· Private foundation
Donald F &Charlene K Lamberti Foundation
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 $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $253k
- $250k+1 grant · $6.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ITALIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF | $6,000,000 |
| FORGE COALITION FOR FAMILY FLOURISH | $90,000 |
| CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF DES MOINES | $63,200 |
| WORLD FOOD PRIZE | $50,000 |
| NET MINISTRIES INC | $50,000 |
| MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA | $40,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CATH UNIVERSITY STUDENTS | $30,000 |
| JAMES ARTHUR ALBERT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| IOWANS SUPPORTING ISRAEL | $25,000 |
| BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| RUTH HARBOR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD SERVE | $25,000 |
| DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| CATHOLICS COME HOME INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $205k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ICITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA4× · 2017–2025 · $6.0M · revenue ×33 · 49% of their budget
- BOBRIDGES OF IOWA2× · 2020–2022 · $300k · revenue +612% · 31% of their budget
- OWON WITH LIFE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $259k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- BMBROADLAWNS MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIOone grant, 2017 · $100k
- OLOUR LADY'S IMMACULATE HEART CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $75k
- SAST ALBERT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To inform, instruct and inspire people through the media about the sacred scriptures and teachings of the roman catholic church
Catholic answers is an apostolate dedicated to serving christ by bringing the fullness of catholic truth to the world. we help good catholics become better catholics, bring former catholics home, and lead non-catholics into the fullness of…
Ave Maria Communications (AMC)employs radio, internet and other media to offer news, analysis, teaching, devotion and music to demonstrate Catholic values.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Provision of christ centered education with scholastic excellence.
Aac's purpose is to build up and defend great commission anglican churches in north america through developing faithful leaders, equipping local churches and engaging the church and culture with gospel clarity.
To serve non-public Christian schools in the State of Iowa.
Engages, equips and empowers learners to explore their vocations, fulfill their potential and serve the world.
To proclaim the gospel, grow the messianic jewish community and engage the church concerning israel and the jewish people. this is done through education, evangelism and being a movement leader, all with excellence in order to transform…
The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…
The purpose of the Corporation is to service the evolving needs of nonpublic school start-ups, foster the sustainability and growth of existing schools, and to provide support, education, and collaboration opportunities to Christian…
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 93 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.
- Who funds ITALIAN-AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION OF DES MOINES IOWA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds ON WITH LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ANKENY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Catholics Come Home Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC BATTLESHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ST GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE DEFENDING FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN CHOICE OF IOWA ↗
- Who funds HOPE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds JAMES ARTHUR ALBERT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ETERNAL WORD TELEVISION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BIKING FOR BABIES ↗
- Who funds CHILDSERVE INC ↗
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: Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Inc · Meredith Corporation Foundation · R & R Realty Group Foundation · Krause Gentle Foundation · Bookey Family Foundation · Bravo Greater Des Moines Inc · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Pella Rolscreen Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Erickson Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donald F &Charlene K Lamberti Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donald F &Charlene K Lamberti Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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