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Frank I Lamb Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2018–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $2k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PUEBLO LIBRARY DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| SANGRE DE CRISTO COMMUNITY CARE | $25,000 |
| CSU PUEBLO FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SANGRE DE CRISTO ARTS & CONF CENTER | $20,000 |
| NATURE & WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF PIKES PEAK REGION | $1,500 |
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 (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +36% since the first grant, against -54% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- CSCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION5× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +99%
- PZPUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY2× · 2018–2019 · $35k · revenue +57%
- NANATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SDSANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICEone grant, 2019 · $25k
- RMROCKY MTN COUNCIL BOY SCOUTSone grant, 2021 · $20k
- CACOURT APPOINTED SPEC ADVOCone grant, 2018 · $16k
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.
The agency is a conservation Center near Pueblo, CO, where land and people can provide unique experiences in education, conservation and recreation that inspire responsible environmental stewardship.
The mission of the Colorado Wildlife Heritage Foundation is to provide a legacy for Colorado through support of environmental stewardship conservation of wildlife and the protection of critical habitat.
Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.
Rocky mountain wild works to protect, connect, and restore wildlife and wild lands in the southern rocky mountain region. we work to secure the biodiversity of the mountains, plains, and desert ecosystems of colorado, wyoming, utah, and…
To develop and increase charitable giving that connects donors to community needs in Southwest Colorado and to support the nonprofit sector through granting and educational opportunities.
Enrich lives and celebrate nature in southern Colorado
The Center for Nonprofit Excellence strengthens Southern Colorado's nonprofit sector through leadership and resource development, advocacy and collaboration. Together, with our partners, we are co-creating a vibrant community in the Pikes…
To build a lasting connection to the pikes peak region by preserving and sharing our cultural history. this mission is accomplished through our support of the colorado springs pioneers museum, owned and operated by the city of colorado…
The mission of the Colorado Physician Health Program Corporation is to promote the health and well-being of physicians and physician assistants through evaluation, treatment referral, support education and research.
Grief support to those who have lost a loved one.
Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.
Stray Hearts is a socially conscious shelter and adoption facility reuniting lost pets with their families and providing humane care and shelter for surrendered, lost, and homeless companion animals in Taos County, New Mexico.Our pledge:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Colorado Community Foundat and the most unlike its peers is Beulah Heritage Preservation League. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 26 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 BEULAH HERITAGE PRESERVATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY- PUEBLO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PUEBLO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATURE AND WILDLIFE DISCOVERY CENTER ↗
- Who funds SANGRE DE CRISTO HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN COLORADO COMMUNITY FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds SHIELD 616 INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE PIKES PEAK REGION ↗
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: The Denver Foundation · Southern Colorado Community Foundat · Robert Hoag Rawlings Foundation · El Pomar Foundation · Garone-Nicksich Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · Ryals Family Foundation · The Bob and Doris Johnston Foundation · Caring for Colorado Centennial Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Frank I Lamb 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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