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Jm Lazarus 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 |
|---|---|
| IMPACT ISRAEL | $9,000 |
| ESPANOLA HUMANE | $5,775 |
| CENTER THEATER GROUP | $5,400 |
| KEHILLAT ISRAEL | $5,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $4,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH SHALOM | $4,000 |
| TEMPLE BETH HILLEL | $3,600 |
| CHABAD OF PACIFIC PALISADES | $2,800 |
| BEIT T'SHUVAH | $2,600 |
| WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $2,500 |
| SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER | $2,245 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $2,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 11 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- IIIMPACTISRAEL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +35%
- BTBeit T'Shuvah5× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +49%
- SFSANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +36%
Funded once
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +25%- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +47%
- NMNEW MEXICO CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
To change the future for nature and humanity by conserving birds of prey worldwide.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Spikes K9 Fund. 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 35 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 101 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 IMPACTISRAEL INC ↗
- Who funds Beit T'Shuvah ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE ANIMAL SHELTER AND HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ESPANOLA VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE HEART AND SOUL ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Coronado Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds COOKING WITH KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Spikes K9 Fund ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KINDRED SPIRITS ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds TOMORROW'S WOMEN ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Allene & Jerome Lapides Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Capitol Ford Charitable Foundation · The Melville Hankins Family Foundation Inc · Feinberg Foundation · Enterprise Bank & Trust Foundation · The Gumbo Foundation · Livingry Foundation · Carroll Petrie Foundation · Albuquerque Community 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 Jm 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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