Deadline: 30-Apr-22
The Lawrence Foundation’s Grant Program is now open to US based qualified charitable organizations.
This Foundation is a private family foundation focused on making grants to support environmental, human services and other causes.
Funding Information
- Grants typically range between $5,000 – $10,000. In some limited cases they may make larger grants, but that is typically after they have gotten to know your organization over a period of time. They also generally don’t make multi-year grants, although they may fund the same organization on a year by year basis over a period of years.
- General operating or program/project grant requests within the areas of interests are accepted.
- In general, regardless of whether a grant request is for general operating or program/project expenses, all of the grants will be issued as unrestricted grants.
What they dont Fund?
- The foundation does not make grants to individuals, international charitable organizations that are not qualified in the US or to for-profit businesses. The foundation does not typically make grants for the following purposes. Requests to fund the following purposes are likely to be denied:
- Computers or software,
- Audio or video equipment,
- Designing and producing videos, kiosks or promotional material,
- Music programs or musical instruments,
- Gardening programs or equipment,
- Physical education programs or equipment,
- Recreational programs,
- Theater arts or performance arts programs or equipment,
- Hospice or old age home programs,
- Churches,
- Religious, charter or magnet schools
- Individuals for any purpose,
- International organizations that do not have a qualified domestic 501(c)(3) representative,
- Political lobbying activities or other political purposes,
- Voter registration,
- Private foundations,
- Dinners, balls, or other ticketed events,
- Purposes outside of the foundation’s funding priorities as listed in the prior section.
- Other than legal requirements, these lists are not absolute and may not always apply, but they provide some guidance about the interests.
Eligibility Criteria
- The foundation makes grants to US based qualified charitable organizations. To date they have funded organizations that address the following areas of interest:
- Environment (US headquartered organizations operating programs in the US or elsewhere in the world),
- Human Services
- Disaster relief (US headquartered organizations responding to disasters in the US or elsewhere in the world on an occasional basis),
- Other (US headquartered organizations operating programs in the US or elsewhere in the world).
- Nonprofit organizations that qualify for public charity status under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or public schools and libraries are eligible for contributions or grants.
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Their foundation is based in Santa Monica, CA but has no geographical restrictions.
For more information, visit https://thelawrencefoundation.org/application-process
