· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $139k
- $10k–50k22 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $203k
- $250k+2 grants · $711k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALZHEIMERS DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION | $370,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $341,000 |
| JUBILEE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $53,000 |
| LULU STRONG FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| CHILDREN'S OF ALABAMA | $50,000 |
| ST BERNARD PREPERATORY SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| UAB - HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE CLINICAL RESEARCH FUND | $30,000 |
| OMNICRON DELTA KAPPA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PROJECT ALS | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCIS XAVIER CHURCH | $20,000 |
| MARANATHAN ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $20,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST CECILIA CONGREGATION | $20,000 |
| ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $20,000 |
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, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
123 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 71 since wound down; 20 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +227%
- TCThe Children's Hospital of Alabama4× · 2021–2024 · $226k · revenue +19%
- ACAlabama Children's Hospital Foundation4× · 2017–2020 · $220k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSSETS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $280k
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION - JARMAN LOWDER ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UPUAB - PROFESSORSHIP IN NEUROSCIENCEone grant, 2022 · $35k
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 post-secondary education of excellence.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…
To provide administrative services to university of virginia (university) entities, university associated organizations, or other entities involved in activities which support the university. to engage in matters pertaining to real…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
See Disclosure Above.
Support the american college of medical genetics and genomics' (acmg) educational mission to "translate genes into health" by raising funds to attract the next generation of medical geneticists and genetic counselors, to sponsor important…
Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…
The arc baltimore supports people with developmental disabilities to lead fulfilling lives with a sense of belonging, purpose, and meaningful relationships.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
To support the university of alabama at birmingham in its scientific and educational mission, including managing and disbursing funds, acquiring real property, and providing operational flexibility.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Polo in the Pines Inc. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 233 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUBURN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Children's Hospital of Alabama ↗
- Who funds Alabama Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ALS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANNER FOUNDATION FOR NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES ↗
- Who funds JUBILEE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds TUM TUM TREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TOGETHER RELIEF ↗
- Who funds OMICRON DELTA KAPPA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALS ASSOCIATION DCMDVA CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLENWOOD 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: 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
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 Thomas H Lowder Family Foundation 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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.