Massachusetts · Nonprofit
ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC
ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,506 to it, the largest being THE SCARBRO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,089 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,089 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
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.
- GivenGain Foundation USAshared funders
- Usta New England Incportfolio match
- Usta Foundation Incorporatedportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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.
77% of ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $27k → $15k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION 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
ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
59% 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 ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 73% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
85% of ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- GivenGain Foundation USAshared fundersFL · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- Usta New England Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Usta Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Tennis Association Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Derenzo Charitable Foundationincportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Usta Midwest Tennis & Education Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Boston Athletic Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Tennis Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Seaver Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Everett Co-Operative Bank Charitable Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jilmar Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Organizations like ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION 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
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
89%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC?
- ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,506 to it, the largest being THE SCARBRO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($25,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $84,506 in grants to ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC?
- THE SCARBRO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 5funders 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