Massachusetts · Nonprofit
LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC
LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,249,733 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($3,725,901). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.5M
- Funders on record
- 83
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Lawrence Communityworks Inc does
Mission
Lawrence communityworks (lcw) is a community development corporation that weaves together community planning, organizing, and asset-building efforts with high-quality affordable housing and commercial development to create vibrant neighborhoods and empowered residents. By facilitating conversations and action on community priorities, lcw engages partners and a network of youth and adult residents in opportunities to move themselves and this city forward.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The property rental program consists of rental activities related to 8 residential properties in the lawrence area, the majority of which are subject to long-term affordable housing restrictions. The residential properties contain 230 units in total, are subjected to affordability restrictions, some of which are attached to the related land, and are rented to families of low to moderate incomes. The property rental program also consists of one commercial property in lawrence. All leases between the agency and its tenants are operating leases.
$3,288,657 spentof which $154,500 as grants$1,339,928 earned by the program67% of program spendingAsset building is a unique economic development strategy to promote the educational advancement and build the social capital of lawrence residents. The program provides home-ownership and educational programs including pre- and post-purchase homebuyer education, foreclosure intervention, matched savings for asset ownership, financial education and coaching, english as a second language classes and various hard and soft skill workforce preparation classes and activities. The financial stability center provides a bundling of financial education, asset-building, income support and job readiness programs to encourage families as they strive for economic mobility and security.
$462,379 spent$188,391 earned by the program9% of program spendingThe work force program consists of job readiness and job specific training, coaching, esol classes, employer relationship development, internships, and job placement services, to help residents gain the skills for new or better employment.
$338,996 spent$138,120 earned by the program7% of program spendingOther program
$818,526 spent$333,501 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,908,558.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $82M to $53M (−35%).
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.
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.
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.
Chief executive
Jessica Andors
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 83 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% 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 83 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 17% 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
70% 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.
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
43% of LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
60% of LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS 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. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.
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.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$800k
- (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
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.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC?
- LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 83 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,249,733 to it, the largest being NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION ($3,725,901). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC have?
- IRS filings report 83 organizations giving $22,249,733 in grants to LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC?
- NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,725,901 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 83 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing