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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.

$312k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,600
Largest grant, FY2025
$30,000
Organizations funded a year
12 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Lawrence a Appley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationReligionArts & CultureCrime & LegalHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving21$312k24%
FY202420$323k20%
FY202320$310k40%
FY202214$218k36%
FY202120$259k25%
FY202017$259k41%
FY201913$147k15%
FY201812$125k33%
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$533kEducation$302kReligion$230kArts & Culture$196kInternational$153kFood & Nutrition$110kYouth Development$97kHealth$60kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YMCA of San Diego County$180,00080%
Youth Without Borders Inc$112,500354%
Artreach Inc$112,00085%
Covenant Pathways$110,000411%
Old Pine Community Center$110,00058%
Girls Rising$96,834513%
First Congregational Church of Pasadena$90,0009n/a
Northfield Mount Hermon School$90,00090%
Bark$55,00052%
Call to Safety$55,00051%
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All grantees of Lawrence a Appley Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
YMCA of San Diego County$180,00080%
Youth Without Borders Inc$112,500354%
Artreach Inc$112,00085%
Covenant Pathways$110,000411%
Old Pine Community Center$110,00058%
Girls Rising$96,834513%
First Congregational Church of Pasadena$90,0009n/a
Northfield Mount Hermon School$90,00090%
Bark$55,00052%
Call to Safety$55,00051%
Crisis House$50,00021%
North County African American Women's Association$50,000514%
Aveson$47,50050%
Community Bikes$45,0003n/a
Pilgrim Place$45,00050%
Tech Impact$45,00020%
Holy Family Services Adoption and Foster Care$42,50044%
Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education$37,50031%
The Children's Book Bank$37,50031%
Human Trafficking Coalition of the Palm Beaches$35,000319%
Banding Together$30,00037%
Austin Pets Alive Inc$30,00030%
TERI Inc$30,00030%
Children International$30,00040%
Investigative Newsource$21,11121%
St Andrew Nativity School$17,5001n/a
The Fid Group Friends in Deed$17,50020%
Smart Reading$12,50010%
Projects for a Civil Society$12,5001n/a
Friends of Alice Birney Elementary School$10,00017%
National Black Trans Advocacy Coalition$10,0001n/a
Community Partners$10,00010%
My Refuge House$10,00012%
Haverford School$10,00010%
Ohio Wesleyan University$10,00010%
Artreach$10,00011%
Tphs Scholarship Fund Inc$7,00028%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($333k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lawrence a Appley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYMCA of San Diego County: $180,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Without Borders Inc: $112,500 over 3y, 54% of budgetArtreach Inc: $112,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetCovenant Pathways: $110,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetOld Pine Community Center: $110,000 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetGirls Rising: $96,834 over 5y, 13% of budgetNorthfield Mount Hermon School: $90,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBark: $55,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCall to Safety: $55,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCrisis House: $50,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNorth County African American Women's Association: $50,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetAveson: $47,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPilgrim Place: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTech Impact: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHoly Family Services Adoption and Foster Care: $42,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetOregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education: $37,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetThe Children's Book Bank: $37,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHuman Trafficking Coalition of the Palm Beaches: $35,000 over 3y, 19% of budgetBanding Together: $30,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetAustin Pets Alive Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTERI Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren International: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInvestigative Newsource: $21,111 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Fid Group Friends in Deed: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSmart Reading: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends of Alice Birney Elementary School: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetCommunity Partners: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Refuge House: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHaverford School: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOhio Wesleyan University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtreach: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTphs Scholarship Fund Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 7.8% 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 32.

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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.

Sempra FoundationCA20.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Lawrence a Appley Foundation

How much does Lawrence a Appley Foundation give?
Lawrence a Appley Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $312,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Lawrence a Appley Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (26%), Education (15%), Religion (11%).
Who are Lawrence a Appley Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: YMCA of San Diego County ($180k), Youth Without Borders Inc ($113k), Artreach Inc ($112k).
Does Lawrence a Appley Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lawrence a Appley Foundation 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.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lawrence a Appley Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation.
Where is Lawrence a Appley Foundation based?
Lawrence a Appley Foundation is based in PA.

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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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