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The Charles & Rita Lawrence Family Fund

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.

$14k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172025.

International$16kEducation$11kHuman Services$9kYouth Development$9kFood & Nutrition$9kHealth$8kArts & Culture$7kEmployment$4kPhilanthropy$2kOther$18k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$248k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY$3,000
CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$3,000
IDEASTREAM$2,750
CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC$1,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$1,000
CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER$1,000
US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM$1,000
GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK$1,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE: $2k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $600 → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $600 → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $600 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$89k · 17 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

$89k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+57%

Still filing today

76%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +98%
  • I
    IDEASTREAM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +34%
  • GC
    GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +21%
  • ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +57%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +66%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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.

3
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

5
International Life Sciences Institute

Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…

Science & Tech
6
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
9
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

10
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…

11
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
14/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — $9,100 · OtherCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient — $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACLU — $2,000 · OtherACLUIndividual grant recipient — $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $7,300 · OtherThe United States Holocaust Memorial …VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES — $4,100 · OtherVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICESHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION — $1,600 · Other+1 more — $1,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,400 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONT…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $4,500 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND …CLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $7,850 · EducationCLEVELAND PUB…CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $2,750 · EducationCLEVELAND INS…CLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND — $7,800 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND S…HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC — $1,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF …IDEASTREAM — $9,250 · Youth DevelopmentIDEASTREAMGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $8,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER CL…SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $3,400 · HealthSHRINERS …THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,850 · HealthTHE MICHA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,750 · HealthPLANNED P…ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · HealthALS THERA…
Other$30,600International$15,900Education$10,600Human Services$9,300Youth Development$9,250Food & Nutrition$8,500Health$8,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetIDEASTREAM — $9,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC — $8,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $7,850 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND — $7,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum — $7,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES — $4,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $3,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC — $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $1,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHATTIE LARLHAM FOUNDATION — $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Sk Wellman FoundationOH13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sk Wellman Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 The Charles & Rita Lawrence Family Fund 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc8% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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