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LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC

LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,330,652 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION DBA NEIGHBORWORKS AMERICA ($3,397,151). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$8.5M
Revenue FY2024
80
Funders on record
$21M
Grants received
$21M
Net assets
46/80 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 74%

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.8M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($17M)2018 Revenue 102 ($4.8M) Expenses 101 ($4.5M) Net assets 103 ($17M)2019 Revenue 123 ($5.8M) Expenses 156 ($6.9M) Net assets 96 ($16M)2020 Revenue 91 ($4.3M) Expenses 170 ($7.6M) Net assets 67 ($11M)2021 Revenue 117 ($5.5M) Expenses 115 ($5.1M) Net assets 95 ($16M)2022 Revenue 116 ($5.5M) Expenses 109 ($4.8M) Net assets 111 ($19M)2023 Revenue 153 ($7.3M) Expenses 159 ($7.1M) Net assets 149 ($25M)2024 Revenue 179 ($8.5M) Expenses 135 ($6.0M) Net assets 123 ($21M)
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Revenue (179)Expenses (135)Net assets (123)

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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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 35% · 2018 37% · 2019 33% · 2020 49% · 2021 10% · 2022 3% · 2023 16% · 2024 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$304k
17
$341k
18
$1.1M
19
$3.3M
20
$426k
21
$660k
22
$190k
23
$2.5M
24
6.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $4.6M.

12 of 80 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)26% 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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 80 funders by total. 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

LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

71% 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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC.

16%
largest funder
36%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 31% · 2019 25% · 2020 27% · 2021 16% · 2022 20% · 2023 12%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

45% of LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

62% of LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

ME
NH
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
NC
DC
TX

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. $5.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 80 funders put you typical 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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.5M on record — $3.9M federal, $4.6M state.

Federal$3.9M
grants $3.9Mcontracts $0
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25
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$800k
State$4.6M
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$4.6M

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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS 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

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 15%Fundraising 4%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

92%

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

Part of a family of 22 related entities

  • Community Works Hold and Control LLC · disregarded
  • East Island Communityworks LLC · disregarded
  • Farnham Street LLC · disregarded
  • Lcw Newbury Street LLC · disregarded
  • Neighborhood Fund · disregarded

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS 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 LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC?
LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 80 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,330,652 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION DBA NEIGHBORWORKS AMERICA ($3,397,151). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC have?
IRS filings report 80 organizations giving $21,330,652 in grants to LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC?
NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION DBA NEIGHBORWORKS AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $3,397,151 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS 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 80funders 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