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Lamb Baldwin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$544kEducation$307kInternational$155kEnvironment$90kHealth$81kHuman Services$65kRecreation & Sports$54kHousing & Shelter$29kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $102k
$5,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME$20,000
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY$15,000
JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON$15,000
PORTLAND ART MUSEUM$15,000
FRIENDS OF PIR$15,000
COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL$12,000
SWARTHMORE COLLEGE$10,000
FOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER$9,141
CARES NORTHWEST$7,500
RIDE CONNECTION$7,500
OREGON SHORES CONSERVATION COALITION$5,600
CRAG LAW CENTER$5,000
PORTLAND YOUTH PHILHARMONIC$5,000
TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL$5,000
CONFLUENCE$4,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YMCA OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $5k → 12%YMCA OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $3k → 12%YMCA OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $3k → 12%YMCA OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $2k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON: $4k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON: $3k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON: $2k → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS OREGON: $2k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $8k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $8k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $8k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $5k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $5k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $5k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $5k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $5k → 12%RIDE CONNECTION: $5k → 12%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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 30 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -74% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
4

Total granted

$1.4M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-74%

Still filing today

90%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PORTLAND ART MUSEUM
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +3%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
    9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +77%
  • JA
    JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON
    9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • HG
    HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • OC
    OREGON COMMUNITY RECOVERY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $8k
  • City Club of Portland
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -74%
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.

1
Portland Public Library

Portland Public Library is a welcoming cultural center that brings people together and connects them with trusted resources, ideas, experiences, and information. We build a stronger community by inspiring learning, creativity, and…

Education
2
Portland Museum Inc

Portland museum is an innovative and compelling neighborhood museum. the museum boldly weaves exhibitions, performances, collections, and educational programs to excite, challenge and illuminate our neighbors, visitors, and participants…

—
3
Portland Business Alliance

To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.

Community Improvement
4
Regional Arts & Culture Council

To enrich our communities through arts and culture.

Arts & Culture
5
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
6
Oregon Restaurant and Lodging Association

Orla serves as the leading industry advocate, striving to protect, improve and promote oregon hospitality.

—
7
Center for Contemporary Art & Culture

To enliven and expand the understanding of craft and the museum experience for all.

Arts & Culture
8
Western Rivers Conservancy

Western rivers conservancy's mission is to protect outstanding river ecosystems in the western united states. continued on schedule o.we acquire land to conserve critical habitat, provide public access for compatible use and enjoyment, and…

Environment
9
Oregon Research Institute

Oregon research institute is an independent behavioral sciences research center dedicated to understanding human behavior and improving the quality of human life through the prevention and treatment of health, educational, and social…

Social Science
10
Technology Association of Oregon

To support our members and promote the growth and quality of oregon's technology industry by providing opportunities for business and professional development through networking and informational programs.

—
11
Portland Baroque Orchestra

Pbo creates transformative experiences for musicians and listeners who share in the exploration and celebration of historically inspired music. the professional orchestra presents world-class performances on period instruments for up to…

Arts & Culture
12
Oregon Public Broadcasting

Connecting people across oregon and the pacific northwest through the power of a shared story.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Portland Youth Philharmonic Association; the most unlike its peers is Vintage Trolley Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 34 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $160,000 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUMJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON: $110,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGONOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $52,500 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIAT…FOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM: $52,141 · Arts & CultureFOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSE…OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Arts & CulturePortland Youth Philharmonic Association: $15,500 · Arts & CultureCONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $21,500 · Arts & CulturePACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART: $80,000 · OtherPACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF …OREGON SHORES CONSERVATION COALITION: $52,100 · OtherOREGON SHORES CONSERVATION CO…TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL: $42,500 · OtherTUCKER MAXON SCHOOLTransition Projects Inc: $28,500 · OtherTransition Projects IncOREGON FOOD BANK: $22,250 · OtherOREGON FOOD BANKVINTAGE TROLLEY INC: $20,000 · OtherVINTAGE TROLLEY INCANTFARM INC: $16,000 · OtherHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN: $15,000 · OtherPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherCRAG LAW CENTER: $37,500 · OtherCRAG LAW CENTER+6 more: $34,000 · Other+6 moreCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $92,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY TRANSITIO…WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationWILLAMETTE UNIVERSI…SWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $70,000 · EducationSWARTHMORE COLLEGEAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $155,000 · InternationalAMERICAN ACA…RIDE CONNECTION INC: $52,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $12,000 · Human ServicesDress for Success Oregon: $10,600 · Human ServicesRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $67,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF PIR: $54,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$446,641Other$360,350Education$237,000International$155,000Human Services$75,100Health$67,500Public Benefit$54,000

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 budgetPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $160,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME: $155,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON: $110,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $92,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE: $70,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF PIR: $54,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $52,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRIDE CONNECTION INC: $52,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM: $52,141 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetOREGON SHORES CONSERVATION COALITION: $52,100 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetTUCKER MAXON SCHOOL: $42,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCRAG LAW CENTER: $37,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTransition Projects Inc: $28,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON FOOD BANK: $22,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVINTAGE TROLLEY INC: $20,000 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetOREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetANTFARM INC: $16,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPortland Youth Philharmonic Association: $15,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $15,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Youth Symphony: $11,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDress for Success Oregon: $10,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPICKLEBERRY PIE INC: $10,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCity Club of Portland: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds PORTLAND ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME ↗
  • Who funds JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF OREGON ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC NORTHWEST COLLEGE OF ART ↗
  • Who funds WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds RANDALL CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PIR ↗
  • Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIDE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds FOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds OREGON SHORES CONSERVATION COALITION ↗
  • Who funds TUCKER MAXON SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CRAG LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Transition Projects Inc ↗
  • Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds VINTAGE TROLLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON RAIL HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ANTFARM INC ↗
  • Who funds Portland Youth Philharmonic Association ↗
  • Who funds CONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF COLUMBIA-WILLAMETTE ↗
  • Who funds Metropolitan Youth Symphony ↗
  • Who funds OREGON COAST AQUARIUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Dress for Success Oregon ↗
  • Who funds PICKLEBERRY PIE INC ↗
  • Who funds City Club of Portland ↗

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 Oregon Community …The Jackson FoundationThe Collins FoundationM J Murdock Charitabl…Wheeler FoundationJuan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Autzen FoundationThe Robert D and Marc…Marie Lamfrom Charita…Rose E Tucker Charita…Braemar Charitable Tr…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR38.6× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Jackson Foundation · The Collins Foundation · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · Wheeler Foundation · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Rose E Tucker Charitable Trust · Braemar Charitable Trust

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 Lamb Baldwin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lamb Baldwin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Antfarm Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Transition Projects Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Community Transitional School: 7% of income from government
  • Japanese American Museum of Oregon: 5% of income from government
  • Ride Connection Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition: 3% of income from government
  • Willamette University: 1% of income from government
  • Young Men's Christian Association of Columbia-Willamette: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Youth Symphony: 1% of income from government
  • Portland Youth Philharmonic Association: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Randall Childrens Hospital Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Portland State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lamb Baldwin Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lamb Baldwin 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 34 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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