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Lamb Family Foundation Inc

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.

$110k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$23,580
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,745
Organizations funded a year
3 to 11
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$4.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Lamb Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther
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 arriving6$110k0%
FY20233$63k33%
FY20227$174k29%
FY202111$148k55%
FY20209$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$255kArts & Culture$241kEnvironment$200kYouth Development$56kHealth$26kPhilanthropy$21kAnimals$6kInternational$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 13 grantees
All grantees of Lamb Family Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc$134,05131%
Friends of the Urban Forest$100,00021%
North Coast Land Conservancy Inc$99,60931%
Columbia River Maritime Museum$75,70831%
Portland Art Museum$29,18220%
Phoenix Multisport Inc$25,59010%
Neighbors Abroad$5,00013%
Palm Springs Pathfinders Inc$4,50031%
Pathfinder Ranch Inc$4,50030%
Bighorn Institute$1,75030%
Palm Springs Art Museum$1,00010%
Boys & Girls Club of Palm Springs$1,00010%
University of Oregon Foundation$27210%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSun Valley Summer Symphony Inc: $134,051 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFriends of the Urban Forest: $100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $99,609 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetColumbia River Maritime Museum: $75,708 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPortland Art Museum: $29,182 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix Multisport Inc: $25,590 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNeighbors Abroad: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPalm Springs Pathfinders Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPathfinder Ranch Inc: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBighorn Institute: $1,750 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPalm Springs Art Museum: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Palm Springs: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Oregon Foundation: $272 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 13.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Lamb Family Foundation Inc

How much does Lamb Family Foundation Inc give?
Lamb Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $110,339 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 11 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Lamb Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Arts & Culture (30%), Environment (25%).
Who are Lamb Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Sun Valley Summer Symphony Inc ($134k), Friends of the Urban Forest ($100k), North Coast Land Conservancy Inc ($100k).
Does Lamb Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lamb Family Foundation Inc 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 Lamb Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Lamb Family Foundation Inc based?
Lamb Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.

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 19 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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