California · Nonprofit
Lowell Alumni Association
Lowell Alumni Association (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,271,328 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,339,195). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $809k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $8.7M
What Lowell Alumni Association does
Mission
The Lowell Alumni Association (LAA) maintains and enhances relationships that serve and support our alumni, students, school and the Lowell community.1. Scholarships: The LAA awards a number of scholarships each year to graduating seniors. Most scholarships are one-time awards, although a few are multi-year awards. The LAA Scholarship Committee solicits applications from graduating seniors and selects awardees, sometimes in consultation with Lowell High School faculty/staff.2. ADVOCACY: THE LAA ENGAGES IN PUBLIC ADVOCACY IN SUPPORT OF LOWELL HIGH SCHOOL'S CONTINUED EXISTENCE AS AN ACADEMIC PUBLIC MAGNET HIGH SCHOOL WITH OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC AND EXTRACURRICULAR PROGRAMS TO SERVE STUDENTS FROM THROUGHOUT SAN FRANCISCO.3. Reunions: The LAA encourages alumni to hold regular class reunions and provides support to class reunion committees.4. Grants and gifts: Upon application by Lowell faculty, staff and coaches, and with approval of the LAA Board of Directors, the LAA makes grants and gifts
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grants Program/AwardsTwice each year, we solicit grant requests from Lowell faculty, staff and coaches to fund projects that supplement Lowell High Schools academic and extracurricular programs. Our Grant Committee evaluates the requests and makes funding recommendations to the LAA Board of Directors for their review and approval.In prior years, we did not recognize the expense until it was paid out; however, we changed this reporting in this fiscal year to recognize the expense when incurred (i.e. awarded). Of the $349,670 expense, $308,901 represents payments for prior year and this years awards and $40,769 represents this years awards that were not paid out at the end of the year.
$349,670 spentof which $349,670 as grants49% of program spendingScholarshipsEach year, the Lowell Alumni Association solicits applications for our college scholarship program from graduating seniors. Our Scholarship Committee then reviews those applications, conducts interviews and makes final selections of recipients in May.
$246,883 spentof which $246,883 as grants34% of program spendingPrograms ServicesThe Lowell Alumni Association communicates regularly with our more than 33,000 alumni, former faculty and other friends of Lowell High School. We also supported and facilitated a significant number of class reunions this fiscal. In addition to alumni services, the LAA developed a program named LEAD that reaches out to middle school students who have the desire and potential to attend Lowell High School that brings these students to Lowell for tutoring by Lowell High School students. This program that started with one (1) school has expanded to two (2) middle schools. The LAA Executive Director supports those efforts as well as various alumni relations activities, including alumni participation in Lowells annual commencement exercises and Lowell High School performing arts and athletic events.
$121,216 spent$95,104 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $717,769.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $7.9M to $6.5M (−17%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
60% of Lowell Alumni Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $241k → $262k.
11 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 89% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Lowell Alumni Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Lowell Alumni Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Lowell Alumni Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 78% · 2019 59% · 2020 60% · 2021 60% · 2022 56% · 2023 51% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
48% of Lowell Alumni Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of Lowell Alumni Association's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $244k that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Lowell Alumni Association receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.3M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Lowell Alumni Association
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Lowell Alumni Association?
- Lowell Alumni Association (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,271,328 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($1,339,195). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 89% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lowell Alumni Association have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $2,271,328 in grants to Lowell Alumni Association, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lowell Alumni Association?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $1,339,195 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lowell Alumni Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing