· Private foundation
The Lowrance Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $364k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAVIDSON COLLEGE | $235,000 |
| THE LAMB CENTER | $75,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSITIONS | $53,725 |
| BRIGHT BLESSINGS | $10,000 |
| PROJECT MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Davidson College3× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +26%- TLTHE LAMB CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +128%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC2× · 2021–2022 · $42k · revenue +158%
Funded once
- CPCALDWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $90k
- APALEXANDIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $50k
Queens University of Charlotteone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -5%
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.
Charlotte center city partners (cccp) boldly envisions and activates strategies and actions that will assure charlotte center city is a welcoming and equitable, economically vibrant, culturally rich and beloved place for all.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.
Presbyterian medical services designs and delivers quality, integrated health, education, and human services in response to identified community needs of the multicultural people of the southwest.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…
To educate, train, and develop ministers, evangelists, missionaries, and other people who are going to enter the Christian ministry. Educate ministers and missionaries to serve the Lord.
A Baptist ministry for children and families of South Carolina that provides residential care for children in need along with counseling, educational, and referral services while developing and strengthening positive relationships in a…
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
Central louisville community ministries provides emergency assistance for rent, utilities and medication. also provide in-kind assistances for food, clothing, personal care items,school supplies and haircut vouchers.
We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haiti Outreach Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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 The Center for Community Transitions ↗
- Who funds Davidson College ↗
- Who funds THE LAMB CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPERA CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT BLESSINGS ↗
- Who funds Queens University of Charlotte ↗
- Who funds HAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds PRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds PINK POLKA DOT PRODUCTIONS DBA PASSION4MOMS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS 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: Foundation for the Carolinas · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · United Way Worldwide · Duke Energy Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Lowrance 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.