How much does The Lawlor Foundation give?

The Lawlor Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $112,515 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does The Lawlor Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (15%), Religion (12%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).

Who are The Lawlor Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($48k), Oxfam-America Inc ($44k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($38k).

Does The Lawlor Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Lawlor 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 Lawlor Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.

Where is The Lawlor Foundation based?

The Lawlor Foundation is based in IL.

Foundation Dossiers

Illinois · Private foundation

The Lawlor Foundation

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.

$113k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2025: 39
Organizations funded FY2024: 3%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $2,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 39 to 43; FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $755k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations The Lawlor Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	37	$113k	3%
FY2024	39	$117k	3%
FY2023	42	$123k	5%
FY2022	40	$121k	3%
FY2021	43	$116k	5%
FY2020	42	$116k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$91kReligion$74kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kHuman Services$62kEducation$60kArts & Culture$56kHealth$55kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$48,000	6	0%
Oxfam-America Inc	$44,000	6	0%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$38,000	6	0%
The Wetlands Initiative	$24,000	6	0%
Catholic Relief Services	$24,000	6	n/a
Foundation for Homan Square F/K/A Homan Arthington Foundation	$24,000	6	1%
Dominican University	$18,000	6	0%
Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc	$18,000	6	n/a
Urban Initiatives Inc	$18,000	6	0%
The Night Ministry	$12,000	6	0%

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All grantees of The Lawlor Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$48,000	6	0%
Oxfam-America Inc	$44,000	6	0%
Greater Chicago Food Depository	$38,000	6	0%
The Wetlands Initiative	$24,000	6	0%
Catholic Relief Services	$24,000	6	n/a
Foundation for Homan Square F/K/A Homan Arthington Foundation	$24,000	6	1%
Dominican University	$18,000	6	0%
Catholic Near East Welfare Assoc Inc	$18,000	6	n/a
Urban Initiatives Inc	$18,000	6	0%
The Night Ministry	$12,000	6	0%
The Thresholds	$12,000	6	0%
Lincoln Park Community Services	$12,000	6	0%
Loyola Academy	$12,000	6	n/a
Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly Inc	$12,000	6	0%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc	$9,000	5	0%
Ena Foundation	$8,000	4	0%
The Great Books Foundation	$8,000	4	0%
Music Academy of the West	$6,000	6	0%
Hadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired	$6,000	6	0%
Blood Cancer United Inc	$6,000	5	0%
The Newberry Library	$6,000	6	0%
University of Chicago	$6,000	6	0%
Loyola University of Chicago	$6,000	6	0%
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind Inc	$6,000	3	0%
Georgetown University	$5,000	5	0%
Chicago Association for Research and Education in Science	$5,000	2	0%
Lake Forest College	$1,500	3	0%
Paws Chicago	$1,500	1	0%
Friends of Lane	$1,000	1	0%
Clearwater Camp Foundation Inc	$1,000	2	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($306k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lawlor Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · 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.

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About The Lawlor Foundation

How much does The Lawlor Foundation give?: The Lawlor Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $112,515 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does The Lawlor Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (15%), Religion (12%), Public Safety & Disaster (12%).
Who are The Lawlor Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($48k), Oxfam-America Inc ($44k), Greater Chicago Food Depository ($38k).
Does The Lawlor Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Lawlor 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 Lawlor Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is The Lawlor Foundation based?: The Lawlor Foundation is based in IL.