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The Lowrie 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.

$49k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$95kEducation$81kYouth Development$58kHuman Services$9kAnimals$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $28k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$683k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$17,500
PROJECT BEISBOL$10,000
PARRISH LITTLE LEAGUE$7,559
LAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE$5,000
SPORT OREGON FOUNDATION$3,000
BECAUSE BASEBALL$2,500
OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS$1,500
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $18k → 8%BASEBALL FOR ALL: $2k → 14%CHILDREN'S MUESEUM OF HOUSTON: $9k → 16%PROJECT BEISBOL: $10k → 13%MORE THAN BASEBALL: $5k → 17%RIVERDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $2k → 10%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 12%PRINCESTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%BECAUSE BASEBALL: $3k → 7%OUR BASEBALL LIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10k → 8%PROJECT BEISBOL: $10k → 13%MORE THAN BASEBALL: $3k → 17%RIVERDALE SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $2k → 10%OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $2k → 12%PRINCESTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%BECAUSE BASEBALL: $3k → 7%OUR BASEBALL LIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%PROJECT BEISBOL: $10k → 13%LAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE: $5k → 8%SPORT OREGON FOUNDATION: $3k → 12%BECAUSE BASEBALL: $3k → 7%CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%BUCK CARDINAL CLUB: $8k → 8%PROJECT BEISBOL: $10k → 13%LAKE OSWEGO GIRLS SOFTBALL: $3k → 8%BECAUSE BASEBALL: $3k → 7%CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $8k → 8%PROJECT BEISBOL: $9k → 13%LAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE: $3k → 8%BECAUSE BASEBALL: $3k → 7%BUCK CARDINAL CLUB: $5k → 8%PROJECT BEISBOL: $4k → 13%LAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE: $3k → 8%BECAUSE BASEBALL: $3k → 7%BUCK CARDINAL CLUB: $3k → 8%PROJECT BEISBOL: $4k → 13%LAKE OSWEGO GIRLS SOFTBALL: $3k → 8%BECAUSE BASEBALL: $3k → 7%BUCK CARDINAL CLUB: $3k → 8%PROJECT BEISBOL: $3k → 13%LAKE OSWEGO GIRLS SOFTBALL: $3k → 8%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $3k → 8%LAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE: $3k → 8%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$183k · 13 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$183k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
0%

Still filing today

62%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Recreation & SportsInternationalEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PB
    PROJECT BEISBOL CORP
    7× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +54%
  • RS
    RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • BB
    Because Baseball Inc
    6× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MUESEUM OF HOUSTON
    one grant, 2021 · $9k
  • BF
    BASEBALL FOR ALL INC ATTN JUSTINE SIEGAL
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
Mlb-Mlbpa Youth Development Foundation
Recreation & Sports
2
Oxford Recreational Baseball Assoc

Orba is an instructional baseball league

Recreation & Sports
3
Baseball Beyond Borders

To expand access and opportunity for youth through baseball, empowering them with life skills, academic pathways, and leadership beyond the game.

Recreation & Sports
4
Perfect Play Athletics Foundation
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5
Elite Sandlot Baseball
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6
Ocean Surge Travel Baseball Association
Recreation & Sports
7
Build Our Ballpark Inc

To improve the lives of kids by providing the opportunity to play baseball and softball which, through teamwork, strengthens character, builds pride and teaches skills for life.

Recreation & Sports
8
Navy-Ortega-Lakeshore Little League

Sanctioned Little League baseball and softball for girls boys ages 6-18

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9
Next Level Baseball

Support to athletes in need

Recreation & Sports
10
Legacy Youth Sports Fellowship

Fostering youth sports and competition

Recreation & Sports
11
Little League Baseball Inc

Little League Baseball

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12
Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League

The Albany Berkeley Girls Softball League offers recreational and competitive fastpitch softball for players in kindergarten through 9th grade. We are a nonprofit, all-volunteer league focused on providing a positive athletic experience…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oregon Humane Society. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BUCK CARDINAL CLUB: $28,500 · OtherBUCK CARDINAL CLUBLAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE: $12,500 · OtherLAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUEIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCHILDREN'S MUESEUM OF HOUSTON: $9,350 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUESEUM OF HOUSTONPARRISH LITTLE LEAGUE: $7,559 · OtherPARRISH LITTLE LEAGUELAKE OSWEGO GIRLS SOFTBALL: $7,500 · OtherLAKE OSWEGO GIRLS SOFTBALLMORE THAN BASEBALL INC: $7,500 · OtherMORE THAN BASEBALL INCPRINCESTON UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · OtherPRINCESTON UNIVERSITYOUR BASEBALL LIFE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherPROJECT BEISBOL CORP: $58,204 · InternationalPROJECT BEISBOL CORPTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF…CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION…Because Baseball Inc: $17,500 · Recreation & SportsBecause Bas…Oregon Sports Authority Foundation: $4,500 · Recreation & SportsOregon Spor…OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsOREGON ADAP…RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 · AnimalsBASEBALL FOR ALL INC ATTN JUSTINE SIEGAL: $1,500 · Youth Development
Other$93,909International$58,204Education$55,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Animals$3,000Youth Development$1,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT BEISBOL CORP: $58,204 over 7y, 10% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBecause Baseball Inc: $17,500 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetLAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE: $12,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetCAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN BASEBALL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOregon Sports Authority Foundation: $4,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBASEBALL FOR ALL INC ATTN JUSTINE SIEGAL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds PROJECT BEISBOL CORP ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds RIVERDALE SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Because Baseball Inc ↗
  • Who funds LAKE OSWEGO LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MORE THAN BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Oregon Sports Authority Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OREGON ADAPTIVE SPORTS ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BASEBALL FOR ALL INC ATTN JUSTINE SIEGAL ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Lowrie Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lowrie Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Lowrie Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lowrie 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.

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 18 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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