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Robert and Elizabeth Lowe Family Foundation

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.

$269k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of ROBERT AND ELIZABETH LOWE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k33 grants · $113k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $157k
$5,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATI$41,750
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$30,000
AEI$25,000
PACIFIC PALISADES PRESBYTERIAN CHUR$15,000
POMONA COLLEGE$15,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$10,000
BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION$10,000
DEERFIELD ACADEMY$10,000
LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL T$9,885
PALISADES MALIBU YMCA ANNUAL CAMPAI$9,000
CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLAGE$7,500
WESTERN LA COUNTY COUNCIL BOY SCOUT$6,000
UNION RESCUE MISSION$5,000
SOJOURN$5,000
CITY OF HOPE$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $177k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIRACLE BABIES: $500 → 11%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $5k → 14%CHILDREN WITH HAIR LOSS: $500 → 10%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 17%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $3k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $500 → 14%THE COLLEAUGES: $5k → 14%NANCY PAINTER FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $200 → 14%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $2k → 11%THE COLLEAUGES: $750 → 14%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $2k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $1k → 11%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 14%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $1k → 11%ALLIES FOR EVERY CHILD: $3k → 14%MARTHA'S VILLAGE KITCHEN: $1k → 11%WESTSIDE CHILDREN'S CENTER: $3k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $50k → 14%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER: $5k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER: $3k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER: $3k → 14%REDISCOVER CENTER: $500 → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $30k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $20k → 14%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%LEVEL-UP LA: $3k → 14%LEVEL-UP LA: $3k → 14%LEVEL-UP LA: $3k → 14%PALISADES PRIDE: $1k → 14%PALISADES PRIDE: $1k → 14%BETTER ANGELS UNITED: $1k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $500 → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $250 → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $1k → 14%CAMP KESEM NATIONAL: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of Robert and Elizabeth Lowe Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Robert and Elizabeth Lowe Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 56 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

56 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

56
54

Total granted

$1.2M
$205k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+17%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationPublic BenefitEnvironmentInternationalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    4× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +66%
  • CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $60k · revenue +38%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $56k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • YE
    YMCA EMERGENCY IMPACT FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • YC
    YMCA CAMP WHITTLE METROPOLITAN LA
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MA
    MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
4
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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5
Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce

Chamber's mission: design and advance opportunities and solutions for a thriving regional economy that are inclusive and globally competitive. 1) advocacy - be a bold advocate for business as a driver of a strong economy that enables…

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6
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
9
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
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South Central Family Health Center

To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Palisades Pride Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%32%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%20%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr13%56%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
15%
21,220/142,791

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

84 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 130 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
63/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF HOPE — $120,000 · OtherCITY OF HOPEYMCA OF METROPOLITAN LA — $56,300 · OtherYMCA OF METROPOLITAN LAPALISADES MALIBU YMCA ANNUAL CAMPAI — $33,000 · OtherWESTERN LA COUNTY COUNCIL BOY SCOUT — $32,341 · OtherLAS MADRINAS — $32,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $28,000 · OtherYMCA EMERGENCY IMPACT FUND — $25,000 · OtherAEI — $25,000 · OtherYMCA CAMP WHITTLE METROPOLITAN LA — $25,000 · Other+61 more — $303,238 · Other+61 moreSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $136,750 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTE…Eisenhower Medical Center — $60,000 · HealthEisenhower Medical CenterChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los A…BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATIONThe Clearity Foundation — $14,050 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $12,000 · Health+9 more — $34,000 · Health+9 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $91,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $55,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIEL…POMONA COLLEGE — $40,000 · EducationPOMONA COLLEGEUCLA FOUNDATION — $26,500 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATIONHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $24,500 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCH…MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOL — $13,000 · EducationPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,850 · Education+7 more — $15,500 · EducationCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S I…Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $55,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's …REDISCOVER CENTER INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesREDISCOVER C…UNION RESCUE MISSION — $10,400 · Human ServicesUNION RESCUE…Allies for Every Child Inc — $7,500 · Human ServicesLevel UP LA — $7,500 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC — $7,000 · Human Services+11 more — $19,850 · Human Services+11 moreDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,000 · PhilanthropySIMA ENVIRONMENTAL FUND — $10,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 · PhilanthropyPacific Research Institute For Public Policy — $2,000 · PhilanthropyHEAL THE BAY — $22,000 · EnvironmentLOS ANGELES WATERKEEPER — $1,500 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $1,000 · Environment+1 more — $500 · EnvironmentCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $10,000 · Public BenefitAngel Force USA — $5,000 · Public BenefitSEAL-NSW FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Public BenefitVILLAGE FOR VETS — $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$679,879Health$356,800Education$290,850Human Services$177,750Philanthropy$35,500Environment$25,000Public Benefit$17,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — $136,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $91,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center — $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY — $55,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles — $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE — $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLAS MADRINAS — $32,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION — $26,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $24,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEAL THE BAY — $22,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARLBOROUGH SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Clearity Foundation — $14,050 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION — $14,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKENT SCHOOL — $13,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51 — $11,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALS Network — $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREDISCOVER CENTER INC — $10,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUNION RESCUE MISSION — $10,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN HALL LOS ANGELES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMA ENVIRONMENTAL FUND — $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL — $9,885 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $9,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANYON SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUB — $9,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAllies for Every Child Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLevel UP LA — $7,500 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetClaremont McKenna College — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES PARKS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEAGUES INC — $5,750 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAngel Force USA — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOME — $4,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CENTURY SCHOOL — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAR VISTA FAMILY CENTER — $3,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVENICE FAMILY CLINIC — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $3,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
  • Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
  • Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARLBOROUGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Clearity Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S BURN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51 ↗
  • Who funds ALS Network ↗
  • Who funds REDISCOVER CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds TOWN HALL LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds SIMA ENVIRONMENTAL FUND ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

California Community …The Annenberg Foundat…Joseph Drown Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…Wm Keck FoundationSempra FoundationWeingart FoundationJewish Community Foun…The Ahmanson Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Mayor's Fund for …The Deutsch Foundation
California Community FoundationCA36.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Joseph Drown Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Ahmanson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles · The Deutsch Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Robert and Elizabeth Lowe Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Robert and Elizabeth Lowe Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Robert and Elizabeth Lowe Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 130 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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