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Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$750
Largest grant, FY2025
$2,000
Organizations funded a year
25 to 26
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$533k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$23k15%
FY202426$20k12%
FY202325$19k20%
FY202225$20k28%
FY202125$16k32%
FY202025$20kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$42kArts & Culture$34kEnvironment$20kHuman Services$12kHousing & Shelter$8kAnimals$2kPhilanthropy$1kScience & Tech$750Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
VA
MD
KS
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($39k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohn F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFisher House Foundation Inc: $4,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFrederick Health Hospice Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetChesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRails to Trails Conservancy: $3,650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson Foundation Inc: $3,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion & Choices: $3,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Alopecia Areata Foundation: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMontgomery Hospice Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: $2,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFrederick Rescue Mission Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNature Forward: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Battlefield Trust: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Brookside Gardens Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Alliance to End Homelessness: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dwelling Place Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Union of Concerned Scientists Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Public Radio Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

Nora Roberts FoundationMD15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nora Roberts Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc

How much does Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc give?
Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc reported 28 grants totaling $23,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 26 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (35%), Arts & Culture (28%), Environment (16%).
Who are Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ($8k), Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc ($7k), Fisher House Foundation Inc ($4k).
Does Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc 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 Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nora Roberts Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Network for Good.
Where is Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc based?
Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc is based in MD.

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 54 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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