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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $309k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BANGOR REGION YMCA | $1,400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $123,573 |
| CAMP CAPELLA | $100,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHT EMMC FOUNDATION | $85,000 |
| GRANGE GRAPPLER CLUB | $40,000 |
| THE BAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| BLUE HILL LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF HANCOCK COUNTY | $3,000 |
| DOWNEAST WOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| COTTONTAIL COTTAGE FARM SANCTUARY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 93% of those 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.
40 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M 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
- GSGood Shepherd Food Bank8× · 2018–2025 · $76k · revenue +83%
- BHBLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST6× · 2019–2025 · $57k · revenue +126%
- MGMAINE GROCERS & FOOD PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TBTHE BANGOR REGIONAL YMCAone grant, 2023 · $200k
- ERELLSWORTH ROTARY CLUBone grant, 2024 · $35k
- AFACADIA FIRE SOCCER CLUBone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Penobscot Community Health Center (PCHC) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 1997 that is governed by a Board of community volunteers and is the largest Federally Qualified Health Center in Maine. PCHC is driven by its mission…
Bangor Historical Society's Mission is to share the region's rich history with the community and its visitors through research, education and programs.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
VNA Home Health & Hospice d/b/a Northern Light Home Care & Hospice provides clinically excellent, compassionate home health and hospice care to individuals and families
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
The Hospital is a not-for-profit entity established to provide health care services through its acute care facility and physician practices.
The primary mission and significant activities of Acadia Hospital, Corp. d/b/a Northern Light Acadia Hospital are the provision of inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and mental health services to children, adolescents, and adults.
To care for and serve our community by providing Healthcare Services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Downeast Community Partners Inc and the most unlike its peers is Acadia Choral Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 23. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 15% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 78 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 BANGOR YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP CAPELLA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MAINE GROCERS & FOOD PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE BAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BANGOR AREA HOMELESS SHELTER ↗
- Who funds ISLAND NURSING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH & WELLNESS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNEAST COMMUNITY PARTNERS 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: 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
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 Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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