How much does The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation give?

The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,497,296 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Arts & Culture (7%), Youth Development (7%).

Who are The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Agnes Scott College ($690k), Randolph School ($690k), Vanderbilt University ($614k).

Does The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Huntsville, Alpha Foundation, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama.

Where is The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation based?

The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation is based in AL.

The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation

The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$1.5M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$524k

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$7.8MArts & Culture$1.0MYouth Development$944kHealth$861kHuman Services$742kHousing & Shelter$671kScience & Tech$635kFood & Nutrition$226kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k3 grants · $17k
$10k–50k12 grants · $232k
$50k–250k10 grants · $724k
$250k+1 grant · $524k

$19,892

Median grant

States reached

$29M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
The University of Alabama in Birmingham	$524,052
Generosity Foundation	$100,000
Kids to Love	$100,000
Vanderbilt University	$74,865
Agnes Scott College	$74,865
Girls Incorporated	$74,865
Huntsville Boys and Girls Club	$74,865
Randolph School	$74,865
Huntsville Museum of Art	$50,000
Habitat for Humanity	$50,000
University of Alabama in Huntsville	$50,000
The Vine Pastoral Counseling Center	$19,892
Huntsville Chamber Music Guild	$19,892
The Ark Inc	$19,892
Village of Promise	$19,892

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-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.

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.

Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 85%.

The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 2.7% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$11M · 32 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$11M

$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+20%

Still filing today

72%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

AS
Agnes Scott College
9× · 2017–2025 · $690k · revenue +56%
RS
RANDOLPH SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $690k · revenue +63%
Vanderbilt University
8× · 2018–2025 · $614k · revenue +65%

Funded once

FS
First Stop Inc
one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue -47%
CS
Crisis Services of North Alabama Inc
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +9%
NA
North Alabama Coalition for the Homeless
one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -25% · 26% of their budget

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.

Alabama Regional Medical Services

To provide quality healthcare and related services to all communities, including the underserved and homeless persons, regardless of language, culture, or financial barriers

Health

Caring for Citizens of Alabama

Social services

Human Services

Central North Al Health Service Inc

Provide primary health care to mostly low-income and underserved persons.

Health

Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame

Arts & Culture

The Bridge Inc

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.

Health

Central Alabama Works

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.

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The Arc of South Talladega County

Support services for the mentally challenged of south talladega county in alabama.

Human Services

Habitat for Humanity of Baldwin County Inc

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.

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Houston County Volunteer Medical Clinic Inc

The organization works to provide free primary medical care to working, lower-income, uninsured citizens in Houston County, GA.

Health

Goodwill Industries of Central Alabama

Goodwill industries provides training and employment for handicapped persons.

Employment

Chattahoochee Hospice Inc

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.

Human Services

Alabama Free Clinic Inc

To provide free medical services and medicine to people unable to afford healthcare.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Arc of Madison County Inc; 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.

05the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 96 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)

60/61

Grantees still filing

44/61

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$9,896,595Education$1,459,497Arts & Culture$754,915Health$675,697Human Services$547,613Housing & Shelter$231,299Food & Nutrition$205,000

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.

Community Foundation of Greater HuntsvilleAL91.4× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Jane K Lowe Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

19report 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

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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