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Gerard B Lambert Foundation at a glance

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Gerard B Lambert Foundation

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.

$8.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$10MHealth$9.8MEducation$7.2MRecreation & Sports$2.9MScience & Tech$2.2MReligion$1.0MInternational$545kEnvironment$465kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.9M
  • $250k+7 grants · $6.7M
$150,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$95M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC$2,000,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$1,000,000
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$1,000,000
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART$1,000,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$452,301
SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS PRESERVE$250,000
FRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC$225,000
US SCIENCES PO FOUNDATION$219,580
WHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$200,000
INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY$200,000
TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH$175,000
PENFAULKNER FOUNDATION$150,000
RXART INC$150,000
CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER$150,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $20k → 13%RXART INC: $500k → 17%RXART INC: $150k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
MA
NJ
CT
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
LA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$30M · 24 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
12

Total granted

$30M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+31%

Still filing today

75%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalEnvironmentReligionOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CN
    CHILDREN'S NATIONAL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $6.9M · revenue +328% · 77% of their budget
  • US
    US Sciences PO Foundation
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +64% · 71% of their budget
  • WM
    WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +215%

Funded once

  • VO
    VIRGINIA OUTDOORS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $1.9M
  • NL
    NANTUCKET LAND BANK COMMISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $922k
  • FF
    Fairfield Foundation of Virginia Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +425% · 44% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
2
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
3
Berggruen Institute
Education
4
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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7
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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8
New York Historical Society

The founding mission of the new-york historical society ("the new york historical "tnyh") is to collect, preserve, and interpret, for the broadest possible public, material relevant to the history of the united states in general and of new…

Arts & Culture
9
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
10
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rx Art Inc; the most unlike its peers is Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 44 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $6,850,116 · HealthCHILDREN'S NATIONALTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,000,000 · HealthTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICA…+2 more: $270,000 · HealthWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $5,060,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,700,000 · Arts & CultureWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASS…National Gallery of Art: $1,225,000 · Arts & CultureNational Gallery of Art+4 more: $260,000 · Arts & CultureUS Sciences PO Foundation: $5,547,761 · EducationUS Sciences PO FoundationTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $1,255,000 · EducationTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL…GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY+3 more: $300,000 · EducationVIRGINIA OUTDOORS FOUNDATION: $1,930,000 · OtherVIRGINIA OUTDOORS …NANTUCKET LAND BANK COMMISSION: $922,117 · OtherNANTUCKET LAND BAN…COLLINGS FOUNDATION: $350,000 · OtherCOLLINGS FOUNDATIO…FRENCH ACADEMY IN ROME - VILLA MEDICI: $300,000 · OtherCONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD: $220,000 · OtherPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $210,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $450,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF FONDATI…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $420,000 · OtherCHAPEL & YORK US F…SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $250,000 · Other+13 more: $711,500 · Other+13 moreINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $2,175,000 · Science & TechOAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION: $827,124 · Religion+1 more: $25,000 · ReligionRX ART INC: $650,000 · Human Services+1 more: $20,000 · Human Services
Health$9,120,116Arts & Culture$8,245,000Education$8,102,761Other$5,763,617Science & Tech$2,175,000Religion$852,124Human Services$670,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILDREN'S NATIONAL: $6,850,116 over 6y, 77% of budgetUS Sciences PO Foundation: $5,547,761 over 5y, 71% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $5,060,000 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION: $2,175,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MEDSTAR-GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER INC: $2,000,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $1,700,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE AND ART INC: $1,255,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetNational Gallery of Art: $1,225,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAK SPRING GARDEN FOUNDATION: $827,124 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetRX ART INC: $650,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetFRIENDS OF FONDATION DE FRANCE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $420,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetSOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetPEN FAULKNER FOUNDATION: $210,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetENDEAVOR THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC: $175,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetMATER DEI SCHOOL INC: $155,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFairfield Foundation of Virginia Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetROANOKE COLLEGE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERIDIAN INTERNATIONAL CENTER: $95,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetProject Knitwell: $95,000 over 5y, 63% of budgetPenland School Of Craft: $60,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENTS HILL SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL MUSEUM OF WORLD WAR II AVIATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRINITY-PAWLING SCHOOL CORPORATION: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetHANOVER CHARITIES USA INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCAPITAL HEALTH FOUNDATION-EAST TRENTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetEPISCOPAL CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLENOX LIFE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 67% of budget
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.

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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Renaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …The Bank of America C…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gerard B Lambert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerard B Lambert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Gerard B Lambert Foundation 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.

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 44 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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