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Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation at a glance

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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.

$232k
Granted FY2020
36
Grants FY2020
10
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation’s FY2023 grant dollars went to San Antonio Area 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

25
’18
26
’19
25
’20
22
’21
27
’22
0
’23

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Philanthropy$5.7MArts & Culture$239kEducation$227kEnvironment$132kInternational$131kHuman Services$114kYouth Development$46kHealth$28kOther$0
02FY2020 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k23 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $176k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION$20,000
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE$20,000
DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$17,000
BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$15,000
TEXAS PUBLIC RADIO$15,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION$15,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$12,000
DARTMOUTH ALUMNI FUND$12,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$10,000
PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION$10,000
KEYSTONE SCHOOL$10,000
KQED$10,000
FIND FOOD BANK$10,000
MIZZELL SENIOR CENTER$7,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%EVERY CHILD'S HOPE: $500 → 11%BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $15k → 16%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $2k → 17%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $2k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
IL
NY
OH
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
NM
KS
DC
OK
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$793k · 30 repeat orgs$157k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
16

Total granted

$793k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+70%

Still filing today

77%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $100k · revenue +37%
  • BJ
    BARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO
    5× · 2018–2022 · $75k · revenue +16%
  • KI
    KQED INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LAKE MOREY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • AL
    ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +47%
  • M
    MUSICMENLO
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
3
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
9
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

—
10
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
11
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Peaceworks Network Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
47/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $1,952,746 · PhilanthropySAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATIONDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,918,746 · PhilanthropyDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,772,746 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $75,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $77,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $26,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 · EducationWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $10,500 · EducationTHE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER: $10,250 · EducationKEYSTONE SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,250 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationDARTMOUTH ALUMNI FUND: $42,000 · OtherPBS SOCAL: $17,000 · OtherKCRW: $16,000 · OtherTHE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS: $15,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $45,000 · OtherPOPULATION CONNECTION: $22,000 · OtherOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Other+36 more: $157,600 · OtherNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests: $20,000 · Environment+1 more: $2,500 · EnvironmentBARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $75,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10,500 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH: $5,000 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $40,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $27,000 · HealthACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE: $16,500 · Health+2 more: $900 · Health
Philanthropy$5,646,738Arts & Culture$198,000Education$170,000Other$375,600Environment$122,500Human Services$94,000Health$84,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN ANTONIO AREA FOUNDATION: $1,952,746 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetDESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,918,746 over 6y, 17% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $1,772,746 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $77,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC RADIO: $75,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBARSHOP JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF VENICE: $45,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEACEWORKS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOPULATION CONNECTION: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Forests: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE: $16,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OKI PARTNERS: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICARE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILDWOOD SCHOOL INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARMAND HAMMER UNITED WORLD COLLEGE OF THE AMER: $10,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetKEYSTONE SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $6,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VINTAGE CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIM HIGH: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR MARTIAL ARTS INSTRUCTION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetWILDAID INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTOSAL INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST AMENDMENT COALITION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIODESIGN CHALLENGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTOMORROW'S WOMEN: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Albuquerque Community…San Antonio Area Foun…Open Society InstituteGs Donor Advised Phil…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…Shell USA Company Fou…
Albuquerque Community FoundationNM13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gladys and Ralph Lazarus Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 75 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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