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The Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$940k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.9MHealth$4.3MArts & Culture$1.1MEducation$832kInternational$713kYouth Development$707kReligion$607kFood & Nutrition$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.2M
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND$940,000
UJA FEDERATION OF NEW YORK$500,000
LARCHMONT TEMPLE$405,672
WHITE PLAINS HOSPITAL$400,000
FEEDING WESTCHESTER$100,000
MOVING TRADITIONS$100,000
BROAD INSTITUTE INC$100,000
BRAINGAIN ISRAEL$100,000
THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$50,000
FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES$25,000
HILLEL AT THE UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE$25,000
ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND$2,500
NEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC$2,500
SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES$1,800
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $15k → 6%SUNRISE ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 17%SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 17%THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50k → 9%JOIN ISREAL INC: $1k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

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VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of The Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$8.1M · 27 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
30

Total granted

$8.1M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+58%

Still filing today

81%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $753k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    4× · 2017–2020 · $3.2M · revenue +121%
  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +39%
  • MT
    MOVING TRADITIONS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $700k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • BF
    Brothers for Life
    one grant, 2023 · $104k · revenue -1%
  • WM
    Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF WESTCHESTER
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

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…

Health
8
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

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.

Education
11
Foundation for Jewish Philanthropies Inc

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,…

Philanthropy
12
The Baruch College Fund

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Selfhelp Community Services Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 66 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
39/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $6,480,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNAL FUNDUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,420,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPI…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,202,500 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CAN…White Plains Hospital Medical Center: $400,000 · HealthWhite Plains Hospital Medica…The Broad Institute Inc: $400,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc+7 more: $170,050 · HealthTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $525,000 · OtherTHE ISRAEL P…LARCHMONT TEMPLE INC: $432,721 · OtherLARCHMONT TE…TEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA: $109,937 · OtherTEMPLE SHAAR…FEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $100,000 · OtherFEEDING WEST…Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers: $100,000 · OtherWeill Medica…MOVING TRADITIONS: $100,000 · OtherMOVING TRADI…+30 more: $496,095 · Other+30 moreMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $503,933 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $317,200 · Arts & CultureBrothers for Life: $104,250 · Arts & CultureJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $39,800 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $18,000 · Arts & CultureTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $645,000 · EducationBRAINGAIN ISRAEL INC: $100,000 · Education+5 more: $30,500 · EducationMOVING TRADITIONS: $700,000 · ReligionThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $75,000 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $63,000 · International
Philanthropy$7,901,000Health$4,172,550Other$1,863,753Arts & Culture$983,183Education$775,500Religion$700,000International$138,000

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 budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND: $6,480,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,202,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $1,420,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOVING TRADITIONS: $700,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $645,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ISRAEL PROJECT: $525,000 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $503,933 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetWhite Plains Hospital Medical Center: $400,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $317,200 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBrothers for Life: $104,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING WESTCHESTER INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRAINGAIN ISRAEL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $87,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDLELIGHTERS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $70,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $63,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetJACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC: $39,800 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE: $37,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $13,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONEY ISLAND PREP BUILDERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNorthwestern University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONEY ISLAND PREPARATORY PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA: $9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNAL 30 TROOPERS BENEFIT FUND INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION INC: $4,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SUMMER CAMP INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOIN ISRAEL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCarlos Otis Stratton Mountain Clinic Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN WESTCHESTER HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEDFORD PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ARAVA THE INSTITUTE LTD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Jewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Glff IncFjcJewish Community Fede…The Bessemer Giving F…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Ayco Charitable F…Vanguard Charitable E…
Jewish Communal FundNY27.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Michael & Carol Lowenstein Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 66 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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