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Lazarian Foundation Inc

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.

$192k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$105,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
5
Total assets, FY2024
$1.4M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Lazarian Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
ReligionHuman ServicesInternationalEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$192k18%
FY20239$157k22%
FY20229$52k0%
FY202119$95k42%
FY202010$55k40%
FY201910$57k30%
FY20188$37k38%
FY20177$47kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$322kInternational$230kReligion$78kYouth Development$27kCommunity Improvement$17kHealth$10kHuman Services$2kEducation$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
NY
CA
CO
AZ
MS
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Door of Hope$309,00081%
Young Life$27,00070%
International Accelerated Missions Inc$22,7508n/a
Leadership Foundations$17,00011%
Cornerstone Faith Assembly Ministry$15,00062%
Christian Leadership International Inc$15,00055%
Dynamic Church Planting International$14,00020%
Lazarian World Homes Inc$12,50061%
Southern California Hospice Foundat Attn Michelle Wulfestieg$7,000611%
Mosaic La$5,0001n/a
Show all 17 grantees
All grantees of Lazarian Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Door of Hope$309,00081%
Young Life$27,00070%
International Accelerated Missions Inc$22,7508n/a
Leadership Foundations$17,00011%
Cornerstone Faith Assembly Ministry$15,00062%
Christian Leadership International Inc$15,00055%
Dynamic Church Planting International$14,00020%
Lazarian World Homes Inc$12,50061%
Southern California Hospice Foundat Attn Michelle Wulfestieg$7,000611%
Mosaic La$5,0001n/a
Echo Church$2,6001n/a
The Navigators$2,0002n/a
Pasadena Christian School$2,00020%
Perkins Foundation$1,0001n/a
Focus on the Family$1,0001n/a
Jews for Jesus$1,0001n/a
The Prayer Column$1,000133%

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($237k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lazarian Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDoor of Hope: $309,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetYoung Life: $27,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Foundations: $17,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCornerstone Faith Assembly Ministry: $15,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetChristian Leadership International Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetDynamic Church Planting International: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLazarian World Homes Inc: $12,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSouthern California Hospice Foundat Attn Michelle Wulfestieg: $7,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetPasadena Christian School: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Prayer Column: $1,000 over 1y, 33% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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Find your warmest path to Lazarian Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Lazarian Foundation Inc

How much does Lazarian Foundation Inc give?
Lazarian Foundation Inc reported 11 grants totaling $192,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lazarian Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (47%), International (33%), Religion (11%).
Who are Lazarian Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Door of Hope ($309k), Young Life ($27k), International Accelerated Missions Inc ($23k).
Does Lazarian Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lazarian Foundation Inc 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 Lazarian Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Lazarian Foundation Inc based?
Lazarian Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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