Missouri · Private foundation
Joe and Lenore Lambert 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.
- $552k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $552k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $483k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $643k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $391k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $384k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $424k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $450k | 24% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $423k | 48% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chillicothe Educational Foundation | $1,544,624 | 9 | 41% |
| Grand River Area Family YMCA Inc | $330,462 | 7 | 3% |
| Livingston County Veterans Association | $255,000 | 6 | 30% |
| Hope Haven Industries Inc | $175,819 | 5 | 8% |
| Hedrick Medical Center Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 88% |
| Friends of Chillicothe Parks Inc | $103,450 | 2 | n/a |
| Chillicothe Area Christian Builders | $80,000 | 7 | 71% |
| Home of Sliced Bread Corporation | $65,500 | 1 | 35% |
| Fosteradopt Connect Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fellowship of Christian Athletes | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 16 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation · Hal F Juckette Family Foundation · Livingston County Community Foundation · Roger a Browning Foundation Inc · Carl C & Ardath Hudnall Foundation · Minnie B Hedrick Trust · Fm & Gladys McCall Foundation · James Allbritain Lawson Charitable Trust · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation
- How much does Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation give?
- Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $552,148 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Religion (15%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Chillicothe Educational Foundation ($1.5M), Grand River Area Family YMCA Inc ($330k), Livingston County Veterans Association ($255k).
- Does Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation 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 Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mervyn W Jenkins Foundation, Hal F Juckette Family Foundation, Livingston County Community Foundation.
- Where is Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation based?
- Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation is based in MO.
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