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Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation at a glance

· 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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$112kYouth Development$36kHousing & Shelter$23kCrime & Legal$20kHuman Services$14kEducation$12kAnimals$10kEmployment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$215k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
JPR$5,000
SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY$5,000
COMMUNITY WORKS$5,000
SOUTH MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR$2,500
USE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION$2,500
LITERACY OUTREACH$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%USE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%ROGUE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $2k → 18%Use Your Gift Foundation: $3k → 13%Use Your Gift Foundation: $3k → 13%JPR: $5k → 13%Use Your Gift Foundation: $3k → 13%SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY: $5k → 13%Use Your Gift Foundation: $3k → 13%SOU FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%USE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%SOU SCHOLARSHIP: $2k → 13%USE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION: $3k → 13%THE CREST: $2k → 13%USE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%USE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION: $2k → 13%Craterworks: $2k → 13%DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $2k → 13%Craterworks: $2k → 13%SAINT MARY'S: $25k → 13%SAINT MARY'S: $25k → 13%COMMUNITY WORKS: $5k → 13%Saint Mary's: $5k → 13%SMART: $3k → 13%Saint Mary's: $2k → 13%Saint Mary's: $2k → 13%SAINT MARY'S: $25k → 13%ALBA SISTER CITY: $6k → 13%SOUTHERN OREGON PBS: $5k → 13%ALBA SISTER CITY: $4k → 13%Medford OR Alba City Sister: $3k → 13%Medford OR Alba City Sister: $3k → 13%MASLOW PROJECT: $3k → 13%Medford OR Alba City Sister: $3k → 13%MEDFORD OR ALBA CITY SISTER: $3k → 13%Medford OR Alba City Sister: $3k → 13%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 13%SOUTH MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR: $3k → 13%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $3k → 13%SAINT MARY'S: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY WORKS: $2k → 13%Community Works: $2k → 13%CASA: $2k → 13%HOLLY THEATER: $2k → 13%Maslow Project: $2k → 13%MASLOW PROJECT: $2k → 13%KIDS UNLIMITED: $2k → 13%Maslow Project: $2k → 13%Community Works: $2k → 13%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$256k · 23 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +106% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$256k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+14%

Still filing today

35%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentEducationAnimalsHealthEmploymentEnvironmentOther
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

  • CW
    COMMUNITY WORKS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +96%
  • MP
    MASLOW PROJECT
    7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +108%
  • SMART READING
    5× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOLLY THEATER
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • The CREST
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
  • SF
    SOU FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
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
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
2
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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3
Legal Aid Services of Oregon

The primary purpose of legal aid services of oregon shall be to achieve justice for the low-income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.

Crime & Legal
4
Oregon Crime Victims Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
5
Oregon Dog Rescue

Conduct rescue of dogs, facilitate adoptions of same. provide emergency vet services for dogs needing rescue

Animals
6
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
7
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
8
Community Lendingworks

To develop economically vibrant, inclusive communities by providing accessible loans that help community members, small businesses, and affordable housing developers reach their goals regardless of income level, racial identity or location.

Community Improvement
9
Central Oregon Collective

To provide care and support to developmentally disabled individuals who are unable to care for themselves and/or access community services on their own.

Human Services
10
Friends of the Children- Central Oregon

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,…

Youth Development
11
Abilities At Work

To provide employment and alternative service programs for developmentally disabled adults in the portland metro area.

Employment
12
The Arc Oregon

The arc of oregon, together with its network of members and affiliated chapters, advocates for the rights and full community participation of all children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Living Opportunities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 36 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAINT MARY'S: $86,000 · OtherSAINT MARY'SUSE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATION: $31,000 · OtherUSE YOUR GIFT FOUNDATIONMedford OR Alba City Sister: $15,000 · OtherMedford OR Alba City SisterIndividual grant recipient: $9,500 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $9,000 · Other+22 more: $71,500 · Other+22 moreMASLOW PROJECT: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY WORKS INC: $17,500 · HealthSMART READING: $8,500 · EducationLITERACY OUTREACH: $500 · EducationDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $7,000 · AnimalsFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $2,000 · AnimalsLIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 · EmploymentThe CREST: $2,000 · Environment
Other$222,000Youth Development$21,000Health$17,500Education$9,000Animals$9,000Employment$5,000Environment$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS INC: $17,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMASLOW PROJECT: $14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSMART READING: $8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER: $2,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS: $2,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe CREST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY OUTREACH: $500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds MASLOW PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SMART READING ↗
  • Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
  • Who funds KIDS UNLIMITED OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds LIVING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPE EQUESTRIAN CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds The CREST ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LITERACY OUTREACH ↗

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 Oregon Community …West Family FoundationCarrico Family Founda…Robert and Frances Ch…The Carpenter Foundat…United Way of Jackson…Joe & Frances Naumes …Blum Family FoundationQuinn Hill FoundationRaymond Family Founda…OCF Joseph E Weston P…The Collins Foundation
The Oregon Community FoundationOR24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jerry and Donnis Lausmann Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home