Louisiana · Nonprofit
PROJECT LAZARUS
PROJECT LAZARUS (Louisiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,958 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($153,457). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $567k
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What Project Lazarus does
Mission
The mission of Project Lazarus is to help heal and empower people with hiv/aids by focusing on wellness, providing housing, and offering important support services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Project Lazarus provides transitional housing and supportive services to individuals living with hiv to ensure access to health care, increase medication education and adherence, address mental health and substance use disorders, promote a healthy diet and lifestyle, connect with community resources and access available benefits, including the opportunity to secure permanent housing. Project Lazarus provides supportive services in the areas of wellness and substance abuse, as well as housing case management for people living with hiv who are either homeless or at-risk for homelessness. Project Lazarus' clinical program is designed to address issues around substance use and addiction, mental and physcial health, medication management, stigma, and homelessness. Project Lazarus provides the following services to its participants: individual and group therapies, substance use disorder counseling, health education, housing case management, three nutritious meals per day, support for activities of daily living, transportation to doctor's appointments, work readiness training, and a safe space to call home. The goal of the Project Lazarus program is for participants to obtain and…
$794,518 spent$14,176 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $794,518.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $2.1M to $2.8M (+36%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 67% · 2018 62% · 2019 43% · 2020 42% · 2021 62% · 2022 47% · 2023 52% · 2024 67% · 2025 86%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of PROJECT LAZARUS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Susanne B Dietzel Phd
Executive director
Board chair
Gary Schiro
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income fell $116k → $67k.
4 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 PROJECT LAZARUS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 29 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
PROJECT LAZARUS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
59% 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 PROJECT LAZARUS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 29% · 2019 37% · 2020 31% · 2021 38% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“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
50% of PROJECT LAZARUS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
62% of PROJECT LAZARUS's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $228k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
PROJECT LAZARUS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PROJECT LAZARUS
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
54% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PROJECT LAZARUS: 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 PROJECT LAZARUS?
- PROJECT LAZARUS (Louisiana) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $566,958 to it, the largest being THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION ($153,457). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PROJECT LAZARUS have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $566,958 in grants to PROJECT LAZARUS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PROJECT LAZARUS?
- THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $153,457 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PROJECT LAZARUS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 29 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing