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.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $455k
What Andrew James Lawson Foundation Inc does
Mission
To advance and improve the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/dd) by funding, developing and promoting programs, projects, or individual scholarships that encorage and support
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
2025 andrew james lawson foundation invitational. This is the seventh annual all-day high school basketball tournament heldat the td garden to promote inclusion and unified sports. 2 of the 18 teams were unified.
$950 spentof which $950 as grants11% of program spendingCollege grants of $1,000 each to five deserving high schoolseniors who have demonstrated an interest or career in fosteringinclusion of people with (I/dd) and hosting a usta unified tennis qualifier.
$5,000 spentof which $5,000 as grants58% of program spendingFunding unified inclusion programs and sport programs
$2,150 spentof which $2,150 as grants25% of program spendingGrants and programs
$500 spentof which $500 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $8,600.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $323k to $455k (+41%).
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
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.
Against its field
ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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.
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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 5 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing