· Private foundation
Lauri S Bauer 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $500
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAURI BAUER GRIEF CENTER | $30,000 |
| JUF | $30,000 |
| THE AUDITORIUM THEATRE | $10,000 |
| HALLIE225 FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- WHWILLOW HOUSE6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +22%
- JUJEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO4× · 2017–2020 · $140k · revenue +13%
- CPCHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE2× · 2021–2022 · $120k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- EFELUNA FORMERLY THE MOYER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +143%
- TETHE ELYSE MARCUS LEGACY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $11k · 32% of their budget
- HCHP COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k
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 tragedy assistance program for survivors (taps) is america's national nonprofit organization that has cared for the loved ones of our nation's fallen heroes since 1994. taps ensures these living legacies of service and sacrifice do not…
A year round grief support center for children, parents and adults coping with the loss of a family member due to death or life-altering illness, designed to help children and teens develop healthy coping skills and foster resiliency and…
The child loss foundation continues to expand its reach and strives to be a nationally recognized leader in providing comprehensive support to parents grieving the death of a child through retreats, financial assistance and…
Kara provides grief support for children, teens, families and adults. Guided by its core values of empathy and compassion, and belief that loss and grief impact everyone, Kara supports people of all ages on their journey through grief so…
Brighter days grief center is a minnesota nonprofit organization serving adults, young adults, teenagers and children who are grieving the death or terminal diagnosis of a beloved family member. although we are a grief center providing…
A center for grieving children is a support center for children, teens and their families that are grieving the loss of someone they love because of death, divorce or separation. we also help children who are in foster care, children and…
Caringmatters provides social supports and community education so that no one dies or grieves alone. our trained and screened volunteers provide compassionate support, without charge, to any montgomery county adult or child facing serious…
Wildflower is dedicated to serving children and families who have experienced the death of a parent. we provide the gifts of camp, enriching experiences, and consistent, long-term support to help families strengthen their resilience and…
Olivia's house is an organization of care-giving professionals and volunteers committed to supporting grieving children. its purpose is to facilitate healing through grief and loss education.
Our program in southern Idaho focuses on providing a safe space for children and teenagers aged 6 to 17 who are grieving the loss of a loved one. Through peer support groups and adult volunteer advocates we help these young individuals…
East end hospice is dedicated to improving lives across eastern long island through expert care, comfort and compassion for terminally ill patients and their families.
To provide year-round grief support services to children ages three and a half to 18 and their families, as well as young adults ages 19 to 25 who have experienced the death of a mother, father, sister, brother, or other loved one.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Willow House and the most unlike its peers is The Elyse Marcus Legacy Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 WILLOW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYTIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAURI BAUER GRIEF CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SEASONS HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EXPERIENCE CAMPS ↗
- Who funds ELUNA FORMERLY THE MOYER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ELYSE MARCUS LEGACY FOUNDATION 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.
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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 Lauri S Bauer 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.
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.