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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.

$78k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
33
Grants FY2024
32
Organizations funded FY2023
3%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$5,500
Organizations funded a year
32 to 41
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations Edward Lamb Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Housing & ShelterEducationFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving33$78k0%
FY202332$77k3%
FY202241$108k7%
FY202137$144k5%
FY202035$87k6%
FY201938$93k5%
FY201839$92kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Animals$202kHuman Services$120kArts & Culture$71kEducation$70kHealth$64kPhilanthropy$36kFood & Nutrition$29kEnvironment$19kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($280k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Edward Lamb Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJennings Center for Older Adults: $62,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBrooke USA Inc: $28,250 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetNatures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr: $27,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetHumane Ohio: $24,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetWood County Humane Society: $22,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toledo: $22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHospice of Northwest Ohio: $21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Swamp Conservancy: $19,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Fort Meigs Association: $18,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetMaumee Valley Save a Pet: $15,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Cleveland: $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Cleveland Food Bank Inc: $12,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Great Lakes Historical Society: $11,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMobile Meals of Toledo Inc: $11,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lucas County-Maumee Valley Historical Society: $9,750 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetToledo Humane Society: $9,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Pethood Inc: $8,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetWilberforce University Wilberforce University: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetToledo Opera Association: $8,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Toledo Zoological Society: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget4 Paws Sake: $6,750 over 7y, 21% of budgetCherry Street Mission Ministries: $6,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWomensafe Inc: $5,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Food Initiatives: $5,250 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Victory Center: $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetToledo Day Nursery: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAurora Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 27.

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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.

Toledo Community Foundation IncOH45.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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Find your warmest path to Edward Lamb Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Edward Lamb Foundation Inc

How much does Edward Lamb Foundation Inc give?
Edward Lamb Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $77,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 32 and 41 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Edward Lamb Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (30%), Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (10%).
Who are Edward Lamb Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Jennings Center for Older Adults ($62k), Brooke USA Inc ($28k), Natures Nursery Center for Wildlife Rehab & Consr ($27k).
Does Edward Lamb Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Edward Lamb Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Edward Lamb Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Toledo Community Foundation Inc, The O-I Charities Foundation, United Way of Greater Toledo.
Where is Edward Lamb Foundation Inc based?
Edward Lamb Foundation Inc is based in OH.

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 49 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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