· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WETA | $2,000 |
| Maryland Public Television | $1,750 |
| Susan G Komen | $1,500 |
| Nature Forward Woodend Sanctuary | $1,500 |
| Georgetown Univ Lombardi Cancer Center | $1,500 |
| Frederick Health Hospice | $1,000 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | $1,000 |
| John Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center | $1,000 |
| Univ of Iowa Pedi Neurosurgery Fund | $1,000 |
| National Park Foundation | $1,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of Maryland | $750 |
| American Battlefield Trust | $750 |
| Chesapeake Bay Foundation | $750 |
| Thomas Jefferson Foundation | $750 |
| Montgomery Hospice | $500 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- JFJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS2× · 2020–2023 · $8k · revenue +55%
- GWGREATER WASHINGTON EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +30%
- FHFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- GLGeorgetown Lombardi Cancer Centerone grant, 2021 · $1k
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INCone grant, 2020 · $750 · revenue -8%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $750
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and 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.
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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 54 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 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 MONTGOMERY HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds FREDERICK RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American Battlefield Trust ↗
- Who funds Nature Forward ↗
- Who funds The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DWELLING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BROOKSIDE GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS 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: 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
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 Robert J & Frances V Lawrence Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- 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
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.