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Lamb Family Foundation %Dave Lamb
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVE OUR YOUTH | $55,000 |
| THE LIVING DESERT ZOO AND GARDENS | $50,000 |
| ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF OC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $10,000 |
| THINK TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| MERCY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INT'L - UKRAINE | $8,000 |
| SHERMAN LIBRARY GARDENS | $5,000 |
| GIRLS INC | $5,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMAZON FRONT LINE | $5,000 |
| KIDWORKS | $5,000 |
| CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- SOSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY6× · 2019–2024 · $358k · revenue +11%
- LDLIVING DESERT THE7× · 2018–2024 · $352k · revenue +153%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY7× · 2018–2024 · $180k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CCAPOCone grant, 2021 · $20k
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESSgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +49%- HFHOME FOR REFUGEESone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
Habitat for humanity's mission is to give witness to the christian gospel by working with god's people to build decent habitats for those who are inadequately sheltered in orange county.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
We inspire and educate young minds through engaging science-based programs and exhibits to create a meaningful impact on the communities we serve.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Crystal Cove Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 27 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 SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THINK TOGETHER ↗
- Who funds MIRACLES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE LIVING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds Laguna Beach Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds Serving People In Need Inc ↗
- Who funds AMAZON FRONTLINES ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL COVE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Segerstrom Center for the Arts ↗
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · The Devto Support Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Frome Family Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community 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 Lamb Family Foundation %Dave Lamb 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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