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ACT LAWRENCE INC

ACT LAWRENCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,652,575 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($474,355). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$688k
Revenue FY2024
19
Funders on record
$1.7M
Grants received
$452k
Net assets
9/19 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%

Against its field

ACT LAWRENCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,946 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · above the median
Months of reserve8.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)23% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,946 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($160k) Expenses 100 ($231k) Net assets -3 ($-1061)2018 Revenue 196 ($315k) Expenses 122 ($282k) Net assets 100 ($31k)2019 Revenue 201 ($322k) Expenses 119 ($274k) Net assets 254 ($79k)2020 Revenue 176 ($282k) Expenses 124 ($286k) Net assets 243 ($76k)2021 Revenue 413 ($662k) Expenses 148 ($342k) Net assets 1268 ($396k)2022 Revenue 295 ($473k) Expenses 197 ($457k) Net assets 1319 ($412k)2023 Revenue 293 ($469k) Expenses 216 ($500k) Net assets 1221 ($381k)2024 Revenue 429 ($688k) Expenses 267 ($617k) Net assets 1447 ($452k)
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Revenue (429)Expenses (267)Net assets (1447)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 43% · 2018 48% · 2019 53% · 2020 46% · 2021 63% · 2022 44% · 2023 57% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of ACT LAWRENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,403 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$71k
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$32k
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$48k
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$4k
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$320k
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$16k
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$30k
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$71k
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8.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $47k → $163k.

4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)32% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of ACT LAWRENCE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ACT LAWRENCE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ACT LAWRENCE INC.

29%
largest funder
60%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 82% · 2019 64% · 2020 63% · 2021 62% · 2022 38% · 2023 40%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

25% of ACT LAWRENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

81% of ACT LAWRENCE INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
MA
OH

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $534k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ACT LAWRENCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record.

State$1.7M
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$1.7M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ACT LAWRENCE INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

60% of spending goes to programs.

Program 60%Management 35%Fundraising 4%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ACT LAWRENCE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ACT LAWRENCE INC?
ACT LAWRENCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,652,575 to it, the largest being United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ($474,355). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ACT LAWRENCE INC have?
IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $1,652,575 in grants to ACT LAWRENCE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ACT LAWRENCE INC?
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc is the largest funder on record, with $474,355 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ACT LAWRENCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing