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Lazarz Family Foundation Inc

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.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$252kHealth$127kFood & Nutrition$32kReligion$30kHuman Services$17kArts & Culture$4kHousing & Shelter$4kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$30,000
FELLER SCHOOL INC$10,000
SALLY J SCHNARR FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $5k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $4k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $3k → 10%MIDDLETON OUTREACH MINISTRY: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$410k · 17 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

$410k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+31%

Still filing today

65%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $185k · revenue +39%
  • RH
    RESTORING HOPE TRANSPLANT HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +12%
  • FS
    FELLER SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +174%

Funded once

  • UH
    UW HEALTH AMERICAN FAMILY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • AF
    AM FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

2
Wisconsin Lutheran Home Ministries Inc

To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.

3
Disability Rights Wisconsin Inc

Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.

4
Fisher House Wisconsin Inc

The mission or core purpose of fisher house wisconsin (fhw) is to:1. provide a "home away from home" for families of veterans and service members receiving medical care from any designated veterans administration (va) hospital or medical…

Health
5
Horizon Home Care & Hospice Inc

Horizon home care & hospice, inc. is a full-service provider offering a wide range of specialty services to meet the needs of patients in southeastern wisconsin. as an extension of a network of acute-care hospitals and other health care…

Health
6
Wisconsin Realtors Association Inc

To unite local boards of realtors and individuals in the state of wisconsin for the purpose of serving its members by furnishing programs and services that promote an environment in which its members may successfully conduct their…

7
The Uwm Real Estate Foundation Inc

To partner with the public and private sectors to develop and hold real estate for the benefit of the university of wisconsin-milwaukee. the uwm real estate foundation, inc. holdings may include any properties that advance the mission of…

Housing & Shelter
8
Harwood Place Inc

Harwood place, inc. is dedicated to serving older adults and enriching the lives of those we touch by providing compassionate and loving care.

Housing & Shelter
9
Door County Land Trust Inc

The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.

Environment
10
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities Midwest Mn Wi Ia

To provide a "home away from home and offer support to families seeking medical care for their children.

11
Wisconsin Association of Health Plans Inc

Promote a positive state legislative and regulatory climate for wisconsin's community health plans. the association communicates with regulatory agencies to promote issue positions representing community health plans.

12
Uwm Research Foundation Inc

Support research and innovation at the university of wisconsin - milwaukee by providing reserach funding, entrepreneurship support, and by engaging in corporate partnering activities to that end.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sally J Schnarr 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.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $185,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONSALLY J SCHNARR FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationSALLY J SCHNARR FOUNDATION INCFELLER SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · EducationFELLER SCHOOL INC+2 more — $12,000 · EducationST THOMAS AQUINAS PARISH — $30,000 · OtherST THOMAS AQUINAS PARISHIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUW HEALTH AMERICAN FAMILY — $25,000 · OtherUW HEALTH AMERICAN FAMILYAM FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $25,000 · OtherAM FAMILY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALTHE SALVATION ARMY — $11,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYSECOND HARVEST — $10,000 · OtherSECOND HARVESTEMPTY STOCKING CLUB — $5,000 · Other+6 more — $11,000 · Other+6 moreRESTORING HOPE TRANSPLANT HOUSE — $72,500 · HealthRESTORING HOPE TRA…+2 more — $4,000 · HealthWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $12,500 · Human ServicesNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $4,000 · Arts & CulturePORCHLIGHT INC — $4,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$227,000Other$142,000Health$76,500Human Services$12,500Arts & Culture$4,000Housing & Shelter$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $185,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORING HOPE TRANSPLANT HOUSE — $72,500 over 7y, 4.3% of budgetSALLY J SCHNARR FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetFELLER SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetWAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC — $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUKE HOUSE INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPORCHLIGHT INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAWHIDE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION
  • Who funds RESTORING HOPE TRANSPLANT HOUSE
  • Who funds SALLY J SCHNARR FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds FELLER SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds WAYFORWARD RESOURCES INC
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NORTH LAKELAND DISCOVERY CENTER INC
  • Who funds LUKE HOUSE INC
  • Who funds PORCHLIGHT INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF WISCONSIN INC
  • Who funds RAWHIDE 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.

Alliant Energy Foundation IncWI15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Madison Investments Foundation Inc · Sub-Zero Group Foundation Inc · Endres Manufacturing Foundation Inc · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lazarz Family Foundation Inc 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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