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LAZARUS HOUSE INC

LAZARUS HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,871,538 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,783,580). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$8.6M
Funders on record
157
Grants received
$12M
Net assets
$10M
101/157 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 18%
01What it does

What Lazarus House Inc does

Mission

Opening doors out of poverty by providing shelter, food, clothing and education, and support for the homeless and the poor, in the lawrence, massachusetts area.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Providing food, clothing, education and shelter for people who suffer from poverty or who are homeless, in the greater lawrence, massachusetts area.

    $5,539,799 spentof which $8,100 as grants
    96% of program spending

  2. Operating a thrift store in the lawrence, massachusetts area where customers can purchase clothing and household items at very low, or no, cost.

    $202,024 spent
    4% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,741,823.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.5M) Expenses 100 ($8.3M) Net assets 100 ($5.4M)2018 Revenue 110 ($8.2M) Expenses 105 ($8.7M) Net assets 91 ($4.9M)2019 Revenue 118 ($8.8M) Expenses 105 ($8.7M) Net assets 92 ($5.0M)2020 Revenue 122 ($9.1M) Expenses 111 ($9.2M) Net assets 91 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 137 ($10M) Expenses 103 ($8.6M) Net assets 123 ($6.7M)2022 Revenue 146 ($11M) Expenses 92 ($7.7M) Net assets 183 ($9.9M)2023 Revenue 107 ($8.0M) Expenses 89 ($7.4M) Net assets 194 ($11M)2024 Revenue 101 ($7.6M) Expenses 92 ($7.6M) Net assets 193 ($10M)2025 Revenue 114 ($8.6M) Expenses 107 ($8.9M) Net assets 186 ($10M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (107)Net assets (186)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $5.2M to $8.2M (+57%).

$5.6M
$5.1M
$5.1M
$5.2M
$8.2M
$10M
$11M
$11M
$10M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 0% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of LAZARUS HOUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,214 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$827k
’17
−$514k
’18
$90k
’19
−$49k
’20
$1.7M
’21
$3.2M
’22
$608k
’23
−$52k
’24
−$352k
’25
8.2
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

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Listed232426252226221823
Joined·+3+2+1+1+10+0+3+5
No longer listed·20246470
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 28 funders to 68 funders, grant income rose $315k → $1.4M.

Funder
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total
Boston Area Gleaners Incunclassified
$86k
funders
28
46
51
77
75
78
68
62
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20 of 157 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of LAZARUS HOUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 157 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

LAZARUS HOUSE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LAZARUS HOUSE INC.

32%
largest funder
43%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 51% · 2019 29% · 2020 31% · 2021 32% · 2022 31% · 2023 25% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

58% of LAZARUS HOUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

52% of LAZARUS HOUSE INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.7M that is directly attributable, 74% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LAZARUS HOUSE INC is better cushioned than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding LAZARUS HOUSE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $335k on record.

State$335k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$335k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like LAZARUS HOUSE INC

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

House of Hope Housing Inc83%Louison Properties Inc82%House of Hope Inc81%Saint Francis House Inc80%Southeastern Mass Veterans Housing Program Inc80%Lowell Transitional Living Center Inc79%Lighthouse School Inc79%Neighborhood Housing Services of the South Shore Inc79%

Nationally

Lazarus House90%The Lazarus Project Inc84%House of Hope Housing Inc83%Lazarus House Ministries Inc83%Lawrence Habitat for Humanity83%Project Lazarus82%Lazarus Ministries Kc82%Louison Properties Inc82%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 11%Fundraising 11%

Governance

22
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Lazarus Hope LLC · partnership
  • Lazarus Hope Housing Inc · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAZARUS HOUSE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC?
LAZARUS HOUSE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 157 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,871,538 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,783,580). 101 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LAZARUS HOUSE INC have?
IRS filings report 157 organizations giving $11,871,538 in grants to LAZARUS HOUSE INC, 101 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LAZARUS HOUSE INC?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,783,580 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LAZARUS HOUSE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 157 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing