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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.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$458kHousing & Shelter$237kEducation$221kEmployment$98kHealth$70kHuman Services$3kPublic Benefit$2k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$154,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$53M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC$154,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE: $53k → 8%LAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $183k → 10%THE COMMUNITY GROUP: $18k → 11%COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE: $53k → 8%LOWELL COMMUNITY LOAN FUND: $50k → 10%COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE: $41k → 8%VALLEY WORKS CAREER CENTER: $42k → 10%COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE: $22k → 8%LAWRENCE PARTNERSHIP: $37k → 10%GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC: $155k → 8%MASSHIRE MERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE BOARD: $35k → 10%GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC: $90k → 8%LAWRENCE PARTNERSHIP: $12k → 10%GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC: $90k → 8%LAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $8k → 10%GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC: $45k → 8%LAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6k → 10%GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC: $25k → 8%LAWRENCE PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 10%THE COMMUNITY GROUP: $3k → 10%CITY OF LAWRENCE: $2k → 10%GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $45k → 10%GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 10%NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $15k → 10%NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $6k → 10%GREATER LAWRENCE TECHNICAL SCHOOL: $25k → 10%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$915k · 6 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$915k
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+160%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthEmploymentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • Groundwork Lawrence Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $405k · revenue +25%
  • CF
    COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $169k · revenue +141%
  • GL
    GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +501%
  • VW
    VALLEY WORKS CAREER CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $42k
  • MV
    MERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -65%
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
Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc

Greater Lawrence Community Action Council, Inc. creates opportunities by collaborating with the community and empowering individuals to achieve their goals.

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2
Community Medical Associates Inc

To provide sophisticated, high quality, and passionate patient-centered care to the general public.

Health
3
Common Ground Development Corporation

To develop, own, and operate affordable housing for low and moderate income persons and families in Lowell, Massachusetts, and other communities in Northern Massachusetts.

Housing & Shelter
4
LincolnHealth Group

LincolnHealth Group (LHG) was established to promote and support integrated & cost-effective health care services for the residents and visitors of Lincoln County, Maine.

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5
Lawrenceville Corporation

To act as a catalyst and conduit for responsible growth and reinvestment in the lawrenceville community.

Community Improvement
6
Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce

Community and economic development

Community Improvement
7
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

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…

Crime & Legal
8
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
9
Concord Area Trust for Community Housing

Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.

Housing & Shelter
10
Act Lawrence Inc

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…

Community Improvement
11
Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc

Connecticut Land Conservation Council, Inc.s mission is to elevate and strengthen land conservation in Connecticut.

Environment
12
Community Care Cooperative Inc

C3 is an fqhc governed aco participating in medicaid, medicare, and commercial value-based contracts, and developing additional services to support its mission and members.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nectar Community Investments Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Groundwork Lawrence Inc: $404,500 · Community ImprovementGroundwork Lawrence IncLawrence Partnership Inc: $53,987 · Community ImprovementLawrence Partnership IncLAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $196,704 · OtherLAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLSVALLEY WORKS CAREER CENTER: $42,000 · OtherVALLEY WORKS CAREER CENTERGREATER LAWRENCE TECHNICAL SCHOOL: $24,740 · OtherGREATER LAWRENCE TECHNICAL SCH…NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $21,000 · OtherNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLE…+2 more: $4,500 · OtherCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $169,130 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION FOR A BETTER…NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterNECTAR COMMUNITY INVES…GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $70,000 · HealthMERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $35,000 · EmploymentTHE COMMUNITY GROUP INC: $18,000 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$458,487Other$288,944Housing & Shelter$219,130Health$70,000Employment$35,000Youth Development$18,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $404,500 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $169,130 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLawrence Partnership Inc: $53,987 over 3y, 15% of budgetNECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $35,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Essex County Communit…United Way Of Massach…Eastern Bank Foundati…Health Resources in A…Nisource Charitable F…Boston Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Communityworks Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawrence Communityworks Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Lawrence Communityworks Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lawrence Communityworks Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 13 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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