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The J K Lowder 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $256k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (ENDOWMENTCAPITAL) | $300,000 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (BOARD COMPAIGN) | $125,000 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY TIGERS UNLIMITED | $75,000 |
| AUBURN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $50,000 |
| RIVER REGION UNITED WAY | $50,000 |
| MISSION TO NORTH AMERICA | $35,000 |
| ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL - GALA | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MONTESSORI SCHOOL AT HAMPSTEAD | $25,000 |
| CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE | $23,800 |
| REFORMED THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $20,000 |
| FAMILY SUNSHINE CENTER | $20,000 |
| MONTGOMERY ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC | $12,000 |
| A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
78 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 29 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $304k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MSMONTESSORI SCHOOL AT HAMPSTEAD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $200k · revenue +114%
- MMMONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $168k · revenue +6%
- CPCLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF BUSINESSone grant, 2017 · $100k
- YOYMCA OF GREATER MONTGOMERYone grant, 2020 · $78k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To provide supportive services, educational services, and assistance to cancer patients throughout central alabama, including those patients who lack the resources
Promote charitable, educational, scientific, and cultural activities in the city of montgomery, alabama.
To advance the civic, commercial, and industrial interests of the montgomery area for the general benefit and welfare of the total community.
To train, educate, and gather community leaders to improve the welfare of the montgomery, alabama community
To promote the preservation and continued development of commercial banking in alabama.
To work in partnership with families and organizations to ensure that all alabama children (birth to five) get everything they need to develop to their fullest potential.
Obtain optimal health & well-being for all children in alabama, and to provide educational and practice support for its membership so the highest quality of medical care can be achieved.
The mission of Children's of Alabama is to provide the finest pediatric health services to all children in an environment that fosters excellence in research and medical education. Children's will be an advocate for all children and work…
The alabama association of conservation districts (aacd) is the unified voice of alabama's 67 conservation districts. organized as a 501(c)3, aacd works in cooperation with the alabama soil & water conservation committee, federal, state,…
The alabama alliance netowrk works to strengthen and enhance alabama's civic society through research, education, and grantmaking
K-12 school serving students with special needs.
To further the image of medicine through financial support for health education programs and projects
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Alabama 4-H Club Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
61 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. 61 of the 124 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds RIVER REGION UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds MONTESSORI SCHOOL AT HAMPSTEAD INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CLOVERDALE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MONTGOMERY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CITY-COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CAPRI COMMUNITY FILM SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY LEARNING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE A EDUCATION PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds VALIANT CROSS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ALABAMA 4-H CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA DANCE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds CLEFWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY AREA ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SERVICE DOGS ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE SAMARITAN COUNSELING CENTER IN ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The S Adam Schloss Foundation Inc · Kiwanis Club of Montgomery Foundation Inc · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Alfa Foundation · Arthur M Britton Foundation Inc · Gordy-Mead-Britton Foundation · Central Alabama Community Foundation Inc · John and Joyce Caddell Foundation · Samuel L Schloss Family Foundation Tr Schlossburke K Trustee · The Landa Fund · Crum Family Charitable 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 The J K Lowder 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.
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.
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