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Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$10k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$103kArts & Culture$98kRecreation & Sports$49kHealth$29kYouth Development$9kFood & Nutrition$5kAnimals$5kEnvironment$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULANE UNIVERSITY$10,000
PALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATION$10,000
ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS$8,000
SAVE VENICE INC$3,000
JAZZ ASPEN SNOWMASS$3,000
EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL$2,500
LES DAMES D'ASPEN LTD$2,000
RED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC$1,000
SING FOR HOPE$1,000
THE PROCTOR FUND$500
THE VINCENT CLUB$400
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION: $1k → 9%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION: $1k → 9%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION: $200 → 9%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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NH
NY
MA
PA
UT
CO
VA
DC
LA
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 19% of Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$276k · 22 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

$276k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+69%

Still filing today

82%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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

  • AN
    ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +85%
  • AF
    ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +41%
  • BS
    BROOKS SCHOOL
    3× · 2020–2022 · $25k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • Washington and Lee Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue +69%
  • US
    UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +111%
  • TB
    THE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +89%
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.

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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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Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Aacsb International - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.

Education
5
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
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New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fashion Scholarship Fund; the most unlike its peers is Lung Cancer Research Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 48 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
29/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INC: $61,750 · OtherANN NORTON SCULPTURE GARDENS INCUS SKI TEAM AND SNOWBOARD TEAM FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherUS SKI TEAM AND SNOWBOARD TEAM FOUNDATIONPALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $21,000 · OtherPALM BEACH ISLAND HOSPICE FOUNDATIONLes Dames D'Aspen LTD: $18,050 · OtherLes Dames D'Aspen LTD+16 more: $19,340 · Other+16 moreALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL: $37,500 · EducationALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBRO…BROOKS SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationBROOKS SCHOOLTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $20,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE ED…Washington and Lee University: $7,500 · EducationWashington and Lee University+6 more: $6,475 · Education+6 moreJAZZ AT ASPEN-SNOWMASS: $10,500 · Arts & CultureTHE BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION FOR FAMILY LITERACY INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSING FOR HOPE INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $1,500 · Arts & CultureARTSCONNECTION INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureASPEN VALLEY SKISNOWBOARD CLUB INC: $7,860 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsRED SNEAKERS FOR OAKLEY INC: $4,750 · HealthTHE VINCENT CLUB INC: $3,800 · HealthHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthTHE DEBUTANTE COTILLION AND CHRISTMAS BALL INC: $450 · HealthLUNG CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $400 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK: $1,750 · Youth DevelopmentSAVE VENICE INC: $3,000 · InternationalFRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY INC: $1,000 · InternationalGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · International
Other$156,140Education$96,475Arts & Culture$20,750Recreation & Sports$12,860Health$10,400Youth Development$8,250International$5,000

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

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
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…The Mullen Family Fou…The Mary Alice Fortin…Community Foundation …National Philanthropi…The New York Communit…The Bessemer Giving F…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundThe Bank of America C…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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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How do I get to Karyn Gerschel Lamb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Karyn Gerschel Lamb 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 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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