New Jersey · Private foundation
Lawson Valentine Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $861k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 44 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Lawson Valentine Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 48 | $832k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 61 | $321k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 63 | $502k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 57 | $536k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 55 | $541k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 64 | $645k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 44 | $493k | 23% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $503k | 26% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third Sector New England Inc | $588,113 | 8 | 0% |
| Food Chain Workers Alliance | $228,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Nuestras Raices Inc | $200,000 | 8 | 10% |
| Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc | $195,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Grassroots International Inc | $190,800 | 9 | 1% |
| Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc | $178,359 | 8 | 3% |
| City Seed Inc | $165,000 | 7 | 8% |
| Migrant Justice Inc | $148,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Hartford Food System Inc | $125,440 | 5 | 5% |
| Toxics Action Center Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 2% |
Show all 146 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 58 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lawson Valentine Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 136 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · The Scherman Foundation Inc · Farm Aid Inc · New York Foundation · North Star Fund Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Clif Family Foundation · Movement Strategy Center
How this is measured
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About Lawson Valentine Foundation
- How much does Lawson Valentine Foundation give?
- Lawson Valentine Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $861,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 44 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lawson Valentine Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (20%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Community Improvement (12%).
- Who are Lawson Valentine Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Third Sector New England Inc ($588k), Food Chain Workers Alliance ($228k), Nuestras Raices Inc ($200k).
- Does Lawson Valentine Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lawson Valentine Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lawson Valentine Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Tides Foundation, The Scherman Foundation Inc.
- Where is Lawson Valentine Foundation based?
- Lawson Valentine Foundation is based in NJ.
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