Georgia · Private foundation
Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation
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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 73
- Grants FY2024
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $370,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 57 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 14
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 72 | $1.4M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 59 | $1.3M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 73 | $1.4M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $1.2M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 77 | $990k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 77 | $908k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 57 | $842k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $1,987,837 | 8 | 2% |
| Auburn University Foundation | $425,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $226,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation | $220,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Alzheimers of Central Alabama Inc | $164,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Project Als Inc | $154,250 | 5 | 2% |
| Virginia Episcopal School | $150,250 | 6 | n/a |
| The Tanner Foundation for Neurological Diseases | $145,000 | 7 | 7% |
| Jubilee Family Development Center | $130,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Tum Tum Tree Foundation | $70,000 | 5 | 3% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 109 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Protective Life Foundation · Robert R Meyer Foundation · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Altecstyslinger Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Hackney Foundation · Dunn-French Foundation · The Thomas E Jernigan Foundation · Debardeleben Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation
- How much does Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation give?
- Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation reported 73 grants totaling $1,415,300 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 57 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (56%), Education (22%), Philanthropy (8%).
- Who are Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation ($2.0M), Auburn University Foundation ($425k), The Children's Hospital of Alabama ($226k).
- Does Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Susan Mott Webb Charitable Trust, The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Protective Life Foundation.
- Where is Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation based?
- Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation is based in GA.
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