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The Lowe Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$25k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2026
1
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 28
FY2021 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$106k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations The Lowe Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesReligionCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving1$25k0%
FY20251$25k0%
FY202428$28k14%
FY202322$28k0%
FY202225$25k8%
FY202125$26kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2026.

Education$146kArts & Culture$3kHealth$2kInternational$1kCivil Rights$1kFood & Nutrition$950Housing & Shelter$800Human Services$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
VA
MD
AZ
DC
AL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 20 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lowe Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetArizona State University Foundation for a New American University: $146,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHias Inc: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Food Bank Alliance: $550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRosies House A Music Academy for Children Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Wiesenthal Center Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDuet Partners in Health & Aging Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetArizona Jewish Historical Society: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJbi International Inc: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWeitzman National Museum of American Jewish History: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family and Children's Service Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBureau of Jewish Education of Greater Phoenix: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Jewish Committee: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSierra Club: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Jewish Community Foundation of Greater PhoenixAZ13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix · Arizona Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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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How do I get to The Lowe Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lowe Foundation Inc 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 Lowe Foundation Inc

How much does The Lowe Foundation Inc give?
The Lowe Foundation Inc reported 1 grants totaling $25,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2025.
What does The Lowe Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (93%), Arts & Culture (2%), Health (1%).
Who are The Lowe Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University ($146k), Hias Inc ($550), St Mary's Food Bank Alliance ($550).
Does The Lowe Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lowe Foundation Inc 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 Lowe Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Phoenix, Arizona Community Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Lowe Foundation Inc based?
The Lowe Foundation Inc is based in AZ.

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 31 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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