Minnesota · Private foundation
The Lawrence Family 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.
- $570k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations The Lawrence Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 21 | $563k | 52% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $538k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $673k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $439k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $454k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $394k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $832k | 70% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $427k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $700,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $576,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Kent School | $478,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Minnesota Orchestral Association | $422,555 | 8 | 0% |
| Yale University | $226,450 | 4 | n/a |
| Plymouth Congregational Church | $195,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Global Minnesota | $175,077 | 8 | 4% |
| Minneapolis Regional Chamber Development Foundation | $132,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Onevillage Partners | $116,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Proof Alliance | $109,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($576k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lawrence Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Minneapolis Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Longview Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · American Gift Fund · Will Bracken Family Foundation · The Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Margaret a Cargill Foundation · The McKnight Foundation · Communitygiving
How this is measured
About The Lawrence Family Foundation
- How much does The Lawrence Family Foundation give?
- The Lawrence Family Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $570,375 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Lawrence Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (50%), Arts & Culture (14%), Health (13%).
- Who are The Lawrence Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: University of Minnesota Foundation ($700k), Yale University ($577k), Kent School ($478k).
- Does The Lawrence Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lawrence Family 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 Lawrence Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Minneapolis Foundation, Xcel Energy Foundation, Mightycause Charitable Foundation.
- Where is The Lawrence Family Foundation based?
- The Lawrence Family Foundation is based in MN.
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