Oregon · Private foundation
Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 19
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $215k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 7 | $26k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $26k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $31k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $45k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $58k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $29k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $26k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $25k | 16% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use Your Gift Foundation | $31,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Community Works Inc | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Maslow Project | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Smart Reading | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kids Unlimited of Oregon | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medford Gospel Mission | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Living Opportunities Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Equestrian Center | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Animals | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Use Your Gift Foundation | $31,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Community Works Inc | $17,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Maslow Project | $14,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Smart Reading | $8,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Dogs for the Deaf Inc Dba Dogs for Better Lives | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Kids Unlimited of Oregon | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medford Gospel Mission | $6,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Living Opportunities Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Hope Equestrian Center | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of the Animals | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The CREST | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Center for Nonprofit Legal Services Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Literacy Outreach | $500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($182k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · West Family Foundation · Carrico Family Foundation · Robert and Frances Chaney Family Foundation · The Carpenter Foundation · United Way of Jackson County Inc · Joe & Frances Naumes Family Foundation · Blum Family Foundation · Quinn Hill Foundation · Raymond Family Foundation · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Collins Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation with peer funders
About Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation
- How much does Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation give?
- Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $25,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (43%), Youth Development (14%), Housing & Shelter (9%).
- Who are Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Use Your Gift Foundation ($31k), Community Works Inc ($18k), Maslow Project ($14k).
- Does Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Oregon Community Foundation, West Family Foundation, Carrico Family Foundation.
- Where is Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation based?
- Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation is based in OR.
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