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Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry 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.

$665k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
14
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$125,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 20
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$7.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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 arriving8$565k13%
FY20234$339k0%
FY202214$783k43%
FY202118$898k50%
FY202020$538k70%
FY20199$417k33%
FY201814$364k86%
FY20177$254kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$2.9MHealth$760kArts & Culture$209kEnvironment$115kYouth Development$50kFood & Nutrition$20kReligion$16kHuman Services$13kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CA
MO
VA
NC
DC

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
The President and Trustees of Colby College$1,105,00070%
Duke University$560,00070%
Williams College$500,00040%
Children's Hospital Corporation$400,00040%
Noble and Greenough School$275,00040%
Vital Cxns Inc$176,500429%
Bowdoin College$135,00040%
7 Lakes Alliance Inc$110,00042%
Lehigh University$110,00030%
WGBH Educational Foundation$100,00020%
Show all 34 grantees
All grantees of Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The President and Trustees of Colby College$1,105,00070%
Duke University$560,00070%
Williams College$500,00040%
Children's Hospital Corporation$400,00040%
Noble and Greenough School$275,00040%
Vital Cxns Inc$176,500429%
Bowdoin College$135,00040%
7 Lakes Alliance Inc$110,00042%
Lehigh University$110,00030%
WGBH Educational Foundation$100,00020%
Tenacre Country Day School Corporation$100,00011%
Maine Film and Video Association$70,0004n/a
Alfond Youth & Community Center$50,00021%
The Wily Network$25,00020%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$25,0001n/a
Courageous Parents Networkinc$10,00012%
Friends of Belgrade Lakes Village$10,0001n/a
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$10,00010%
City Year Inc$10,00010%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$10,00010%
Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc$7,50021%
Buddy Dog Humane Society Inc$7,50021%
The Center for Arts in Natick Inc$6,50010%
Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc$5,00010%
City of Waterville$5,0001n/a
Trustees of Charitable Donations for Inhabitants of Boston$5,00011%
Arts for Life$5,0001n/a
Solaid International Inc$3,5001n/a
Mid-Maine Global Forum$2,5001n/a
New England Innocence Project$2,50010%
Westfield State University Foundation Inc$2,50010%
Arts North Carolina Inc$2,50011%
The Posse Foundation Inc$2,50010%
The Epiphany School Inc$1,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $1,105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDuke University: $560,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $500,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNoble and Greenough School: $275,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVital Cxns Inc: $176,500 over 4y, 29% of budgetBowdoin College: $135,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget7 Lakes Alliance Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetLehigh University: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTenacre Country Day School Corporation: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAlfond Youth & Community Center: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Wily Network: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCourageous Parents Networkinc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCity Year Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImmigrant Family Services Institute Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBuddy Dog Humane Society Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Center for Arts in Natick Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCape Eleuthera Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Charitable Donations for Inhabitants of Boston: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNew England Innocence Project: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWestfield State University Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts North Carolina Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Posse Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Epiphany School Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 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 27.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA17.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Harold Alfond Foundation · Bill and Joan Alfond Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment 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 Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation

How much does Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation give?
Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $665,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (69%), Health (18%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The President and Trustees of Colby College ($1.1M), Duke University ($560k), Williams College ($500k).
Does Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry 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 Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Harold Alfond Foundation.
Where is Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation based?
Cynthia C and Seth W Lawry Family Foundation is based in MA.

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 54 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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