· Private foundation
The Julius and Dorothy Lazarus 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE JEWISH VOTERS RESOURCE CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BROTHERHOOD SYNAGOGUE | $17,500 |
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $15,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $15,000 |
| CHABAD SHUL OF POTOMAC | $12,000 |
| LEADERS INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| US HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| ADAS ISRAEL CONGREGATION | $5,000 |
| THE PUBLIC THEATER | $4,250 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $1,250 |
| BETHESDA COMMUNITY BASE BALL CLUB | $1,000 |
| EDLAVITCH JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF WASHINGTON DC | $1,000 |
| DC PRO BONO CENTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IPISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC4× · 2017–2023 · $226k · revenue +157%
- EUEmory University8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +80%
- NGNational Gallery of Art7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- OBOPERATION BENJAMIN INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +405%
- NYNew York Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +76%
- CFCENTER FOR CREATIVE CHANGE (MOMENT MAGAZINE)one grant, 2019 · $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.
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.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The weitzman national museum of american jewish history, on independence mall in philadelphia, presents educational programs and experiences that preserve, explore, and celebrate the history of jews in america. its purpose is to connect…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The university is composed of several colleges and schools providing undergraduate, graduate, professional and post-doctoral education and training and research and clinical programs.
The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…
The mission of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA National Memorial, Inc., doing business as the National Museum of American Jewish Military History, is to preserve, interpret, and share the history of Jewish Americans who have served in…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
To prepare students for the rabbinate and to issue the traditional certificate of ordination in connection therewith. the seminary is authorized to confer the degree of master of hebrew literature (m.h.l.), doctor of hebrew literature…
For over 150 years, the 92nd street y, new york has been serving its communities and the larger world by bringing people together (continued on schedule o)and providing exceptional, groundbreaking programs in the performing and visual…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 62 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Bubes Family Foundation Inc · The Gary and Pennie Abramson Charitable Foundation · The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington Inc · Michael and Deborah Ratner Salzberg Family Foundation · The Annette M Lerner and Theodore N Lerner Family Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Duber Family Foundation · Brian and Dafna Berman Family Foundation Inc · Bender Foundation Inc · The Dennis Berman Family Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Julius and Dorothy Lazarus Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Julius and Dorothy Lazarus Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bender Jcc of Greater Washington: 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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