How much did EDWARD & THEA LAWTON FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of EDWARD & THEA LAWTON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k24 grants · $52k
$10k–50k2 grants · $25k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$10,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
HIAS$5,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$3,000
LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY$3,000
LUPUS FOUNDATION$3,000
LIFT FOR LIFE$3,000
NAMI OF MISSOURI$2,000
ST LOUIS PUBLIC RADIO$2,000
NINE NETWORK$2,000
WOMEN'S VOICES RAISED FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$2,000
MIRIAM SCHOOL$2,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20% — the area typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$872k · 62 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

62 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 39 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$872k

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%

Still filing today

35%

21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther

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

CC
CROWN CENTER
4× · 2018–2021 · $156k · revenue +121%
LB
LAUGHING BEAR BAKERY
5× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +58%
H
HIAS
4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +191%

Funded once

HC
HAWAI'I COMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2024 · $10k
SL
ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
one grant, 2021 · $3k
NF
NORTHWEST FILM FESTIVAL - BIG SONIA
one grant, 2018 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

St Louis Jewish Light

The st. louis jewish light is a non-profit, independent news source whose mission is to inform, inspire, educate, and connect the st. louis jewish community.

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St Louis Community Foundation

Administer charitable funds for the betterment of st. louis

Philanthropy

Jewish Community Center

To provide health and welfare services to the st. louis community

Human Services

Casa of St Louis

Advocate for abused and neglected children in st. louis

Civil Rights

Jewish Family Services of St Louis

Jfs operates a food pantry and a child abuse prevention program and provides clinical, older adult, and safety-net services.

Human Services

Bethesda Services Inc

Premier provider of care and services for seniors in the st. louis region.

Health

Nami St Louis

NAMI St. Louis provides education, advocacy, and support essential to the recovery, resilience, and well-being of all who have mental health needs and for their families, caregivers, and the community.

Health

St Louis Arc Inc

Services and supports for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Human Services

Bethesda Senior Living Inc

Premier provider of care and services for seniors in the st. louis region.

Housing & Shelter

Greater St Louis Inc

Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…

Community Improvement

St Louis Life

Enable individuals with developmental disabilities to achieve the highest level of independent living and live a full and enriched life.

Housing & Shelter

Art Saint Louis

Creating and presenting original exhibitions, educational programming and support services.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Good Shepherd Children & Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Hias Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

11%

1,844/16,696

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

26/26

Grantees still filing

21/26

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$616,950Housing & Shelter$161,000Human Services$40,000Health$32,100Education$26,000International$20,000Philanthropy$9,000

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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO46.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Employees of Community Fund · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Centene Foundation · Sam and Marilyn Fox Foundation · Norman J Stupp Foundation · Jewish Federation of St Louis · Moneta Group Charitable 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 organisation EDWARD & THEA LAWTON 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 546166130 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 31% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Edward & Thea Lawton Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Edward & Thea Lawton Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EDWARD & THEA LAWTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward & Thea Lawton Foundation?

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EDWARD & THEA LAWTON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

26 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Edward & Thea Lawton Foundation?

More from the funding graph