California · Private foundation
Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence
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.
- $113k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
89% of Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Long Beach Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence funded were first-time grantees, receiving 56% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $13k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $18k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $55k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $199k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $134k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $119k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $135k | 14% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $135k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 28% |
| Mind Education | $95,000 | 4 | 0% |
| BaldenScanlin Scholarship Fund Inc | $81,000 | 4 | 75% |
| Surfing Heritage and Culture Center | $75,000 | 6 | 3% |
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($457k), not named here.
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About Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence
- How much does Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence give?
- Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence reported 2 grants totaling $113,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Philanthropy (37%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Matthew and Roberta Jenkins Family Foundation ($100k), Mind Education ($95k), BaldenScanlin Scholarship Fund Inc ($81k).
- Does Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence 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.
- Where is Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence based?
- Helping Us Help Ourselves CO Suzy Lawrence is based in CA.
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