· Private foundation
Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CASA | $2,000 |
| MASLOW PROJECT | $2,000 |
| DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES | $2,000 |
| SOU FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SAINT MARY'S | $2,000 |
| KIDS UNLIMITED | $2,000 |
| USE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| THE CREST | $2,000 |
| HOLLY THEATER | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY WORKS | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of your 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 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
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
- MPMASLOW PROJECT7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +108%
- CWCOMMUNITY WORKS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +96%
SMART READING5× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- TCTHE CREST AT WILLOW WITTone grant, 2022 · $1k
- SASalvation Armyone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Conduct rescue of dogs, facilitate adoptions of same. provide emergency vet services for dogs needing rescue
Friends of the children - central oregon is a oregon based nonprofit with the mission of impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years,…
Advocate for victims of crime within the criminal justice system and protective order cases; provide referrals to social-service agencies that can help crime victims recover. the center's services are available statewide at no cost to…
To provide care and support to developmentally disabled individuals who are unable to care for themselves and/or access community services on their own.
To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.
Our mission is to help herding dogs who are abandoned, neglected and abused or simply in the wrong home into a loving appropriate home.
Promote and project socially responsible agriculture in oregon, while working to support independent, family scale farmers and rachers who are ecologically farming in ways that are respectful of land, animals and community.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
Our mission is to find employment for justice-involved individuals through prison outreach, employer education & business development services. We partner with the Oregon department of corrections and justice-oriented organizations. We…
A family for every child (affec) is dedicated to finding permanent and loving adoptive families for waiting foster children. to accomplish our mission, we focus on finding loving and permanent families for children who the foster care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Crest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 31 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 MASLOW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SMART READING ↗
- Who funds KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
- Who funds LIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds The CREST ↗
- Who funds HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
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: 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
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 Jerry and Donnis Lausmann 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Living Opportunities Inc — 90% of income from government
- Community Works Inc — 59% of income from government
- Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
- Hope Equestrian Center — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Center for Nonprofit Legal Services Inc — 2% 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.