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M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank

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.

$112k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
8%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$6,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$56,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$2.2M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 8% of the organizations M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthFood & NutritionOther
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
FY2024still arriving11$109k27%
FY202313$113k8%
FY202210$100k0%
FY202115$107k47%
FY202015$84k13%
FY201917$108k12%
FY201816$90k31%
FY201715$85kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$383kEducation$173kFood & Nutrition$66kArts & Culture$55kYouth Development$35kCivil Rights$30kAnimals$24kHuman Services$6kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
NY
OR
CA
CO
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oregon Food Bank$40,00060%
See Ya Later Foundation Inc$35,10082%
American Association of University Women Inc$30,00040%
The Wilson Foundation$20,00041%
Homeward Bound Pets Humane Society$16,00050%
University of California- Davis$15,0005n/a
Vassar College$13,80030%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$13,80030%
Food Bank of the Rockies$10,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$8,00020%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Oregon Food Bank$40,00060%
See Ya Later Foundation Inc$35,10082%
American Association of University Women Inc$30,00040%
The Wilson Foundation$20,00041%
Homeward Bound Pets Humane Society$16,00050%
University of California- Davis$15,0005n/a
Vassar College$13,80030%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$13,80030%
Food Bank of the Rockies$10,00020%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$8,00020%
Nevada Joint Union High Sch Dist Fnd$8,00026%
Turtle Ridge Wild Life Center$8,00043%
Oregon Symphony Association$7,00010%
Legacy Health Foundation$7,00010%
Colorado Center for the Blind$7,00010%
Partnership With Native Americans$6,00010%
McMinnville School District$3,0001n/a
Willamette University$2,80010%
Smile Train Inc$2,00010%

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($544k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOregon Food Bank: $40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSee Ya Later Foundation Inc: $35,100 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetAmerican Association of University Women Inc: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Wilson Foundation: $20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHomeward Bound Pets Humane Society: $16,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetVassar College: $13,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $13,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of the Rockies: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNevada Joint Union High Sch Dist Fnd: $8,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTurtle Ridge Wild Life Center: $8,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetOregon Symphony Association: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegacy Health Foundation: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Center for the Blind: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillamette University: $2,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmile Train Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 17.

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.

The Oregon Community FoundationOR12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · 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 M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank

How much does M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank give?
M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank reported 12 grants totaling $112,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (48%), Education (21%), Food & Nutrition (8%).
Who are M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Oregon Food Bank ($40k), See Ya Later Foundation Inc ($35k), American Association of University Women Inc ($30k).
Does M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank 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 M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank based?
M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank is based in MN.

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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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