The Lawrence Foundation’s Grant Program (US)

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.
• Their foundation is based in Santa Monica, CA but has no geographical restrictions.

For more information, visit https://thelawrencefoundation.org/application-process