· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES | $5,000 |
| MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY EXTENSION COUNCIL | $2,500 |
| GRAND RIVER ENTERTAINMENT | $2,500 |
| GOOD DADS INC | $2,500 |
| GRAND RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| CHILLICOTHE R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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
How this is measured
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
- Who funds GOOD DADS INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joe and Lenore Lambert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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