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David & Katherine Lawrence Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DENVER ART MUSEUM LEADERSHIP FUND | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF DENVER | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRAVO VAIL | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF DENVER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| THE BRIDGE TRUST | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER ASSOC COLO CHAPTER INC | $1,000 |
| BETTY FORD ALPINE GARDENS | $1,000 |
| DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE SCIENCE | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL CITY OPERA | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF DENVER3× · 2023–2025 · $98k · revenue +8%
- TBTHE BRIDGE TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +2%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM7× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CCCOLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -95%
- UWUNITED WAY INCone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +8%
- AGALPINE GARDEN VAILone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…
At colorado college our goal is to provide the finest liberal arts education in the country. drawing upon the adventurous spirit of the rocky mountain west, we challenge students, one course at a time, to develop those habits of intellect…
The mission of the denver film society is to develop opportunities for diverse audiences to discover film through creative, thought-provoking experiences. we strive to cultivate and celebrate film as an art form; to enrich and expand the…
The mission of dc bilingual public charter school is to create a learning community that ensures high academic achievement for all students in both spanish and english, develops leadership, and values all cultures.
The mission of the alexander dawson foundation is to establish, operate and maintain an educational organization that will provide students with the highest quality education, nurture future leaders, prepare young adults to excel in…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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."
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Denver Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is The Bridge Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 34 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
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 UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds DENVER SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLORADO ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Betty Ford Alpine Gardens ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART DENVER ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds COLORADO COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds OPERA COLORADO ↗
- Who funds SHE-CAN GLOBAL 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: The Denver Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 David & Katherine Lawrence 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.
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.
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