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WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY
WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,508 to it, the largest being MD Anderson Foundation ($185,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $735k
- Net assets
- $12M
What William a Lawson Institute for Peace and Prosperity does
Mission
The william a. Lawson institute for peace and prosperity targets three segments of the community with services that bridge the gap between the powerful and the powerless - children, criminal justice, and seniors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The lawson academy operates two single gender middle school campuses (one for girls and one for boys) located at 5052 scott street, houston, texas 77004. The academy serves primarily low-income students and provides three free meals daily to all students. Instruction is delivered through core content (math, english/language arts, science, social studies) delivered in two or three classes daily. Math, math solutions and math enrichment are three stand-alone classes to bring students up two or more grade levels per year. English/language arts is complemented with read 180 to increase reading lexile levels by two or more grades per year. Everything at the academy is tailored to meet the student on his/her current level and measure growth to enable students to succeed.
$2,993,071 spent77% of program spendingWalipp senior residence opened in 2005 to address the housing plight of seniors who desire a safe and comfortable community experience. We achieved full occupancy of our 50 units (42 2-bedroom/2bathroom and 8 1-bedroom/1-bathroom) in 2007 and maintained high occupancy rates for these safe and comfortable units. Partnerhsip with the houston police departments' blue star programs insures a drug-free/crime-free facility that rivals the city's finest living establishments. Today, agency management maintains an active wait list and 51% of the units are offered at below-the-market-rents for the benefit of low-income seniors. On-campus beauty and barber services along with effective programming enable our residents to enjoy fellowship and comraderie minutes away from the medical center, downtown and local events.we are not just managing an apartment building, we have created a viable and nurturing community: one with movie & game nights, health and wellness education, legal document and tax preparation, weekly bible studies, and community parties that engage the residents in fun and rewarding experiences.
$908,439 spent$582,368 earned by the program23% of program spendingWalipp public defender - walipp led the advocacy efforts before the harris county commissioners court to confirm alex bunin as chief public defender, the first in our county's history. The office of the public defender steps in when an accused person cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Mr. Bunin's appointment, made possible as a result of the efforts of the walipp and religious leaders of all faiths, marked a major improvement in the system of criminal justice for houston's indigent population.the clergy coalition, which includes rev. Bill lawson, rabbi sam karff and archbishop joseph fiorenza, seeks alternatives to safely reduce the overincarceration of low-level, nonviolent offenders and to support indigent defense.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,901,510.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2024 to 2025, from $13M to $15M (+16%).
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: 2021 67% · 2022 71% · 2023 70% · 2024 72% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
41% of WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Cheryl Lawson
Executive director
Board chair
Mary Ramos
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $241k → $15k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY’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
WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
43% 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 WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 62% · 2019 81% · 2020 44% · 2021 24% · 2022 80% · 2023 66% — growing more concentrated.
“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
56% of WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
95% of WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $204k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,127 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,127 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Walipp Regency Lofts LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY?
- WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY (Texas) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,508 to it, the largest being MD Anderson Foundation ($185,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $734,508 in grants to WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY?
- MD Anderson Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WILLIAM A LAWSON INSTITUTE FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 16 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