New Jersey · Nonprofit
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,979,391 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($7,949,160). 168 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $120M
- Funders on record
- 233
- Grants received
- $57M
- Net assets
- $1.1B
What Trustees of the Lawrenceville School does
Mission
Through house and harkness, the lawrenceville school challenges a diverse community of promising young people to lead lives of learning, integrity, and high purpose. Our mission is to inspire the best in each to seek the best for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Student services: in 1936, educational philanthropist edward s. Harkness helped lawrenceville reconfigure the school's classrooms around oval 'harkness' tables that replaced lecture and memorization with shared inquiry and discovery. By connecting the rigorous intellectual culture around the harkness table to outstanding experiential and extracurricular opportunities spanning academic, athletic, artistic, cultural, scientific, service, and social endeavors, lawrenceville deepens understanding, reinforces self-confidence, spawns creativity, and fosters initiative and leadership. We empower students to learn and think for themselves, and to subject preliminary understanding to critical review. Lawrenceville encourages students to put in the work, pursue their passions, and develop their talents, inspiring the best in each to seek the best for all.
$89,023,082 spentof which $16,393,539 as grants$64,894,982 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $89,023,082.
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. 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 2020 to 2021, from $908M to $1.1B (+23%).
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.
27% of TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 72 funders to 126 funders, grant income rose $1.7M → $6.7M.
39 of 233 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 233 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
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% 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
49% 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 TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 17% · 2019 25% · 2020 19% · 2021 17% · 2022 23% · 2023 9% — 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
59% of TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL
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 New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 12 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL?
- TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL (New Jersey) receives grants from 233 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,979,391 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($7,949,160). 168 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL have?
- IRS filings report 233 organizations giving $56,979,391 in grants to TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL, 168 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $7,949,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 233 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