California · Private foundation
The Lawrence Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $190k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 68%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Itemized, FY2024
- $97k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 68% of the organizations The Lawrence Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k 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 | 16 | $87k | 56% |
| FY2021 | 31 | $138k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $165k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 40 | $210k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $249k | 72% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Yampa Valley Sustainability Council | $30,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Fcnl Education Fund | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Coral Reef Alliance | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| 350 Colorado | $18,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Food Finders Inc | $17,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sandy Hook Promise Foundation | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Organic Farming Research Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($272k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Lawrence Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: 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
How this is measured
About The Lawrence Foundation
- How much does The Lawrence Foundation give?
- The Lawrence Foundation reported 18 itemized grants totaling $97,000, out of $190,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does The Lawrence Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Education (5%), Food & Nutrition (4%).
- Who are The Lawrence Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: World Wildlife Fund Inc ($55k), Yampa Valley Sustainability Council ($30k), Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide ($28k).
- Does The Lawrence Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 68% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lawrence Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lawrence Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, The Marisla Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is The Lawrence Foundation based?
- The Lawrence Foundation is based in CA.
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