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The Ellen C Lawson 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.

$117k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2024
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Median grant, FY2024
$8,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$30,000
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$8.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Cathedral of the Incarnation$30,0001n/a
Centennial Park Conservancy$8,00010%
Wo Smith Nashville Community Music School$8,00011%
Stars Inc$8,00011%
Backfield in Motion$8,00010%
Homework Hotline Inc$8,00012%

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($47k), not named here.

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 Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee IncTN15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · James R Meadows Jr Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.

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About The Ellen C Lawson Foundation

How much does The Ellen C Lawson Foundation give?
The Ellen C Lawson Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $117,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The Ellen C Lawson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (27%), Religion (26%), Arts & Culture (20%).
Who are The Ellen C Lawson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2024 to FY2024: Cathedral of the Incarnation ($30k), Centennial Park Conservancy ($8k), Wo Smith Nashville Community Music School ($8k).
Does The Ellen C Lawson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Ellen C Lawson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, James R Meadows Jr Foundation, The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation.
Where is The Ellen C Lawson Foundation based?
The Ellen C Lawson Foundation is based in TN.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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