among jewish and arab citizens of israel by providing support for integrated schools and providing funding for and assisting in program development in connection with israeli nonprofits with similar…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pef Israel Endowment Funds Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PEF: $1,480,000 · OtherPEFINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS & JEWS INC: $937,500 · OtherINTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS &…MANHATTAN DAY SCHOOL: $507,180 · OtherMANHATTAN DAY SCHOOLHSA COUNCIL: $200,000 · OtherHSA COUNCIL+6 more: $196,676 · Other+6 moreAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $1,500,000 · InternationalAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Uni…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $600,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INCTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE NETWORK INC: $500,000 · InternationalTHE MIDDLE EAST PEACE DIALOGUE N…+2 more: $50,000 · InternationalThe Rand Corporation: $1,100,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand Corp…UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEW…AMERICA GIVES INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICA GI…PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyPEF ISRAEL…THE MAYOR'S FUND FOR LOS ANGELES: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MAYOR'…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $500,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $430,000 · Arts & CulturePEN AMERICAN CENTER INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureWALLIS ANNENBERG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $25,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE SPECIAL CHILDREN CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $120,000 · Health
Other$3,321,356International$2,650,000Public Benefit$1,100,000Philanthropy$850,000Education$500,000Arts & Culture$480,000Human Services$225,000Health$120,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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
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.

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 E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lowy Foundation USA Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lowy Foundation USA Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Special Children Center: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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