· Private foundation
The Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND | $940,000 |
| UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK | $500,000 |
| LARCHMONT TEMPLE | $405,672 |
| WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL | $400,000 |
| BRAINGAIN ISRAEL | $100,000 |
| BROAD INSTITUTE INC | $100,000 |
| FEEDING WESTCHESTER | $100,000 |
| MOVING TRADITIONS | $100,000 |
| THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC | $50,000 |
| HILLEL AT THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA | $25,000 |
| MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE | $25,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $25,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $2,500 |
| SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,800 |
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 (FY17–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of The Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $753k 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
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $3.2M · revenue +121%- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +39%
- MTMOVING TRADITIONS7× · 2017–2023 · $700k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- BFBrothers for Lifeone grant, 2023 · $104k · revenue -1%
- WMWeill Medical College of Cornell Universone grant, 2022 · $100k
- FBFOOD BANK OF WESTCHESTERone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Selfhelp Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Whitney Museum of American Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
51 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. 51 of the 66 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 JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING TRADITIONS ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds THE ISRAEL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST ↗
- Who funds White Plains Hospital Medical Center ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds Brothers for Life ↗
- Who funds FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRAINGAIN ISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds CONEY ISLAND PREP BUILDERS 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: Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Glff Inc · Fjc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · 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 Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inc 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.
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.