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Anthony & April Lambatos Family Foundati

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.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute$10,000
The Gold Crown Foundation$6,000
Walking Mountain Science Center$5,000
Denver Public Library Friends Foundation$5,000
Vail Valley Foundation$5,000
Minds Matter$5,000
Patrick Surtain Foundation$4,400
D-Day Leadership Academy$2,500
Colorado Restaurant Foundation$2,500
Grow Foundation$2,000
University of Oregon Foundation$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY25–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Grow Foundation: $2k → 11%D-Day Leadership Academy: $3k → 9%University of Oregon Foundation: $1k → 15%Vail Valley Foundation: $5k → 7%Colorado Restaurant Foundation: $3k → 12%Patrick Surtain Foundation: $4k → 7%Walking Mountain Science Center: $5k → 7%Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute: $10k → 12%The Gold Crown Foundation: $6k → 12%Denver Public Library Friends Foundation: $5k → 12%Minds Matter: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Colorado State University Foundation

See schedule o colorado state university foundation assists in the promotion, development, and enhancement of facilities and educational programs and enhancements of faculty, students, and alumni of colorado state university (csu). this is…

Education
2
Colorado Restaurant Association

The colorado restaurant association is the champion for our state's restaurant and hospitality industry. we are trusted leaders for our community, protecting, serving, and promoting success from entry level to ownership.

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3
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
4
University of Colorado Foundation

The university of colorado foundation is the portal for philanthropic giving to the university of colorado and is responsible for receiving, managing, and investing the endowments and other gift funds the foundation holds for the benefit…

Education
5
The University of Montana Foundation

The university of montana foundation inspires philanthropic support to enhance excellence and opportunity at the university of montana.

Education
6
Portland State University Foundation

Portland state university foundation is responsible for raising and managing private resources to advance psu's priorities and mission to be a leading urban university.

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7
The Colorado State Fair Foundation

To enhance youth programming, education and experiences at the colorado state fair.

Arts & Culture
8
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education
9
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
10
Colorado State University- Pueblo Foundation

The foundation was established to promote colorado state university-pueblo and account for contributions from the general public for the benefit of the university. the foundation assists with approved fundraising activities, collects…

Education
11
University of Northern Colorado Foundation

The foundation is entrusted to provide support and steward donations for the university of northern colorado.

Education
12
Colorado Gives Foundation

We connect people, ideas, and nonprofits to make good happen. our vision is that all of jeffco is thriving.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gold Crown Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Tommy Spaulding Leadership Institute: $10,000 · EducationTommy Spaulding Leadership InstituteDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATIONWALKING MOUNTAINS: $5,000 · EducationWALKING MOUNTAINSTHE PATRICK SURTAIN II FOUNDATION INC: $4,400 · EducationTHE PATRICK SURTAIN II FOUNDATION INCCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATION: $2,500 · EducationCOLORADO RESTAURANT FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $6,000 · PhilanthropyGOLD CROWN FOU…MINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTE…VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementVAIL VALLEY…D-Day Leadership Academy: $2,500 · OtherD-Day Lead…Grow Foundation: $2,000 · OtherGrow Found…
Education$27,900Philanthropy$6,000Youth Development$5,000Community Improvement$5,000Other$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGOLD CROWN FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDENVER PUBLIC LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMINDS MATTER COLORADO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALKING MOUNTAINS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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