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The Low Foundation

$8k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
4
Organizations funded FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$1,235
Largest grant, FY2020
$3,600
States reached, FY2020
2
Total assets, FY2020
$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California$3,60011%
The California Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums$1,23510%
Sudan Relief Fund Inc$25010%
Immaculate Conception School$2001n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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Find your warmest path to The Low Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Low Foundation

How much does The Low Foundation give?
The Low Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $8,055 in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does The Low Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Health (45%), Education (37%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are The Low Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ($4k), The California Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums ($1k), Sudan Relief Fund Inc ($250).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Low Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Low Foundation based?
The Low Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 5 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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