· Private foundation
The Lawrence Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $97,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $190,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $93,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCLA Foundation | $10,000 |
| NRDC | $10,000 |
| Yampa Valley Sustainable Council | $5,000 |
| Green Corp | $5,000 |
| (AAAS) American Association for the Advancement of Science | $5,000 |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | $5,000 |
| ALMA Backyard Farms | $5,000 |
| E-LAW | $5,000 |
| Coral Reef Alliance | $5,000 |
| 350 Colorado | $5,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $5,000 |
| Santa Monica Mountains Fund | $5,000 |
| Earth Law Center | $5,000 |
| Clothes to Kids of Denver, Inc. | $5,000 |
| Hillisdes | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $88k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Lawrence Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 10 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC5× · 2018–2024 · $55k · revenue +43%- YVYAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL5× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +386%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE5× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +277%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PAPesticide Action Network North Americaone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clean the World Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Loyalty Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
106 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. 106 of the 148 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 WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YAMPA VALLEY SUSTAINABILITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds 350 COLORADO ↗
- Who funds FOOD FINDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL SNOW LEOPARD TRUST ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SEA LIONS INC DBA PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-LAKES CARES ↗
- Who funds CLAYTON DABNEY FOR KIDS WITH CANCER ↗
- Who funds SEACOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP THORPE INC ↗
- Who funds ALL FOR KIDS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
- Who funds GREEN CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SIGHTSAVERS INC ↗
- Who funds CLOTHES TO KIDS OF DENVER INC ↗
- Who funds EARTH ECONOMICS ↗
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: Patagoniaorg · The Marisla Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Baby2baby
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 Lawrence 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Womenspace — 62% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Clean the World Foundation 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.