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Lawrence Communityworks Inc
Lawrence communityworks (lcw) is a community development corporation that weaves together community planning, organizing, and asset-building efforts with high-quality affordable housing and commercial development to create vibrant neighborhoods and empowered residents.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC | $154,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Groundwork Lawrence Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +25%- CFCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC4× · 2017–2021 · $169k · revenue +141%
- GLGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +52%
Funded once
NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +501%- VWVALLEY WORKS CAREER CENTERone grant, 2017 · $42k
- MVMERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INCone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -65%
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.
To provide sophisticated, high quality, and passionate patient-centered care to the general public.
Lowell community health center's mission is to provide caring, quality, and culturally competent health services to the people of greater lowell, regardless of their financial status; to reduce health disparities and enhance the health of…
To develop, own, and operate affordable housing for low and moderate income persons and families in Lowell, Massachusetts, and other communities in Northern Massachusetts.
Greater lawrence community action council, inc. creates opportunities by collaborating with the community and empowering individuals to achieve their goals.
LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.
To operate and maintain an acute care general hospital. provide appropriate hospital and other related health services to all patients regardless of race, color, creed or national origin. provide access to medically necessary services for…
To act as a catalyst and conduit for responsible growth and reinvestment in the lawrenceville community.
Community and economic development
Our mission is to work to achieve social and economic justice by empowering low to moderate income populations in lawrence, ma through shared values of inclusiveness and collaboration to reclaim a voice for lawrence and advocate…
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nectar Community Investments Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Community Group Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Nisource Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Communityworks Inc 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.
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Nectar Community Investments Inc — 16% of income from government
- Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lawrence Partnership Inc — 10% of income from government
- Coalition for a Better Acre Inc — 0% 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.
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