· Private foundation
Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to Desert Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 25 organizations, $232k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k23 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $176k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE | $20,000 |
| SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO | $15,000 |
| BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $12,000 |
| DARTMOUTH ALUMNI FUND | $12,000 |
| FIND FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KEYSTONE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KQED | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| MIZZELL SENIOR CENTER | $7,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS SF | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $89k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2020, 7 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +37%- BJBARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO5× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +16%
- KIKQED INC5× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +47%
- TLTHE LAKE MOREY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $10k
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +11%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Peaceworks Network Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Aim High. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 75 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds American Forests ↗
- Who funds ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AFRICARE ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDWOOD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GRACE ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Albuquerque Community Foundation · San Antonio Area Foundation · Open Society Institute · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Farm and Wilderness Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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