· Private foundation
Lawrence a Hanson 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MAESTRO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL GIVING FOUNDATION | $1,624 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $1,608 |
| UPPER PENINSULA ANIMAL WELFARE SHELTER | $1,608 |
| THE LANGE FOUNDATION | $1,608 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $1,600 |
| OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $1,300 |
| GRID INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM | $300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +34%- LFLANGE FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +82%
- TMTHE MAESTRO FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $2k
- TSTHE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +130%
- AFACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIAone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -5%
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.
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.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
To protect and extend civil liberties and civil rights by supporting the aclu-wa foundation.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MAESTRO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Monica Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds UPPER PENINSULA ANIMAL WELFARE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HEAL THE BAY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA MONICA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lawrence a Hanson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence a Hanson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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