Who are The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gonzaga College High School ($400k), The Safe Children Foundation ($125k), Flip Flop Friends Inc ($95k).

Does The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation

The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation at a glance

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The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation

Q: How much does The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation give?

The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $390,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Q: What does The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Health (12%), Food & Nutrition (12%).

Q: Does The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc, Harry and Zoe Poole Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation.

Q: Where is The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation based?

The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation is based in VA.

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$390k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

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.

Education$619kHealth$321kFood & Nutrition$310kHuman Services$293kCrime & Legal$240kInternational$227kHousing & Shelter$195kYouth Development$179kOther$0

02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
DOORWAYS FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES	$15,000
FLIP FLOP FRIENDS	$15,000
ASHOKA	$10,000
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT	$10,000
ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY HELPING OTHERS	$10,000
THE CARPENTER'S SHELTER	$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA	$10,000
FALLS CHURCH-MCLEAN CHILDREN'S CENTER	$10,000
BOXES OF BASICS	$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY	$10,000
IXTATAN FOUNDATION	$10,000

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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

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

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%

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.

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for Others Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 52 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)

38/38

Grantees still filing

24/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

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

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.

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

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 The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harvey S Lowe Jr and Susan Hitchcock-Lowe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’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

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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