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The Lowrance Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$235k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$609kEducation$435kReligion$407kHousing & Shelter$225kArts & Culture$50kHealth$48kHuman Services$47kInternational$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $364k
$53,725
Median grant
3
States reached
$202k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $3k → 7%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $10k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $10k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $10k → 10%BRIGHT BLESSINGS: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-5%

Still filing today

89%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Davidson College
    3× · 2019–2025 · $405k · revenue +26%
  • TL
    THE LAMB CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $225k · revenue +128%
  • MF
    MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $42k · revenue +158%

Funded once

  • CP
    CALDWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $90k
  • AP
    ALEXANDIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • Queens University of Charlotte
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue -5%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Charlotte Center City Partners

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.

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2
Greenville College

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.

Education
3
Nashville Public Radio

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.

Arts & Culture
4
Planned Parenthood North Central States Foundation

To build and maintain financial support for planned parenthood north central states to advance and protect sexual and reproductive health care for all.

Human Services
5
Presbyterian Medical Services

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.

Health
6
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
7
Mid-Atlantic Christian University

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…

Education
8
Charlotte Christian College & Theological Seminary

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.

Religion
9
Connie Maxwell Children's Ministries

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…

Human Services
10
Westminster College

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…

Education
11
Central Louisville Community Ministries Inc

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.

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12
The Presbyterian Home At Charlotte Inc

We enrich the lives of those we serve by providing a nurturing environment that fosters joy, purpose, and well-being.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central and Western North Carolina Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Center for Community Transitions: $608,900 · OtherThe Center for Community TransitionsPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USA: $255,000 · OtherPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH USACALDWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $90,000 · OtherCALDWELL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHALEXANDIA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $50,000 · Other+8 more: $29,000 · OtherDavidson College: $405,020 · EducationDavidson CollegeQueens University of Charlotte: $30,000 · EducationQueens University of Charlo…+1 more: $9,000 · EducationTHE LAMB CENTER: $225,000 · EnvironmentTHE LAMB CENT…OPERA CAROLINA: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $42,000 · HealthBRIGHT BLESSINGS: $35,000 · Human ServicesTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesHAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $15,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $2,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,032,900Education$444,020Environment$225,000Arts & Culture$50,000Health$42,000Human Services$37,500International$15,000Recreation & Sports$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center for Community Transitions: $608,900 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetDavidson College: $405,020 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LAMB CENTER: $225,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetOPERA CAROLINA: $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL AND WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC: $42,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRIGHT BLESSINGS: $35,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetQueens University of Charlotte: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAITI OUTREACH MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPRESTON TAYLOR MINISTRIES: $9,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMCNEILLY CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PARENT PROJECT FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY RESEARCH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINK POLKA DOT PRODUCTIONS DBA PASSION4MOMS: $2,500 over 1y, 26% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WARNER PARKS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Foundation for the Ca…The US Charitable Gif…The Blackbaud Giving …United Way WorldwideDuke Energy FoundationRaymond James Charita…Baird Foundation IncNatl Christian Charit…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lowrance Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lowrance Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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