· Public charity
Downtown Lawrence Inc
To preserve, protect, and promote downtown lawrence as the retail, service, professional, governmental, entertainment, and social center of our community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 27 grants below total $330,335 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $381,519 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,184 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k12 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $238k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUCKINGHAM PALACE INC | $28,663 |
| LADA SALON AND SPA | $23,319 |
| PAWSH WASH & PET HEALTH MARKET | $19,686 |
| BESPOKE ENTERPRISES INC | $17,500 |
| ANDERSON RENTALS | $17,129 |
| BRACKERS GOOD EARTH CLAYS INC | $14,940 |
| THE LAWRENCE COMMUNITY PHOTO STUDIO | $14,669 |
| MIDWEST SODA DISTRIBUTION LLC | $14,579 |
| TOY STORE | $14,576 |
| JAYHAWK DENTAL LLC | $13,925 |
| ELIAS CHEDIAK MD PA | $12,530 |
| TRAVELLERS INC | $12,463 |
| WAXMAN CANDLES INC | $11,760 |
| BKB LEATHER | $11,302 |
| VAN BLARICUM NEWKIRK & ADAMS DENTIS | $10,601 |
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 (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
0 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2020–2020.
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 2020–2020, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 0 of the 27 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.