· Private foundation
Lawrence a Appley Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT PATHWAYS | $30,000 |
| TECH IMPACT | $25,000 |
| YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY | $25,000 |
| GIRLS RISING | $24,400 |
| CRISIS HOUSE | $20,000 |
| ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF PASADENA | $20,000 |
| PALOMAR COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL | $17,500 |
| COMMUNITY BIKES | $15,000 |
| CHILDRENS BOOK BANK | $12,500 |
| REINS | $10,600 |
| MY REFUGE HOUSE | $10,000 |
| ARTREACH | $10,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| BANDING TOGETHER | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $700k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- YOYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +103%
- AIARTREACH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +11%
- OPOLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER5× · 2018–2023 · $110k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- PUPASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FBO PADADENA HS DRAMA CLUBone grant, 2024 · $15k
- URUS ROWING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
SMART READINGone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
The mission of the san diego cooperative preschool is to provide the highest quality care, while creating a nurturing and supportive community of children, parents, and highly skilled staff. through a play-based program that attends to the…
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…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
Our mission is to educate the whole child using a combination of innovative curriculum and instruction along with social/emotional education embedded in the program. students will be enabled to reach their innate intellectual, creative,…
Wns is committed to creating a deeply caring community of lifelong learners that nurtures students from diverse backgrounds to reach their full potential, develop cultural competency, and inspire the world with their curiosity, innovation,…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
To partner with youth, families, adults and communities to reach their full potential and is achieved through comprehensive and integrated programming in the areas of child and youth development; youth, adult and family wellness and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children International and the most unlike its peers is National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 33 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds COVENANT PATHWAYS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS RISING ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BARK ↗
- Who funds CALL TO SAFETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CRISIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds AVESON ↗
- Who funds PILGRIM PLACE ↗
- Who funds TECH IMPACT ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY SERVICES ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE ↗
- Who funds OREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK ↗
- Who funds HUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION OF THE PALM BEACHES ↗
- Who funds BANDING TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds Children International ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TERI Inc ↗
- Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
- Who funds THE FID GROUP FRIENDS IN DEED ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Autzen Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organization Lawrence a Appley 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Call to Safety — 61% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Bark — 2% of income from government
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 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.