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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 FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.2MArts & Culture$609kHealth$590kInternational$295kReligion$285kCommunity Improvement$207kHuman Services$73kEnvironment$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $442k
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF MN FOUNDATION$150,000
FOUNDATION OF AAO$100,000
MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA$78,625
KENT SCHOOL$58,000
VOCAL ESSENCE$55,000
GLOBAL MINNESOTA$40,000
YALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$10,500
YALE COLLEGE$10,250
PROOF ALLIANCE$10,000
VIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES$10,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$7,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JDRF- MN & DAKOTAS CHAPTERS$5,000
FOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROOF ALLIANCE: $40k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $15k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%PROOF ALLIANCE: $4k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.8M · 27 repeat orgs$485k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
49

Total granted

$3.8M
$424k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+23%

Still filing today

52%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsOther
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $700k · revenue +105%
  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $478k · revenue +21%
  • GM
    GLOBAL MINNESOTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • EC
    EDINA COMMUNITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue -15%
  • MR
    MINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $43k
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
Minnesota Medical Association

To be the leading voice of medicine to make minnesota the healthiest state and the best place to practice.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of Minnesota Foundation Investment Advisors

To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…

Education
4
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
5
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
6
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
7
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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8
Minnesota Hospital Association

Advance the health of individuals and communities through leadership, advocacy and collaboration on behalf of minnesota hospitals and health systems. vision: minnesotans are healthy and have access to the right care at the right time in…

Community Improvement
9
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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10
Minnesota Council on Foundations

MCF is a vibrant philanthropic community connecting, strengthening and mobilizing the power of philanthropy to advance prosperity and equity.

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11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Change It Forward Foundation-Tanzania. 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

45 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. 45 of the 89 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
27/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $576,700 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYFOUNDATION OF AAO: $231,000 · OtherFOUNDATION OF AAOYALE UNIVERSITY: $226,450 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYPLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $195,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Other+51 more: $576,218 · Other+51 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $700,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDAT…KENT SCHOOL: $478,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOLTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $45,000 · Education+6 more: $27,000 · EducationMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $422,555 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA ORCHE…VOCALESSENCE: $95,000 · Arts & CultureVOCALESSENCEGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $34,500 · Arts & CultureGUTHRIE THEATER…+4 more: $37,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreGLOBAL MINNESOTA: $175,077 · InternationalONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $116,000 · International+2 more: $8,500 · InternationalMINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $132,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITY: $108,000 · Community ImprovementThe Conference Board Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPROOF ALLIANCE: $109,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 · HealthMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $5,000 · HealthWashburn Center for Children: $5,000 · HealthDIABETES ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Health+3 more: $3,000 · Health
Other$1,895,368Education$1,250,000Arts & Culture$589,055International$299,577Community Improvement$250,000Human Services$109,000Health$48,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $700,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $478,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION: $422,555 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL MINNESOTA: $175,077 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $132,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetONEVILLAGE PARTNERS: $116,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetPROOF ALLIANCE: $109,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $108,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVOCALESSENCE: $95,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $25,345 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetBROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWalker Methodist Foundation: $20,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetHENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $12,538 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKER ART CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Conference Board Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINNEAPOLIS HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIBRANT & SAFE DOWNTOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $9,930 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetORDWAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINDIFLY INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMINNEHAHA ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN STAR COUNCIL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES ACTION RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPACER CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChange It Forward Foundation-Tanzania: $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBALLET WORKS INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACEHEALTH SOUTHWEST MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $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.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ORCHESTRAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds MINNEAPOLIS REGIONAL CHAMBER DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds PROOF ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VOCALESSENCE ↗
  • Who funds ABBOTT NORTHWESTERN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GUTHRIE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COURAGE KENNY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds BROWN HILLEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Walker Methodist Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HENNEPIN THEATRE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Conference Board Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES ↗

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 Minneapolis Found…Xcel Energy FoundationMightycause Charitabl…Longview FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…American Gift FundWill Bracken Family F…The Hubbard Broadcast…Pohlad Family Foundat…Margaret a Cargill Fo…The McKnight Foundati…Communitygiving
The Minneapolis FoundationMN20.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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 89 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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