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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 FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $310k
$10,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COVENANT PATHWAYS$30,000
YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$25,000
TECH IMPACT$25,000
GIRLS RISING$24,400
ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF PASADENA$20,000
CRISIS HOUSE$20,000
PALOMAR COLLEGE$20,000
ST ANDREW NATIVITY SCHOOL$17,500
COMMUNITY BIKES$15,000
CHILDRENS BOOK BANK$12,500
REINS$10,600
AUSTIN PETS ALIVE$10,000
HOLY FAMILY SERVICES$10,000
BANDING TOGETHER$10,000
MY REFUGE HOUSE$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COVENANT PATHWAYS: $30k → 32%COVENANT PATHWAYS: $30k → 32%COVENANT PATHWAYS: $20k → 32%COVENANT PATHWAYS: $30k → 32%YOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS: $80k → 11%YOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS: $23k → 11%OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $50k → 22%YOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS: $10k → 11%OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 22%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%HOLY FAMILY SERVICES ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE: $13k → 14%OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 22%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%HOLY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 22%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%HOLY FAMILY SERVICES ADOPTION & FOSTER CARE: $10k → 14%OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 22%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%HOLY FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%PILGRIM PLACE IN CLAREMONT: $25k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $25k → 11%PILGRIM PLACE IN CLAREMONT: $5k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $20k → 11%PILGRIM PLACE IN CLAREMONT: $5k → 14%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $10k → 11%PILGRIM PLACE IN CLAREMONT: $5k → 14%PILGRIM PLACE IN CLAREMONT: $5k → 14%NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%CHRISIS HOUSE: $30k → 11%CRISIS HOUSE: $20k → 11%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

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
MO
DE
NM
TX
FL
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 33 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
13

Total granted

$1.9M
$148k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+53%

Still filing today

73%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalReligionEnvironmentOther
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +103%
  • AI
    ARTREACH INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $112k · revenue +11%
  • CP
    COVENANT PATHWAYS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $110k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • UR
    US ROWING ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • PU
    PASADENA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT FBO PADADENA HS DRAMA CLUB
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • SMART READING
    one grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -19%
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
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
Ucp San Diego

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…

Education
3
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
4
Presidio Hill School

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…

Education
5
Bridges Charter School

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,…

Education
6
Westside Neighborhood School

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,…

Education
7
The Peak School

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…

Education
8
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
9
The Archer School for Girls Inc

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…

Education
10
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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11
Utah's Promise

Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.

Philanthropy
12
Social Advocates for Youth San Diego Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children International; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
25/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $180,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTYYOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $112,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS INCCOVENANT PATHWAYS: $110,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT PATHWAYSOLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER: $110,000 · Human ServicesOLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTERGIRLS RISING: $96,834 · Human ServicesGIRLS RISINGCALL TO SAFETY: $55,000 · Human ServicesCALL TO SAFETYCRISIS HOUSE: $50,000 · Human ServicesCRISIS HOUSENORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: $50,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIAT…PILGRIM PLACE: $45,000 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY SERVICES ADOPTION AND FOSTER CARE: $42,500 · Human ServicesFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PASADENA: $90,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF PASA…ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF PASADENA: $65,000 · OtherECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF PASADENAPALOMAR COLLEGE: $60,000 · OtherPALOMAR COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $48,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOMMUNITY BIKES: $45,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY BIKESFRIENDS IN DEED: $40,000 · OtherFRIENDS IN DEEDTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANK: $37,500 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S BOOK BANKIndividual grant recipient: $22,500 · OtherHUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION OF THE PALM BEACHES: $35,000 · OtherHUMAN TRAFFICKING COALITION OF THE …BANDING TOGETHER: $30,000 · OtherAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $30,000 · Other+13 more: $147,600 · Other+13 moreNORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL: $90,000 · EducationNORTHFIELD MO…AVESON: $47,500 · EducationAVESONTECH IMPACT: $45,000 · EducationTECH IMPACTINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE: $21,111 · EducationINVESTIGATIVE…SMART READING: $12,500 · EducationFriends of Alice Birney Elementary School: $10,000 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $7,000 · EducationARTREACH INC: $112,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON JEWISH MUSEUM AND CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: $37,500 · Arts & CultureARTREACH: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBARK: $55,000 · EnvironmentTERI Inc: $30,000 · ReligionTHE FID GROUP FRIENDS IN DEED: $17,500 · ReligionChildren International: $30,000 · InternationalMy Refuge House: $10,000 · International
Human Services$851,834Other$650,600Education$253,111Arts & Culture$159,500Environment$55,000Religion$47,500International$40,000

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 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
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 YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT PATHWAYS ↗
  • Who funds OLD PINE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS RISING ↗
  • Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BARK ↗
  • Who funds CALL TO SAFETY ↗
  • Who funds CRISIS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • 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 AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds TERI Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children International ↗
  • Who funds INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE ↗
  • Who funds THE FID GROUP FRIENDS IN DEED ↗
  • Who funds SMART READING ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Alice Birney Elementary School ↗

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 FoundationThe San Diego Foundat…The Conrad Prebys Fou…David C Copley Founda…Rancho Santa Fe Found…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Autzen FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…The Oregon Community …Raymond James Charita…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lawrence a Appley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence a Appley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Call to Safety: 61% of income from government
  • Smart Reading: 3% of income from government
  • Bark: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 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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