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Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
28
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% 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
02FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$750
Median grant
9
States reached
$533k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WETA$2,000
Maryland Public Television$1,750
Nature Forward Woodend Sanctuary$1,500
Susan G Komen$1,500
Georgetown Univ Lombardi Cancer Center$1,500
John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center$1,000
National Park Foundation$1,000
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation$1,000
Frederick Health Hospice$1,000
Univ of Iowa Pedi Neurosurgery Fund$1,000
Chesapeake Bay Foundation$750
American Battlefield Trust$750
Thomas Jefferson Foundation$750
Planned Parenthood of Maryland$750
Compassion and Choices$500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Frederick Health Hospice: $1k → 6%Frederick Health Hospice: $1k → 6%Frederick Health Hospice: $750 → 6%Frederick Health Hospice: $500 → 6%Frederick Health Hospice: $750 → 6%Montgomery Hospice: $500 → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $500 → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $500 → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $500 → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $500 → 8%Montgomery Hospice: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MA
OR
IA
PA
CA
VA
MD
KS
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 34 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
14

Total granted

$106k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+4%

Still filing today

74%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    2× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +160%
  • GW
    GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +30%
  • FH
    FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GL
    Georgetown Lombardi Cancer Center
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
  • JH
    Johns Hopkins Univ-Kimmel Cancer Cn
    one grant, 2022 · $750
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $750
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
3
National Committee for Quality Assurance

Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.

Health
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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6
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
7
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
11
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
12
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Kennedy Center: $8,000 · OtherThe Kennedy CenterMaryland Public Television: $5,500 · OtherMaryland Public TelevisionGeorgetown Univ Lombardi Cancer Center: $4,500 · OtherGeorgetown Univ Lombardi Cancer CenterSusan G Komen: $4,500 · OtherSusan G KomenFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $4,200 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INCNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATIONNature Forward Woodend Sanctuary: $3,500 · OtherNature Forward Woodend SanctuaryTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $3,000 · OtherJohn Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center: $2,000 · OtherNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $2,250 · Other+19 more: $14,900 · Other+19 moreJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $8,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENT…GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER WASHINGTON …THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS JEFFERSON FO…American Battlefield Trust: $1,750 · Arts & CultureAmerican Battlefiel…+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureNational Alopecia Areata Foundation: $3,000 · HealthNational Alopec…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DIS…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC: $2,750 · HealthPLANNED PARENTH…PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANC…The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,750 · HealthThe Susan G Kom…ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · HealthARTHRITIS FOUND…+4 more: $2,000 · Health+4 moreCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $3,750 · EnvironmentRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $3,650 · EnvironmentNature Forward: $1,750 · EnvironmentFrederick Health Hospice Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesMONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $2,750 · Housing & ShelterFREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $3,250 · Civil Rights
Other$56,350Arts & Culture$20,500Health$16,500Environment$9,150Human Services$9,000Housing & Shelter$6,250Civil Rights$3,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $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 budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Frederick Health Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
  • Who funds National Alopecia Areata Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds Nature Forward ↗
  • Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
  • Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOKSIDE GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds THE DWELLING PLACE 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.

Nora Roberts Foundati…Greater Washington Co…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Nature Forward: 32% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Maryland Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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