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Karyn Gerschel Lamb 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.

$41k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
12
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 18
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$1.0M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$41k9%
FY202312$40k42%
FY202211$42k9%
FY202118$45k39%
FY202014$31k43%
FY201915$43k40%
FY201818$40k50%
FY201713$29kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$103kArts & Culture$98kRecreation & Sports$49kHealth$29kYouth Development$9kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$5kEnvironment$4kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
UT
CO
VA
DC
LA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees
All grantees of Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc$61,75081%
Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School$37,50070%
Brooks School$25,00030%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$20,00020%
Les Dames D'Aspen LTD$18,05084%
Jazz at Aspen-Snowmass$10,50030%
Aspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc$7,86030%
Washington and Lee University$7,50010%
Boys & Girls Club of Pbc$6,50050%
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation$5,00010%
The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc$5,00010%
Red Sneakers for Oakley Inc$4,75051%
The Vincent Club Inc$3,80080%
Palm Beach Day Academy Inc$3,00020%
Save Venice Inc$3,00010%
The Everglades Foundation Inc$2,97030%
Sing for Hope Inc$2,50020%
Proctor Academy$2,50030%
The Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc$2,30020%
Kieve Wavus Education Inc$2,20030%
The Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc$1,82540%
The Boys' Club of New York$1,75020%
Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc$1,50010%
French Heritage Society Inc$1,00010%
Hope for Depression Research Foundation$1,00010%
Community Foundation Inc$1,0001n/a
Grant Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Artsconnection Inc$1,00010%
JustWorld International Inc$50010%
The Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball Inc$45010%
Lung Cancer Research Foundation$40010%
Aspen Center for Environmental Studies$25010%
Norton Museum of Art Inc$25010%
The Lord's Place Inc$25010%
Cancer Alliance of Help and Hope Inc$20010%
Fashion Scholarship Fund$17510%
Opportunity Inc of Palm Beach County$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($66k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAnn Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc: $61,750 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAllen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School: $37,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBrooks School: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLes Dames D'Aspen LTD: $18,050 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetJazz at Aspen-Snowmass: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Valley Skisnowboard Club Inc: $7,860 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWashington and Lee University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Pbc: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRed Sneakers for Oakley Inc: $4,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetThe Vincent Club Inc: $3,800 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPalm Beach Day Academy Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave Venice Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $2,970 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSing for Hope Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProctor Academy: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Zoological Society of the Palm Beaches Inc: $2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKieve Wavus Education Inc: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc: $1,825 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys' Club of New York: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrench Heritage Society Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHope for Depression Research Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrant Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArtsconnection Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJustWorld International Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLung Cancer Research Foundation: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAspen Center for Environmental Studies: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorton Museum of Art Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Lord's Place Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Alliance of Help and Hope Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFashion Scholarship Fund: $175 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpportunity Inc of Palm Beach County: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 36.

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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 Charitable Gift FundNY16.3× 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 · The Mullen Family Foundation Inc · The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation · Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal 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.

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About Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation

How much does Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation give?
Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $41,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (32%), Recreation & Sports (16%).
Who are Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens Inc ($62k), Allen-Chase Foundation Dba Eaglebrook School ($38k), Brooks School ($25k).
Does Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Karyn Gerschel Lamb 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 Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The Mullen Family Foundation Inc, The Mary Alice Fortin Foundation.
Where is Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation based?
Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation is based in NY.

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 48 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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