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Lazarian Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$105k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% 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
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $105k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOOR OF HOPE$105,000
ARMENIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ASS$43,000
LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS$17,000
DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTL$7,500
INTERNATIONAL ACCELERATED MISSIONS$5,250
YOUNG LIFE$5,000
CORNERSTONE FAITH ASSEMBLY MINISTRY$2,500
CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL$2,500
LAZARIAN WORLD HOMES$2,500
THE PRAYER COLUMN$1,000
PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT: $2k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT: $1k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT: $1k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT: $1k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT: $1k → 10%SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
NY
CA
CO
AZ
MS
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$639k · 14 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$639k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
0%

Still filing today

50%
8%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalOther
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

  • DO
    DOOR OF HOPE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $309k · revenue +369%
  • YL
    YOUNG LIFE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $27k · revenue +59%
  • DC
    DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL
    2× · 2023–2024 · $14k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • HL
    HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH AND SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • LA
    LAKE AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • ML
    MOSAIC LA
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Practical Christianity Foundation
Religion
2
Christian Foundation
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3
Evangelism Partners International
Religion
4
Pwf Ministries
Religion
5
International Impact Ministries in
Religion
6
Building Great Foundations Ministries in
Education
7
Global Faith Network
Human Services
8
Emanual Ministries International
Religion
9
Spiritual Light Ministries
Religion
10
Transform Ministries
—
11
Filipino Cursillos in Christianity La
Religion
12
Cornerstone Church Network

Religous Organization

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life; the most unlike its peers is The Prayer Column. 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 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DOOR OF HOPE: $309,000 · OtherDOOR OF HOPEARMENIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ASS: $142,000 · OtherARMENIAN RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ASSARMENIA RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $60,000 · OtherARMENIA RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENTINTERNATIONAL ACCELERATED MISSIONS INC: $22,750 · Other+16 more: $47,100 · Other+16 moreCornerstone Faith Assembly Ministry: $15,000 · ReligionCHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL INC: $15,000 · Religion+1 more: $1,000 · ReligionYOUNG LIFE: $27,000 · Youth DevelopmentDYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL: $14,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT ATTN MICHELLE WULFESTIEG: $7,000 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS: $17,000 · Community ImprovementLazarian World Homes Inc: $12,500 · InternationalPASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $2,000 · Education
Other$580,850Religion$31,000Youth Development$27,000Human Services$21,000Community Improvement$17,000International$12,500Education$2,000

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

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
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 DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP FOUNDATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Cornerstone Faith Assembly Ministry ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds DYNAMIC CHURCH PLANTING INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Lazarian World Homes Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HOSPICE FOUNDAT ATTN MICHELLE WULFESTIEG ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PERKINS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Prayer Column ↗

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 Charit…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lazarian Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lazarian Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lazarian Foundation Inc?

    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.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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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