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The Lawrence Institute

THE LAWRENCE INSTITUTE SUPPORTS NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS BY PROVIDING PRO-BONO TRAINING AND FINANCIAL SUPPORT THROUGH ANNUAL GRANTS.

$15k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

International$653kCrime & Legal$181kRecreation & Sports$170kEducation$58kCommunity Improvement$50kHealth$40kPhilanthropy$34kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kOther$0
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOLF FORE AFRICA$15,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BIOACCEL: $50k → 11%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $2k → 12%Time out Foundation: $20k → 9%UMCOR: $25k → 13%Solid Rock International: $5k → 16%SOUTHERN ILLINOIS EDWARDSVILLE: $29k → 12%Southern Illinois University Foundation: $29k → 23%Phoenix Children's Foundation: $40k → 11%SIUE FOUNDATION: $29k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 11%SIUE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $6k → 11%NEW PATHWAYS FOR YOUTH: $65k → 11%Phoenix Country Day School: $4k → 11%Silver Stirrup Foundation: $2k → 11%ASU FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%ASU Foundation DEANS COUNCIL: $10k → 11%ASU FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ST CRONAN'S MIDTOWN FOUNDATION: $20k → 11%McDowell Church: $12k → 11%UMOM New Day Centers: $10k → 11%GOLF FORE AFRICA: $190k → 11%GOLF FORE AFRICA: $137k → 11%GOLF FORE AFRICA: $123k → 11%GOLF FORE AFRICA: $69k → 11%GOLF FORE AFRICA: $16k → 11%GOLF FORE AFRICA: $15k → 11%GOLF FORE AFRICA: $15k → 11%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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$894k · 4 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$894k
$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-44%
+28%

Still filing today

75%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalEducationCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • GF
    GOLF FORE AFRICA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $565k · revenue -90%
  • AF
    ADVOCATES FOR AFRICA'S CHILDREN INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $250k · revenue -44% · 51% of their budget
  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2020 · $45k · revenue +196%

Funded once

  • NP
    New Pathways For Youth
    one grant, 2017 · $65k · revenue -31%
  • B
    BIOACCEL
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -97%
  • PC
    Phoenix Children's Hospital Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $40k · revenue +52%
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
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
International School of Arizona

Our mission is to provide a progressive international education and advanced multilingual academics in a safe, diverse, and nurturing environment. our innovative and individualized approach to learning prepares highly motivated students…

Education
3
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
4
Alight

Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…

International
5
Zoe Empowers

Zoe Empowers is a global network of local organizations throughout Africa and India providing a replicable and scalable framework whereby youth led or resourced families are provided the training, resources, and community support to become…

International
6
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
7
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
8
Project Orbis International Inc

Orbis builds strong and sustainable eye care systems globally that put treatment and prevention within reach

International
9
Phoenix Children's Hospital

To advance hope, healing and the best healthcare for children and their families.

Health
10
Partners in Food Solutions

Improve the food value chain in developing countries by mobilizing corporate volunteers to share knowledge and expertise with small and growing food processors.

International
11
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…

Health
12
International Crisis Group

Crisis group works to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world by informing and influencing the perceptions and actions of policymakers and other key conflict actors. to this end, we endeavour to talk to all sides and provide…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phoenix Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Time Out Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $565,049 · OtherGOLF FORE AFRICA INCSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE: $33,914 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $28,500 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS: $25,000 · OtherUMCOR: $25,000 · Other+6 more: $59,500 · Other+6 moreADVOCATES FOR AFRICA'S CHILDREN INC: $250,072 · InternationalADVOCATES FOR AFRICA'S …+2 more: $7,400 · InternationalARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 · EducationSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION: $29,000 · EducationPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4,000 · EducationNew Pathways For Youth: $65,000 · Crime & LegalBIOACCEL: $50,000 · Community ImprovementPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $39,500 · HealthTime Out Foundation: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$736,963International$257,472Education$78,000Crime & Legal$65,000Community Improvement$50,000Health$39,500Youth Development$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOLF FORE AFRICA INC: $565,049 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetADVOCATES FOR AFRICA'S CHILDREN INC: $250,072 over 2y, 51% of budgetBIOACCEL: $50,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPhoenix Children's Hospital Foundation: $39,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY EDWARDSVILLE FOUNDATION: $29,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTime Out Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetUMOM NEW DAY CENTERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 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.

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.

American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Endowment FoundationOH8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Lawrence Institute funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lawrence Institute. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lawrence Institute?

    Find your warmest path to The Lawrence Institute through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 21 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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