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THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC

THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,071 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.9M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$969k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What The Lazarus Project of Knoxville LLC does

Mission

To provide residential recover programs to and rehabilitate individuals dealing with substance abuse addictions to enter society as productive members

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Individuals are provided rehabilitation services including intensive on- site residential recovery, transitional housing, and independent housing programs. As a part of these services, residents are provided access to various necessary resources including but not limited to medical, dental, optical, and behavioral health care; life skills and employment training; legal case management; and individual and group counseling.

    $915,323 spent$1,836,189 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $915,323.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20222022 Revenue 100 ($189k) Expenses 100 ($194k) Net assets 100 ($17k)2023 Revenue 689 ($1.3M) Expenses 535 ($1.0M) Net assets 1462 ($249k)2024 Revenue 1001 ($1.9M) Expenses 597 ($1.2M) Net assets 5699 ($969k)
202220232024
Revenue (1001)Expenses (597)Net assets (5699)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $288k to $998k (+247%).

$17k
$288k
$998k
202220232024
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.

2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$6k
’22
$261k
’23
$729k
’24
5.2
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.

20232024
Listed22
Joined··
No longer listed··
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.

OH

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Organizations like THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC

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 Tennessee

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 21%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC?
THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC (Tennessee) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,071 to it, the largest being TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,071 in grants to THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC.
Who is the largest funder of THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC?
TIMKEN FOUNDATION OF CANTON is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE LAZARUS PROJECT OF KNOXVILLE LLC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2022–2024), and the filings of 2 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