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John H & Amy Bowles Lawrence Foundation at a glance

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John H & Amy Bowles 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.

$126k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$390kHealth$176kReligion$122kScience & Tech$82kFood & Nutrition$52kArts & Culture$48kSocial Science$21kHuman Services$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$34,500
UCSF FOUNDATION$30,000
ST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
ALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$5,000
SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY$4,000
UC REGENTS$4,000
GRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$4,000
COLORADO COLLEGE$3,000
ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
PARK THEATER TRUST$3,000
ST ALBAN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$3,000
PILLERS OF HOPE INC$3,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
REDWOODS MONASTERY$2,000
UNIV OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOUTH HOMES INC: $1k → 9%WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $2k → 9%YOUTH HOMES INC: $1k → 9%CARMEL FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $2k → 9%CARMEL FOUNDATION: $4k → 12%WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $1k → 9%CARMEL FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%DELTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3k → 9%DELTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $3k → 9%DELTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2k → 9%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 9%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 9%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 9%VILLAGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
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ID
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CT
CA
CO
MO
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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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$848k · 47 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

47 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

47
20

Total granted

$848k
$77k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+21%

Still filing today

55%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • CT
    COLLEGE TRACK
    3× · 2020–2023 · $97k · revenue +79%
  • TH
    THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +31%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $42k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • BJ
    BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · $20k
  • PI
    PAHSIMEROI IDAHO VOL FIRE DEP
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • AF
    ARCS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
2
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
California Institute of Integral Studies

Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…

Education
5
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
6
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
7
The Seven Hills School

The institution provides educational instruction and activities to students ranging from preschool through 8th grade.

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8
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
9
Pitzer College

Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…

Education
10
University of Redlands

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Education
11
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Meals On Wheels Contra Costa Inc. 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

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 73 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
30/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $90,000 · OtherTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOLUNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA: $77,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIAALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherALL SAINTS EPISCOPAL CHURCHUC REGENTS: $29,000 · OtherUC REGENTSST THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25,500 · OtherBEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherGRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $19,000 · OtherUNIV OF CHICAGO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $17,000 · Other+39 more: $191,000 · Other+39 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $101,100 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO…COLLEGE TRACK: $97,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACKUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $41,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $29,300 · EducationTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL+9 more: $67,100 · Education+9 moreSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $31,000 · Arts & CultureThe Park Theater Trust: $9,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $34,500 · HealthSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthThe Carmel Foundation: $11,000 · Human ServicesDELTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesVillage Community Resource Center: $6,000 · Human ServicesWOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $4,000 · Human ServicesYouth Homes Inc: $2,000 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $19,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Animals
Other$503,500Education$336,000Arts & Culture$41,000Health$37,000Human Services$31,000Food & Nutrition$24,000Animals$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $101,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $97,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION: $41,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $34,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL: $29,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $19,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBARNARD COLLEGE: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carmel Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOWLES HALL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $10,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLORADO COLLEGE: $9,700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $9,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Park Theater Trust: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDELTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCHALLIS AREA HEALTH CENTER INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVillage Community Resource Center: $6,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPILLARS OF HOPE INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetCATE SCHOOL: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTANBRIDGE ACADEMY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF: $4,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Homes Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGILROY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREAT STAR THEATER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHILLSIDE HEALTH CARE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE TRACK ↗
  • Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF LAGUNA SECA ↗
  • Who funds THE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Carmel Foundation ↗
  • Who funds BOWLES HALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The Park Theater Trust ↗
  • Who funds DELTA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHALLIS AREA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Village Community Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…The Yelp FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Lowell Berry Foundati…Marin Community Found…United Way WorldwideIbm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…Morgan Stanley Global…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…
The San Francisco FoundationCA16.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Lowell Berry Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation

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 John H & Amy Bowles Lawrence Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John H & Amy Bowles Lawrence Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 73 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home