· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| GRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA | $85,000 |
| CONCERNED CITIZENS | $60,000 |
| CHILLICOTHE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $30,000 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY EDUCATION & HOUSING COUNCIL | $25,148 |
| CHILLICOTHE AREA CHRISTIAN BUILDERS | $10,000 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONMAIN STREET | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF PRAYER RESCUE MISSION | $10,000 |
| MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| GRAND RIVER ENTERTAINMENT | $2,500 |
| GOOD DADS INC | $2,500 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY EXTENSION COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| GRAND RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| CHILLICOTHE R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 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 +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- CECHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +30% · 41% of their budget
- GRGRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA INC7× · 2018–2025 · $330k · revenue +89%
- HHHOPE HAVEN INDUSTRIES INC5× · 2019–2024 · $176k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- HOHOME OF SLICED BREAD CORPORATIONone grant, 2018 · $66k · revenue -60% · 35% of their budget
- FCFOSTERADOPT CONNECT INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +12%
- HOHOME OF SLICED BREAD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $15k
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.
An endowment fund designed to assist and support grand river area family ymca, inc.
Economic development in chillicothe, missouri.
To promote historic preservation, protection and use of chillicothe's downtown area by disseminating information of and promoting interest in the preservation, history, culture, architecture and diverse public use of chillicothe's…
Preservation of county history and the county museum.
County museum of historical artifacts
The museum collects and preserves memorabilia of cowley county, kansas. the museum is open to the public during scheduled hours, and is staffed by a combination of volunteers and staff.
Inspire communitys interest in the past
Collect and preserve area artifacts; maintain the 1892 historical building as a museum which includes the non-circulating historical library; preserve and record the history and culture of kutztown area
Maintain historical artifacts
Educate public on area history.
The chippewa area history center works to preserve local history and make it available to the public.
Non-profit museum
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand River Area Family Ymca Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grand River Historial Society Museum. 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 14 years old; the field is 30. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 16% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% 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.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 44 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 CHILLICOTHE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER AREA FAMILY YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY VETERANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE HAVEN INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEDRICK MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE AREA CHRISTIAN BUILDERS ↗
- Who funds HOME OF SLICED BREAD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTERADOPT CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds NORTH MISSOURI CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER HISTORIAL SOCIETY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GRAND RIVER ENTERTAINMENT ↗
- Who funds LIVINGSTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILLICOTHE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KELLY POLING ARTS DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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: 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
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 Joe and Lenore Lambert 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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