· Private foundation
The Daniel H Lawlor Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of THE DANIEL H LAWLOR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEADS-CANINES FOR COMBAT | $10,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $7,000 |
| NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| MISSION22 | $5,000 |
| MA CHAPTER OF DISABLED AMER VETS | $5,000 |
| AUTISM HIGHER ED FDTN | $5,000 |
| VALUING OUR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| APPALACHIAN SERVICE PROJECT | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES | $5,000 |
| HOME BASETHE RED SOX FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART | $3,000 |
| AED FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FDN | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +8% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- WFWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $17k · revenue +300%
FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +53%- VOVALUING OUR CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- OROPERATION RECOVERY INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -94%
- PTPAT TILLMAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +8%
- TCTHE CORY GRIFFIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $4k
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.
Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…
Special ops survivors advances the mission "to embrace and empower surviving spouses of fallen special operations heroes to build healthy post-loss futures as they transition and rebuild their new lives." the foundation provides programs…
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
The peaceful warrior foundation is a non-profit organization with the aim of connecting our nation's warriors with the support and care they need.at peaceful warrior we strive to help our active-duty operators & veterans be at their very…
The Special Operations Fund (the "Fund") is a nonprofit organization that provides educational grants and support to the families of special mission unit warriors killed in action, killed in training, died in the line of duty, suicide, and…
The mission of the purple heart foundation is to enhance the quality of life of purple heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families.
Sof is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. we develop and provide customized treatment plans for veterans through our national network of partners.
Improve the quality of life for the eod family by providing educational, financial, and emotional support.
Provide financial support for veterans.
The tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Operations Warrior Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 THE NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VALUING OUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MILITARY ORDER OF THE PURPLE HEART OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds AED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAT TILLMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Daniel H Lawlor Charitable Foundation 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.
- Valuing Our Children Inc — 93% of income from government
- For Kids Only Afterschool Inc — 29% 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.