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Edward Lamb Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHERRY STREET MISSION | $5,500 |
| AMERICAN CANCER CENTER-LUCAS | $4,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO | $4,500 |
| HUMANE OHIO | $4,000 |
| WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,500 |
| HOSPICE OF NW OHIO | $3,500 |
| VALENTINE THEATER | $3,500 |
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND | $3,000 |
| FORT MEIGS ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| JENNINGS CNTR FOR OLDER ADULTS | $3,000 |
| WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| NATURE'S NURSERY | $3,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF ST CECILIA | $3,000 |
| WELSH ACADEMY | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JCJENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS7× · 2018–2024 · $62k · revenue +63%
- BUBROOKE USA INC6× · 2018–2023 · $28k · revenue +3%
- NNNATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR7× · 2018–2024 · $27k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF TOLEDOone grant, 2019 · $3k
- MVMAUMEE VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $2k
- TVTOLEDO VALENTINE THEATERone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
Animal shelter that focuses on adoption, spay and neuter, and other humane education with the goal of making euthanasia of healthy animals unnecessary.
The society is dedicated to promoting care for all animals. we strive to never turn away sick or injured. our goal is to bring about a world where humane societies are no longer necessary.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
See schedule oto care for and to provide temporary and indefinite shelter and care for homeless and abandoned dogs and cats by promoting and sponsoring animal welfare education programs, adoptions, preventive veterinary care, and a…
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Finding committed, permanent homes for companion animals in our community; measurably reducing companion animal overpopulation; educating and promoting humane values.
The ohio society for the prevention of cruelty to animals works to prevent and stop cruelty to animals throughout ohio. our mission falls into three main areas: 1) intervention in cases of animal cruelty, 2) animal rehabilitation, and 3)…
The ohio bird sanctuary is a public facility that offers care for injured & displaced wildlife, promotes conservation through education and stewardship and provides the opportunity for all individuals to make a connection with nature.
Rescue and adopt domestic animals. Low cost spay and neuter programs. Prevent animal abuse.
To enable other community organizations to end hunger. we strive to maximize community resources by effectively obtaining and distributing food through a food collection and distribution system.
Empowering people. saving wildlife.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobile Meals of Toledo Inc and the most unlike its peers is 4 Paws Sake. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 49 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 JENNINGS CENTER FOR OLDER ADULTS ↗
- Who funds BROOKE USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATURES NURSERY CENTER FOR WILDLIFE REHAB & CONSR ↗
- Who funds HUMANE OHIO ↗
- Who funds WOOD COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER TOLEDO ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF NORTHWEST OHIO ↗
- Who funds BLACK SWAMP CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE FORT MEIGS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAUMEE VALLEY SAVE A PET ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOBILE MEALS OF TOLEDO INC ↗
- Who funds THE LUCAS COUNTY-MAUMEE VALLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PETHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds TOLEDO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY WILBERFORCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds 4 PAWS SAKE ↗
- Who funds CHERRY STREET MISSION MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds WOMENSAFE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD INITIATIVES ↗
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: Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The O-I Charities Foundation · United Way of Greater Toledo · John Henry Eldred Jr Foundation · Andersons Foundation · The Andersons Fund Supporting Organization · Robert C and Susan M Savage Family Foundation · The Tkbw Private Foundation · Stranahan Foundation · John & Virginia Hankison Foundation · Clement O Miniger Memorial Foundati Co Trust Company Family Office · Toledo Community Foundation Inc Seneca Fund
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 Edward Lamb Foundation Inc 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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