Texas · Private foundation
The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein 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.
- $270k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 59
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 25 | $255k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $181k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 41 | $495k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $720k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $642k | 2% |
| FY2019 | 53 | $724k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 56 | $717k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 59 | $826k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jewish Institute for National Security of America | $190,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Jewish Family Service | $185,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston | $181,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Seven Acres Jewish Senior Care Services Inc | $172,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Evelyn Rubenstein Jewish Community Center of Houston | $152,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Holocaust Museum Houston | $132,500 | 6 | 0% |
| CHRISTUS Foundation for HealthCare | $128,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of St Thomas | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Dominic Village | $103,500 | 7 | 0% |
| St Pius X High School | $103,500 | 7 | n/a |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company · Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation · Strake Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Marek Family Foundation · MD Anderson Foundation · The Methodist Hospital · The Zions Bancorporation Foundation · Charity Guild of Catholic Women of Harris County Inc · The Elkins Foundation · United Way of Greater Houston
How this is measured
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About The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation
- How much does The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation give?
- The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $269,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 59 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (22%), Education (21%), Health (11%).
- Who are The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Jewish Institute for National Security of America ($190k), Jewish Family Service ($185k), Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston - Houston ($181k).
- Does The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein 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 Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Harry S & Isabel C Cameron Foundation Sentinel Trust Company, Albert & Ethel Herzstein Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation based?
- The Lewis and Joan Lowenstein Foundation is based in TX.
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