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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
168/233 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 12%
01What it does

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

  1. 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 program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $89,023,082.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($187M) Expenses 100 ($82M) Net assets 100 ($660M)2018 Revenue 56 ($105M) Expenses 104 ($85M) Net assets 110 ($723M)2019 Revenue 55 ($103M) Expenses 112 ($92M) Net assets 114 ($751M)2020 Revenue 76 ($142M) Expenses 111 ($91M) Net assets 122 ($808M)2021 Revenue 64 ($119M) Expenses 121 ($99M) Net assets 153 ($1.0B)2022 Revenue 51 ($95M) Expenses 118 ($97M) Net assets 142 ($938M)2023 Revenue 54 ($100M) Expenses 133 ($109M) Net assets 145 ($954M)2024 Revenue 55 ($102M) Expenses 138 ($113M) Net assets 156 ($1.0B)2025 Revenue 64 ($120M) Expenses 142 ($117M) Net assets 169 ($1.1B)
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Revenue (64)Expenses (142)Net assets (169)Peer revenue range

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%).

$742M
$805M
$846M
$908M
$1.1B
$1.1B
$1.1B
$1.1B
$1.2B
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

27% of TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (14% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 732 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$105M
’17
$20M
’18
$11M
’19
$51M
’20
$20M
’21
−$1.5M
’22
−$9.1M
’23
−$11M
’24
$3.4M
’25
4.2
months of
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.

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Listed363437404141433538
Joined·+7+7+5+7+5+13+3+11
No longer listed·9426511118
03Who funds it

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.

14%
largest funder
32%
top three
~17
effective funders

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.

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

TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 32 states in all.

NH
ID
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
NC
SC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
New Jersey out of state home

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin3% · below the median
Months of reserve4.2mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · bottom quartile

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 18%Fundraising 5%

Governance

28
board members
96%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

AK
NH
WA
MI
MA
OR
OH
CO
KY
MD
SC
OK

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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