Maine · Private foundation
Lawrence Family 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Lawrence Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 27 | $1.9M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $380k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $363k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $83k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $116k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $51k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $87k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $34k | 65% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bangor Young Men's Christian Association | $1,400,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Camp Capella Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 20% |
| The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital | $85,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $76,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Holden Historical Society | $68,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Blue Hill Heritage Trust | $57,028 | 6 | 6% |
| Grange Grappler Club | $50,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Maine Grocers & Food Producers Association | $28,000 | 3 | 11% |
| The Bay School | $26,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Bangor Area Homeless Shelter | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lawrence Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · Heart of Maine United Way · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Prior Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Lawrence Family Foundation
- How much does Lawrence Family Foundation give?
- Lawrence Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $1,876,623 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lawrence Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (54%), Health (9%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are Lawrence Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bangor Young Men's Christian Association ($1.4M), Camp Capella Inc ($100k), The Blue Hill Memorial Hospital Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital ($85k).
- Does Lawrence Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawrence Family 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 Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Bangor Savings Bank Foundation, Fisher Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Lawrence Family Foundation based?
- Lawrence Family Foundation is based in ME.
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