· Private foundation
The Jane K Lowe Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $232k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $724k
- $250k+1 grant · $524k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The University of Alabama in Birmingham | $524,052 |
| Generosity Foundation | $100,000 |
| Kids to Love | $100,000 |
| Girls Incorporated | $74,865 |
| Agnes Scott College | $74,865 |
| Randolph School | $74,865 |
| Vanderbilt University | $74,865 |
| Huntsville Boys and Girls Club | $74,865 |
| University of Alabama in Huntsville | $50,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity | $50,000 |
| Huntsville Museum of Art | $50,000 |
| Community Ballet Foundation | $19,892 |
| Big Brother Big Sisters of the Tennessee Valley | $19,892 |
| Huntsville Chamber Music Guild | $19,892 |
| The Ark Inc | $19,892 |
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 (FY19–25, $448k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Jane K Lowe Charitable 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, 91% of the giving stays in AL; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k 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
- ASAgnes Scott College9× · 2017–2025 · $690k · revenue +56%
- RSRANDOLPH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $690k · revenue +63%
Vanderbilt University8× · 2018–2025 · $614k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- FSFirst Stop Incone grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -47%
- COCITY OF HUNTSVILLE (MADISON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY)one grant, 2019 · $100k
- TLTHE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INCone grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
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 quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers
Social services
Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.
To provide treatment and rehabilitative services for juveniles and adults in alabama through contracts primarily with the alabama department of youth services and the alabama department of mental health.
To facilitate implementation of workforce development programs andservices that support economic and job development in the region andthat address the workforce needs of existing businesses and industry.
Support services for the mentally challenged of south talladega county in alabama.
Habitat for humanity of baldwin county, inc. is an ecumenical, christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing by partnering with the community to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action.
The organization works to provide free primary medical care to working, lower-income, uninsured citizens in Houston County, GA.
Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.
The organization pledges to provide quality programs, service, and technology to meet the unique physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families, and to educate the community about end of life issues.
To provide free medical services and medicine to people unable to afford healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Madison County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oakwood University. 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 24 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 27% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 17% 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 96 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 Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM BOARD OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS TO LOVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE OF PROMISE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HUNTSVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC GUILD ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTSVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds The Vine Pastoral Counseling Center Inc ↗
- Who funds New Hope Children's Clinic ↗
- Who funds First Stop Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LAND TRUST OF NORTH ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF 400 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF MADISON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GENEROSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG FREE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Crisis Services of North Alabama Inc ↗
- Who funds North Alabama Coalition for the Homeless ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds STILL SERVING VETERANS ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK ACADEMY FOR THE PERFORMIN ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND MILE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds The Museum of Information Explosion ↗
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: Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville · Alpha Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · The I3 Cares Foundation · Wallace E Kirkpatrick Family Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · The Propst Foundation · The Beard-Young Family Foundation · John a Jurenko Et Al Foundation · Parker Griffith Family Foundation · Stender Family Foundation · Pei Ling Charitable Trust
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 Jane K Lowe Charitable 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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