· Private foundation
Lawson Valentine Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $223k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TSNE MISSIONWORKS | $150,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND - THE HIVE FUND | $100,000 |
| MATTAPAN FOOD AND FITNESS COALITION | $65,000 |
| NUESTRAS RAICES | $60,000 |
| MIGRANT JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE PROJECT | $50,000 |
| ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE SUCCESS (ORIS) | $40,000 |
| THOUSAND CURRENTS | $30,000 |
| NORTH STAR FUND | $25,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENTAL FUND | $20,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY & ENVIRONMENT | $20,000 |
| NEW ALTERNATIVES | $14,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $294k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
98 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 60 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $128k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $588k · revenue +44%- FCFOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +20%
- NRNUESTRAS RAICES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $200k · revenue +118%
Funded once
- TCTIDES CENTER (CORPWATCH)one grant, 2017 · $25k
COMMUNITY INITIATIVESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +254%- ACART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INCone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The Organization unleashes the creative potential of the law to protect people and the planet from corporate abuse.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Rafi challenges the root causes of unjust food systems, supporting and advocating for economically, racially and ecologically just farm communities.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.
How this is measured
154 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 154 of the 213 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD CHAIN WORKERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds NUESTRAS RAICES INC ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Avenue Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds MIGRANT JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOOD SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds RISING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Center of Theological Inquiry ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds WHEELOCK MOUNTAIN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NURSES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAGNOLIA TREE EARTH CENTER OF BEDFORD STUYVESANT ↗
- Who funds D&R GREENWAY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds South River Watershed Alliance ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CITIZEN RESEARCH GROUP INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lawson Valentine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lawson Valentine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Seed Inc: 87% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc: 53% of income from government
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc: 14% of income from government
- D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc: 9% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Nurses Foundation: 4% of income from government
- Arm in Arm Inc: 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
- Nuestras Raices Inc: 0% of income from government
- Connecticut Citizen Research Group Inc: 0% of income from government
- Migrant Justice Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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