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Lamb Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
$23,580
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sun Valley Music Festival$25,745
Sun Valley Music Festival$25,180
Columbia River Maritime Museum$25,019
College of the Desert$23,580
Schwab Charitable-J R Lamb Fund$5,000
College of the Desert$2,815
Pathfinder Ranch$2,500
Big Horn Institute$500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%Sun Valley Music Festival: $58k → 7%Neighbors Abroad: $5k → 8%Turn 2 U The Last Mile: $50k → 10%College of the Desert: $24k → 11%Portland Art Museum: $26k → 12%Columbia River Maritime Museum: $32k → 13%University of Oregon Foundation: $272 → 15%The Phoenix: $26k → 12%Sun Valley Music Festival: $26k → 7%Stanford University: $154k → 8%Friends of the Urban Forest: $50k → 10%College of the Desert: $10k → 11%Portland Art Museum: $3k → 12%Columbia River Maritime Museum: $25k → 13%Sun Valley Music Festival: $25k → 7%Stanford University: $29k → 8%Friends of the Urban Forest: $50k → 10%College of the Desert: $3k → 11%Columbia River Maritime Museum: $18k → 13%Sun Valley Music Festival: $25k → 7%Stanford University: $23k → 8%Palm Springs Pathfinders: $3k → 11%North Coast Land Conservancy: $49k → 13%Stanford University: $11k → 8%McCallumTheatre: $1k → 11%North Coast Land Conservancy: $41k → 13%Stanford University: $2k → 8%Palm Springs Pathfinders: $1k → 11%North Coast Land Conservation: $10k → 13%Palm Springs Animal Shelter: $4k → 11%College of the Desert: $700 → 11%Palm Springs Pathfinders: $1k → 11%Boys Girls Club of Palm Springs: $1k → 11%Pathfinder Ranch: $3k → 11%Pathfinder Ranch: $1k → 11%Pathfinder Ranch: $1k → 11%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$507k · 10 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
8

Total granted

$507k
$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+9%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SV
    SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $134k · revenue +14%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST
    2× · 2021–2022 · $100k · revenue +27%
  • NC
    North Coast Land Conservancy Inc
    3× · 2020–2022 · $100k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • T2
    Turn 2 U The Last Mile
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • PM
    PHOENIX MULTISPORT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $26k · revenue +47%
  • NA
    Neighbors Abroad
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
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
Los Padres Forestwatch Inc

Los padres forestwatch protects the los padres national forest and the carrizo plain national monument through education, advocacy, and when necessary, legal action for the benefit of our communities, climate and future generations.

Environment
2
Paso Pacifico

We apply principles of ecology to ensure that our innovative programs integrate advances in scientific and economic understanding to ensure the viability of coastal forests and the livelihoods of the people who live in them.

Animals
3
California Surf Museum

The California Surf Museum serves as an international repository and resource center on the lifestyle sport of surfing through capturing,preserving and chronicling its art, culture and heritage for the education and enjoyment of current…

Arts & Culture
4
Pacific Biodiversity Institute

Pacific Biodiversity Institute combines innovative scientific research, education and technical support to inform, enhance and inspire conservation. Our goal is a rich and enduring biological heritage.

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5
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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6
Pacific Institute for Studies in Development Environment & Security

The pacific institute creates and advances solutions to the worlds most pressing water challenges.

International
7
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
8
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
9
The Pacific Seabird Group

The principal goals of pacific seabird group are (1) to increase the quality and quantity of seabird research through facilitating exchange of information and (2) to identify and assess the importance of threats to seabird populations and…

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10
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…

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11
The Institute for Bird Populations

The institute for bird populations enables science-based conservation of species and habitats by studying the abundance, demography, and ecology of birds and other wildlife.

Animals
12
Museum Foundation of Pacific Grove Inc

The Museum inspires wonder, discovery, and stewardship of our natural world. The Museum is a catalyst for conservation and a valued learning resource, facilitating active scientific and historical inquiry for all ages.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Oregon Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Bighorn Institute. 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

14 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. 14 of the 19 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
12/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INC: $134,051 · Arts & CultureSUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY INCCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUM: $75,708 · Arts & CultureCOLUMBIA RIVER MARITIME MUSEUMPORTLAND ART MUSEUM: $29,182 · Arts & CulturePORTLAND ART MUSEUM+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $218,037 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE L…+1 more: $272 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FOREST: $100,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE URBAN FORESTNorth Coast Land Conservancy Inc: $99,609 · EnvironmentNorth Coast Land Conservanc…Turn 2 U The Last Mile: $50,000 · OtherTurn 2 U The Las…College of the Desert: $37,096 · OtherCollege of the D…Schwab Charitable-J R Lamb Fund: $20,696 · OtherSchwab Charitabl…Palm Springs Animal Shelter: $4,250 · OtherPathfinder Ranch Inc: $4,500 · Other+3 more: $3,750 · OtherPHOENIX MULTISPORT INC: $25,590 · HealthNeighbors Abroad: $5,000 · InternationalPALM SPRINGS PATHFINDERS INC: $4,500 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$239,941Education$218,309Environment$199,609Other$120,292Health$25,590International$5,000Philanthropy$4,500

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $218,037 over 3y, 0.0% of 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
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.

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

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • North Coast Land Conservancy Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Columbia River Maritime Museum: 3% of income from government
  • Portland Art Museum: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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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