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Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 44
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalAnimalsArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving1$5k100%
FY20239$53k33%
FY202212$73k8%
FY202124$281k13%
FY202040$415k35%
FY201944$310k48%
FY201836$245kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$344kHealth$297kEducation$254kPhilanthropy$196kYouth Development$127kAnimals$81kHuman Services$37kPublic Benefit$13kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($852k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc: $123,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetJacksonville Zoological Society Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Cancer Society Inc: $61,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of North Florida Foundation Inc: $50,750 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPlayers by the Sea Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetNorth Florida School of Special Education Inc: $25,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFirst Coast Cultural Center Inc: $21,200 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDbwpc Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBeaches Fine Arts Series Inc: $10,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Jacksonville Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetKipp Jacksonville Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVilla la Paz: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJacksonville Humane Society Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Center of Jacksonville Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMission House Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCathedral Arts Project Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Jacksonville Children's Chorus Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYoung Life: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jim and Tabitha Furyk Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDenver Inner City Parish Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEpiscopal Children's Services Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Science and History of Jacksonville Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRenewing Dignity: $1,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNetsanet Ministries Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWjct Inc: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Florida Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonique Burr Foundation for Children Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTasis Foundation Inc: $750 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Boggy Creek Gang Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoaches Honor Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBeaches Habitat for Humanity Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL49.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · The Gate Foundation Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · The Maryellen S Willis Charitable Trust · VyStar Credit Union · Dubow Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Jb Foundation Inc · The Haskell Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation

How much does Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation give?
Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Health (21%), Education (18%).
Who are Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: MaliVai Washington Kids Foundation Inc ($123k), Jacksonville Zoological Society Inc ($75k), American Cancer Society Inc ($61k).
Does Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc, Pga Tour Inc, Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc.
Where is Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation based?
Gasper & Irene Lazzara Charitable Foundation is based in FL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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