· Private foundation
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.
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 $10k10 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON HEALTH SCIENCE UNIVERSITY | $56,000 |
| UC DAVIS HEALTH SCIENCES DEVELOPMEN | $15,000 |
| LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| OREGON SYMPHONY | $7,000 |
| SEE YA LATER FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| AAUW NEVADA COUNTY BRANCH | $6,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| REED COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| SATURDAY ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| SOUP KITCHEN AT ST BARNABAS | $2,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
OREGON FOOD BANK6× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +62%- SYSEE YA LATER FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $35k · revenue +30%
- TWTHE WILSON FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- CCCOLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLINDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +463%
Partnership With Native Americansone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue -33%- URUC REGENTSone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.
Education and Research
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 36 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 OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SEE YA LATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD BOUND PETS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds REED INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Nevada Joint Union High Sch Dist Fnd ↗
- Who funds TURTLE RIDGE WILD LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OREGON SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEGACY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Partnership With Native Americans ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from M Lowell Edwards Foundation co US Bank. Bigger dots raise more.
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Willamette University: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute: 1% of income from government
- Oregon Symphony Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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