· 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| IOWANS SUPPORTING ISRAEL | $25,000 |
| HOPE MINISTRIES | $25,000 |
| BLESSMAN INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| JAMES ARTHUR ALBERT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RUTH HARBOR FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHILD SERVE | $25,000 |
| DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| CATHOLICS COME HOME INC | $20,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +105% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Leader Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is World Food Prize Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 38. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 13% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 GRAND VIEW CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY LEADER FOUNDATION 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 World Food Prize Foundation ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donald F &Charlene K Lamberti Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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