A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE HARVEY S LOWE JR AND SUSAN HITCHCOCK-LOWE 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.

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $35k
$10k–50k26 grants · $305k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GONZAGA COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL	$50,000
SAFE SPOT	$30,000
ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$20,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE	$15,000
FLIP FLOP FRIENDS	$15,000
DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES	$15,000
Individual grant recipient	$10,000
THE CARPENTER'S SHELTER	$10,000
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT	$10,000
FALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDREN'S CENTER	$10,000
THE CHILD & FAMILY NETWORK CENTERS	$10,000
BOXES OF BASICS	$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$10,000
KENYA EDUCATION FUND	$10,000
ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION	$10,000

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.5M · 36 repeat orgs$112k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.5M

$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

+160%

Still filing today

75%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesInternationalEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther

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

TS
THE SAFE CHILDREN FOUNDATION
8× · 2018–2025 · $125k · revenue +131%
DF
DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $90k · revenue +34%
SI
SOME INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +30%

Funded once

CP
CLIFTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
one grant, 2017 · $29k
BT
BSA TROOP 1104
one grant, 2017 · $14k
TN
THE NATURE GENERATION
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -54%

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.

For Children's Sake of Virginia Inc

For children's sake is dedicated to promoting positive environments for children and families that develop trust, stability and independence.

Human Services

Human Rights for Kids

Human Rights for Kids is an international non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of human rights for children. We use an integrated, multi-faceted approach which consists of research & public education, coalition…

International

Anacortes Family Center

The mission of the anacortes family center is to serve homeless women, children and families in crisis by providing shelter in addition to comprehensive transformational services to achieve long lasting personal success and…

Housing & Shelter

Kids First Years

Our mission is to align, strengthen and sustain early childhood systems through collective leadership, equity, and innovation. to ensure every child in the City of Alexandria has a strong start in life.

Human Services

Shelter House Inc

Shelter House's mission is to prevent and end homelessness and domestic violence by engaging the community, building effective relationships and providing crisis intervention, safe housing and supportive services.

Housing & Shelter

Equitable Facilities Fund Inc

Eff is a nonprofit social impact fund that believes all children deserve a quality education. we empower high-performing public charter schools with equitable access to low-cost, long-term financing by innovatively combining…

Education

A Family for Every Orphan

A FAMILY FOR EVERY ORPHAN'S mission is to create paths to help orphans and vulnerable children find care in safe and loving families in their home country.

International

Foundation for the Homeless Inc

Empowering families and individuals experiencing homelessness to build a future filled with dignity, opportunity, and lasting solutions.

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Thrive Dc

Thrive dc works to prevent and end homelessness by providing vulnerable individuals with a comprehensive range of services to help stabilize their lives.

Food & Nutrition

Elevate Early Education Inc

Our mission is to raise awareness, advocate and create innovative initiatives to give children equitable access to a high-quality education for the first eight years of their lives.

Education

Voices for Virginia's Children

The mission of voices for virginia's children is to champion public policies and legislation that achieve positive and equitable outcomes for young people.

Civil Rights

Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia Inc

Home of va ensures equal access to housing opportunities by building individual capacity, ensuring compliance with fair housing laws, and promoting effective public policy to advance housing justice.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Pieces to Masterpieces. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/40

the rest of the field

13%

6,446/50,428

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.

04the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

24/38

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,504,000Human Services$428,500Education$249,000International$226,500Civil Rights$85,000Public Benefit$60,000Philanthropy$51,000

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

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia IncVA27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Harry and Zoe Poole Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · The Jv Schiro Zavela Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Ada L and Albert M Wibel Foundation · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · McLean Community Foundation · Act for Alexandria

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 The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

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

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How do I get to The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines