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Edward & Lee Lawrence Foundation at a glance

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Edward & Lee Lawrence 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.

$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$88kHealth$36kHousing & Shelter$33kInternational$32kFood & Nutrition$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCommunity Improvement$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$10,000
EMMAUS INC$1,500
SHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FD$500
ACTION INC$500
NSCAP$500
NORTH FORK BREAST HEALTH COALITION$250
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 (FY18–24, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ACTION INC: $500 → 10%ACTION INC: $500 → 10%ACTION INC: $500 → 10%PETTINGILL HOUSE INC: $500 → 10%EMMAUS INC: $3k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $3k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $3k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $2k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $2k → 10%EMMAUS INC: $500 → 10%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $2k → 10%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $7k → 10%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $7k → 10%MA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $7k → 10%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$187k · 12 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$187k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+23%

Still filing today

75%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 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
Human ServicesInternationalEducationCrime & LegalPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
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

  • TG
    The George Washington University
    7× · 2017–2023 · $85k · revenue +30%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +89%
  • Care Dimensions Inc
    6× · 2017–2023 · $26k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • HO
    Hospice of the North Shore
    one grant, 2019 · $8k
  • TC
    THE CABOT THEATER
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +26%
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
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
3
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
4
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
5
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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6
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
7
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
9
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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11
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
12
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Shore Community Action Programs Inc; the most unlike its peers is Shelter Island Ambulance Foundation. 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

15 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. 15 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The George Washington University: $85,000 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityCare Dimensions Inc: $26,000 · OtherCare Dimensions IncHospice of the North Shore: $7,500 · OtherHospice of the North Shor…Pace High School Scholarship Fund: $3,000 · OtherPace High School Scholars…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK …+8 more: $6,016 · Other+8 moreMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $21,501 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS COALI…EMMAUS INC: $11,500 · Human ServicesEMMAUS INCACTION INC: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRO…OXFAM-AMERICA INC: $4,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCSHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Public Safety & DisasterESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $1,500 · EnvironmentSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 · Crime & LegalNORTH FORK BREAST HEALTH COALITION INC: $250 · Arts & Culture
Education$85,000Other$45,516Human Services$35,001International$32,000Public Safety & Disaster$2,000Environment$1,500Crime & Legal$1,000Arts & Culture$250

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe George Washington University: $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $21,501 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEMMAUS INC: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER ISLAND AMBULANCE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pettengill House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMY BROTHER'S TABLE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH FORK BREAST HEALTH COALITION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Essex County Communit…Salem Five Charitable…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Massachusetts Bankers…Institution for Savin…Boston Foundation IncNetwork for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Edward & Lee Lawrence Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edward & Lee Lawrence Foundation. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Action Programs Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Action Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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How do I get to Edward & Lee Lawrence Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward & Lee Lawrence Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 23 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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