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Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable 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.

$4k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
67%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$300
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,200
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$74k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 66% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$4k8%
FY202312$4k67%
FY20225$5k40%
FY20215$5k80%
FY20201$3k0%
FY20193$4k33%
FY20183$4k0%
FY20173$4kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$14kAnimals$5kHuman Services$3kReligion$3kHealth$3kFood & Nutrition$2kInternational$900Public Safety & Disaster$800Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park Inc$5,32530%
Samaritan Center Inc$2,26640%
World Central Kitchen Inc$80010%
Save The Children Federation Inc$60020%
Interfaith Works of Central New York$40010%
Hillside Foundation$40020%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$30020%
Aurora of Central New York Inc$20020%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($23k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFriends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park Inc: $5,325 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan Center Inc: $2,266 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInterfaith Works of Central New York: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillside Foundation: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAurora of Central New York Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

The John Ben Snow Fou…The Rosamond Gifford …Central New York Comm…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The John Ben Snow Foundation IncNY13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc · The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation · Central New York Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation

How much does Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation give?
Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $3,700 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (43%), Animals (16%), Human Services (10%).
Who are Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Friends of the Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Park Inc ($5k), Samaritan Center Inc ($2k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($800).
Does Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable 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 Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The John Ben Snow Foundation Inc, The Rosamond Gifford Charitable Corporation, Central New York Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation based?
Bernard J & Jeanne M Lawler Family Charitable Foundation is based in NY.

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 19 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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