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The Low 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $200k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MENTORS INTERNATIONAL | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| WORLDWIDE CHILD RELIEF FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| DAVIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE RACHEL COVEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BLUE RIBBON COALITION | $50,000 |
| YOUTHLINC | $25,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +102% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- MIMentors International6× · 2019–2024 · $715k · revenue +288%
- OROUR RESCUE3× · 2018–2020 · $280k · revenue +102%
- CFCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2024 · $275k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSone grant, 2018 · $100k
- OSORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +243%
- EFEastman Family Recovery Foundationone grant, 2021 · $50k · 79% of their budget
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.
JOY International is dedicated to the prevention of child trafficking and to the freedom, healing, and empowerment of trafficked children, teens, and young adults worldwide.
To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.
Our mission is to build a global movement for the end of child abuse, empowering people around the world to develop partnerships, unify, organize, and mobilize effectively to end violations against children.
HFTF serves orphaned and vulnerable children in Ethiopia, and its mission is to see every child thriving in a loving family. HFTF accomplishes this through five primary initiatives: in-country adoption training and placement, family…
Mukti is a Sanskrit word that means "freedom from oppression and exploitation". Our goal is to see women and children find pathways to freedom. We partner with organizations around Asia that are on the frontlines helping to rescue and…
Finding forever homes for children
Help struggling families and children who have been adopted from international families in other countries work to adjust to their new life and bring some into other families
Wholives provides sustainable clean water and economic development programs through community ownership and self-reliance programs. we have a mission to end fgm and child slavery abuses. we implement our anti-bullying and anti-suicide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rescue Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 Mentors International ↗
- Who funds OUR RESCUE ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUTHLINC ↗
- Who funds The Rachel Covey Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIBBON COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILD OPS ↗
- Who funds ORPHANAGE SUPPORT SERVICES ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Eastman Family Recovery Foundation ↗
- Who funds Pathways To Prosperity Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD JOY INC ↗
- Who funds The Rescue Fund ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING PLANET INC ↗
- Who funds Little Lambs Foundation for Kids Inc ↗
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: Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Larry H Miller and Gail Miller Family Foundation · George S and Dolores Dore Eccles Foundation · University Impact · Texas Instruments Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Low 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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