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The Charles & Rita Lawrence Family Fund at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$19kHealth$19kEducation$17kInternational$16kFood & Nutrition$9kEmployment$4kCivil Rights$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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

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 (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 its 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
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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • 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 +10%

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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cleveland Society for the Blind; 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 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. 16 of the 20 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $9,100 · OtherCUYAHOGA COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARYIndividual grant recipient: $3,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientACLU: $2,000 · OtherACLUThe 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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.

The Sk Wellman Founda…Giant Eagle FoundationThe Swagelok Foundati…The Cleveland Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 The Charles & Rita Lawrence Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles & Rita Lawrence Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% 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, 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 20 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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