87,047,000 USD
The Foundation has two grant cycles: June and December. A completed application must be submitted online, using the Common Grant Application, by midnight (23:59:59) Central Time (CT) on either April 30 or October 31.
The Lawrence Foundation is a private family foundation focused on making grants to support environmental, human services and other causes.
The mission of The Lawrence Foundation is support organizations that are working to solve pressing environmental, human services and other issues.
Jeff Lawrence co-founded Trillium Digital Systems in 1988. Trillium was headquartered in Los Angeles, California and developed and licensed communications software to communications equipment manufacturers throughout the world. Intel Corporation acquired Trillium in August 2000. Jeff Lawrence and Diane Troth (husband and wife), established The Lawrence Foundation in 2000 with some of the proceeds received from the acquisition by Intel.
The Lawrence Foundation assets are currently over $4 million. They currently receive over 1500 grant requests per year and can only fund about 5 - 10% (by number, not dollars) of the requests that they receive.
As of the end of their December 2023 cycle, they have received over 23,000 grant applications since the inception of their foundation and approved over 825 of those applications for over $6 million. They have made both program and operating grants and in one case also directly sponsored, organized and hosted two workshops that brought together academics, non-profits and funders to explore the issue of environmental economics.
The Lawrence Foundation
- Grants typically range between $5,000 - $10,000. In some limited cases the Foundation 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 their areas of interests are accepted.
- In general, regardless of whether a grant request is for general operating or program/project expenses, all of their grants will be issued as unrestricted grants.
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.
A portion of any grant that they award is used for reasonable indirect costs. 50% or lower would be reasonable for indirect costs.
The foundation is based in Santa Monica, CA but has no geographical restrictions.
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