Kansas · Nonprofit
Lawrence Foundation
Lawrence Foundation (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $84k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $98k
- Net assets
- $20k
What Lawrence Foundation does
Mission
To support programs & projects to improve the economic and scientific understanding in the area served by the lawrence chamber of commerce.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Support of Economic Development Corporation of Lawrence and Douglas County for theRising Together capital campaign. The Rising Together campaign is a 5-year plan to promote and encourage economic growth in key areas of the Lawrence and Douglas County community. These key areas are job creation, entrepreneurship, workforce and housing and land development with a focus on needs for talent and continuing to have inclusive economic development.
$30,200 spentof which $30,200 as grants34% of program spendingSupport of Lawrence Chamber of Commerce for its Leadership Lawrence program. Leadership Lawrence is a professional development program that provides participants first-hand exposure to the inner workings of Lawrence and Douglas County. Leadership Lawrence's mission is to make connections through personal and professional growth to engage, inspire and strengthen our community.
$7,500 spentof which $7,500 as grants9% of program spendingSupport of Chamber programming; Diversify Douglas County
$50,250 spentof which $50,250 as grants57% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $87,950.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $56k to $29k (−48%).
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.
100% of Lawrence Foundation’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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Bonnie Lowe
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $8k.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Foundation’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
Lawrence Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Lawrence Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $98k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Against its field
Lawrence Foundation's revenue fell 16% between 2022 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Lawrence Foundation
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Lawrence Foundation: 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 Lawrence Foundation?
- Lawrence Foundation (Kansas) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $98,000 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($52,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Lawrence Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $98,000 in grants to Lawrence Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lawrence Foundation?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $52,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lawrence Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 2 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