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Cathy and Christopher Lawrence Charitable Trust at a glance

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Cathy and Christopher Lawrence Charitable Trust

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.

$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

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

International$304kArts & Culture$213kEducation$190kHealth$121kReligion$39kRecreation & Sports$23kPhilanthropy$14kEnvironment$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $68k
$1,628
Median grant
2
States reached
$198k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY$34,678
AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE$20,031
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$12,873
PLAYWRIGHT HORIZONS$4,865
THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE$2,750
CONGREGATION EMANUEL$1,800
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$1,628
HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC$1,000
THE CHAPIN SCHOOL$1,000
PECONIC LAND TRUST$200
THE SOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION$150
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$100
THE SOUTHAMPTON GARDEN CLUB$100
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $500 → 9%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $500 → 9%THE JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $11k → 17%HEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE: $5k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $60k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $60k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $40k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $35k → 17%Children's Aid Society: $32k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $15k → 17%Mount Sinai Health System: $500 → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$830k · 35 repeat orgs$103k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
38

Total granted

$830k
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+19%

Still filing today

66%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentInternationalOther
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

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $283k · revenue +65%
  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $102k · revenue +43%
  • COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • PH
    PLAYWRIGHT HORIZONS
    one grant, 2017 · $40k
  • JB
    JEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2018 · $11k · revenue +5%
  • TE
    TEMPLE EMANU-EL
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
Manhattan School of Music

Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…

Arts & Culture
4
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
5
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
6
Municipal Art Society of New York

The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…

Arts & Culture
7
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
8
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
9
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
10
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
The Long Island Museum of American Art History & Carriages

The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Playwrights Horizons Inc; the most unlike its peers is Southampton Rose Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 77 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)
46/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $282,650 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETYJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $10,500 · Human Services+3 more: $6,356 · Human ServicesCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $87,393 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL IN…New York University: $79,621 · EducationNew York University+4 more: $5,500 · EducationMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $52,823 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM …PLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $43,074 · Arts & CulturePLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS…NATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $29,894 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL THEATRE IN …WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $19,654 · Arts & CultureWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AM…THEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $11,454 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR A NEW AU…+9 more: $9,505 · Arts & Culture+9 morePLAYWRIGHT HORIZONS: $40,471 · OtherPLAYWRIGHT HORIZONSCONGREGATION EMANUEL: $30,090 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANUE…SOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB: $16,800 · OtherSOUTHAMPTON BATH & …The Education Alliance: $16,300 · OtherThe Education Allia…THE CARL SCHURZ CONSERVANCY: $7,625 · OtherTEMPLE EMANU-EL: $7,310 · OtherNY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $5,400 · OtherCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,325 · Other+35 more: $26,340 · Other+35 moreNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $102,058 · HealthNYU LANGONE …+3 more: $3,900 · HealthATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $14,500 · InternationalTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY: $5,000 · InternationalFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000 · International+1 more: $150 · InternationalUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $11,700 · Philanthropy
Human Services$299,506Education$172,514Arts & Culture$166,404Other$156,661Health$105,958International$20,650Philanthropy$11,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $282,650 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $102,058 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $87,393 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $79,621 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $52,823 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS HORIZONS INC: $43,074 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL THEATRE IN AMERICA INC: $29,894 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $19,654 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC COUNCIL OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $11,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $11,454 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH BOARD OF FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,325 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALEXANDER HAMILTON SOCIETY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $4,909 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH ADVOCATES FOR OLDER PEOPLE INC: $4,856 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE DRAWING CENTER INC: $4,070 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON FRESH AIR HOME: $2,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC BAYKEEPER INC: $2,070 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON GARDEN CLUB INC: $1,600 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetHOMEWORK HELPERS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ROSE SOCIETY: $1,050 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPIN SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREIGN POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC ROYAL PALACES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCOA INC: $700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetICE THEATRE OF NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH REPERTORY THEATRE COMPANYINC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUTCHESS LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHAMPTON ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END I: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $93 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc: $60 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…Audrey and Martin Gru…The Meryl & Charles W…The Fanwood FoundationNational Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jewish Communal FundNY15.5× affinity7 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 · Audrey and Martin Gruss Foundation · The Meryl & Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation · The Fanwood Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cathy and Christopher Lawrence Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cathy and Christopher Lawrence Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 77 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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