How much does Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation give?

Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $127,558 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 58 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Health (21%), Human Services (17%).

Who are Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Shalva Inc ($73k), Phase One Foundation ($58k), Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago ($49k).

Does Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation 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 Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan, Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation, United Jewish Foundation.

Where is Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation based?

Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation is based in MI.

Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation

Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein 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.

$128k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$13k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$228kHealth$212kHuman Services$168kEducation$114kInternational$72kArts & Culture$68kReligion$68kYouth Development$22kOther$0

02FY2025 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k47 grants · $94k
$10k–50k3 grants · $34k

$1,360

Median grant

States reached

$1.5M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
NF FORWARD	$12,550
JEWISH FEDERATION OF METRO DETROIT	$10,792
LAURENCE SCHOOL	$10,500
ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL	$7,750
HARVARD WESTLAKE SCHOOL	$7,500
BREAKTHROUGH T1 DIABETES FOUNDATION	$6,750
JEWISH UNITIED FUND	$5,200
RAVINIA FESTIVAL	$5,000
PHASE ONE FOUNDATION	$5,000
SHALVA	$5,000
NORTH SHORE CONGREGATION ISRAEL	$5,000
CAMP TAMARACK	$5,000
HOWARD & EVANSTON COMMUNITY CENTER	$5,000
CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY	$3,500
ORT AMERICA	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $137k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$690k · 84 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

84 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102

Total granted

$690k

$108k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+46%

Still filing today

64%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalOther

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

SI
SHALVA INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $73k · revenue +74%
PO
PHASE ONE FOUNDATION
9× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +149%
JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO
5× · 2017–2022 · $49k · revenue +13%

Funded once

JU
JEWISH UNITED FUND METRO CHICAGO
one grant, 2018 · $24k
JF
JEWISH FEDERATION METRO DETROIT
one grant, 2018 · $10k
F
FIDF
one grant, 2017 · $8k

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.

The Jewish Fund

The jewish fund is organized and operates exclusively for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. the fund's primary activities are: supporting a jewish health care mission in the greater detroit area and michigan; promotion of…

Philanthropy

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education

Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health

Minneapolis Jewish Federation

Minneapolis jewish federation is a nonprofit organization that promotes a culture of philanthropy, leverages resources to meet local and global jewish needs, and facilitates community planning to ensure a thriving and secure future.

Philanthropy

Jewish Family and Children's Service of Minneapolis

Jewish family and children's service of minneapolis provides essential services to people of all ages and backgrounds to sustain healthy relationships, ease suffering and offer support in times of need.

Human Services

Chicago Public Education Fund

The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.

Education

Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health

Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health

Chelsea Jewish Lifecare Inc

The organization's mission is to manage a continuum of senior care business lines that consistently provide high-quality compassionate care while focusing on the development of innovative programs and services that enable individuals to…

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Service; the most unlike its peers is Murphy's Backpacks Inc. 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

103 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. 103 of the 210 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

102/103

Grantees still filing

78/103

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$358,394Philanthropy$223,029Health$154,905Human Services$138,895Education$62,480Arts & Culture$52,862Food & Nutrition$6,200

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Community Foundation for Southeast MichiganMI35.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Edward C and Linda Dresner Levy Foundation · United Jewish Foundation · The Eugene Applebaum Family Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Grosfeld Foundation · Harold and Penny B Blumenstein Foundation Corporation · DTE Energy Foundation · Mickey Shapiro Charitable Trust · Alan Jay and Sue Kaufman Foundation · Marjorie and Maxwell Jospey Foundation · The Irving and Ethel Palman 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 Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Malcolm and Beth Lowenstein Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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