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Lawlor Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2026
10
Organizations funded FY2025
0%
First-time grantees FY2025
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Median grant, FY2026
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2026
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 13
FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$341k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 0% of the organizations Lawlor Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving10$17k0%
FY202510$17k0%
FY202411$18k9%
FY202312$19k33%
FY202211$19k9%
FY202112$21k33%
FY202010$19k0%
FY201913$18k31%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Human Services$56kEducation$42kHousing & Shelter$19kFood & Nutrition$14kHealth$13kPublic Benefit$10kRecreation & Sports$6kCommunity Improvement$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Concerned Dewitt Citizens Ltd$27,00052%
City of Dewitt$10,0005n/a
Cafe on Vine$8,00050%
Crossroads Health Foundation$5,00031%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa$4,00040%
Vince Jetter Community Center Inc$3,0003n/a
Life Connections Peer Recovery Serv$3,00030%
Dewitt Volunteer Fire Department$2,00040%
Clinton County Agricultural Society$2,00010%
Junior Achievement of the Heartland Inc$80010%

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($121k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawlor Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetConcerned Dewitt Citizens Ltd: $27,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCafe on Vine: $8,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCrossroads Health Foundation: $5,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Central Iowa: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLife Connections Peer Recovery Serv: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDewitt Volunteer Fire Department: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetClinton County Agricultural Society: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement of the Heartland Inc: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Community Foundation of Greater DubuqueIA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque · Amazonsmile 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.

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About Lawlor Family Charitable Trust

How much does Lawlor Family Charitable Trust give?
Lawlor Family Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $16,852 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Lawlor Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (30%), Education (23%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Lawlor Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: Concerned Dewitt Citizens Ltd ($27k), City of Dewitt ($10k), Cafe on Vine ($8k).
Does Lawlor Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2025, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lawlor Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lawlor Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Greater Dubuque, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lawlor Family Charitable Trust based?
Lawlor Family Charitable Trust is based in IA.

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 31 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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