· Private foundation
Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $274k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $572k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROYAL CITY FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY | $200,000 |
| SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GRANT COUNTY PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT #5 | $100,000 |
| BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| EPHRATA HIGH SCHOOL PE DEPARTMENT | $72,000 |
| CENTRAL COLUMBIA SENIOR LIVING | $41,000 |
| SOAP LAKE FOOD BANK | $33,000 |
| COULEE CITY SENIOR CENTER | $33,000 |
| YOUTH DYNAMICS | $30,000 |
| SOAP LAKE SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| WILSON CREEK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| WASHINGTON STATE GRANGE FOUNDATION | $27,000 |
| ONLY7SECONDS | $15,000 |
| CARE MOSES LAKE | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $183k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in WA; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 8 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
- ESEphrata Senior Center4× · 2017–2023 · $147k · revenue +45%
- SHSAMARITAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2024 · $142k · revenue +532%
- O7ONLY 7 SECONDS4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- MCMATTAWA COMMUNITY MEDICAL CLINICone grant, 2017 · $150k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $125k
- BRBASIN RETIREMENT HOMEone grant, 2022 · $116k
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 mission of Lake Chelan Food Bank is to treat each person we serve with dignity and respect and to provide balanced and varied options that give each person the liberty to meet the specific food needs for themsevles and/or their family.
Camas Prairie Food Bank Inc collects food and cash donations to purchase food which it then distributes to directly to the local population. The distribution center is open 2 days per week from 10AM to 2PM for those in need to stop by and…
Provide food to local needy
Operate Food Bank
Revitalize the downtown core
To provide food and services in a caring and dignified manner to neighbors in need
Hold the Washington State Senior Games.
The montesano food bank provides food to the needy in grays harbor county, washington.
Columbia pacific food bank is the regional food distribution center for columbia county, oregon and local food pantry for the community of saint helens.
Providing essential services to columbia county residents
To provide Assistance to Senior Citizen Programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samaritan Healthcare Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Royal City Friends of the Library. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 16% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 108 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 BIG BEND COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Royal City Friends of the Library ↗
- Who funds Ephrata Senior Center ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONLY 7 SECONDS ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COLUMBIA SENIOR LIVING ↗
- Who funds SOAP LAKE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CHARITIES OF MOSES LAKE ↗
- Who funds Youth Dynamics ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH RESILIENCY AND ENGA ↗
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: Columbia Basin Foundation · Community Foundation of Ncw · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Columbia Family Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Second Harvest Inland Northwest · The Avista Foundation · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Artsfund · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · Greater Horizons · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Paul Lauzier Charitable 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Paul Lauzier Charitable Foundation 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.