New Jersey · Private foundation
Lamb Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $434k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Lamb Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $120k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $434k | 40% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $1.3M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $766k | 79% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $302k | 78% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $633k | 40% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $297k | 86% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $170k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $171k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children & Nature Network | $1,000,000 | 2 | 15% |
| FinAbility | $505,000 | 2 | 55% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $272,000 | 5 | 0% |
| House of Dawn Inc | $240,000 | 1 | 24% |
| United to Learn | $215,692 | 1 | 7% |
| The Volunteers in Medicine Clinic | $210,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Nicholas House Inc | $180,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Birds Georgia Corporation | $179,980 | 3 | 13% |
| Community Advanced Practice Nursesinc | $176,500 | 3 | 12% |
| Duke University | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($52k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lamb Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · The Waterfall Foundation Inc · Assurant Foundation · Georgia Power Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Lamb Foundation
- How much does Lamb Foundation give?
- Lamb Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $433,725 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lamb Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Education (19%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Lamb Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Children & Nature Network ($1.0M), FinAbility ($505k), World Wildlife Fund Inc ($272k).
- Does Lamb Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lamb Foundation 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 Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc, The Waterfall Foundation Inc, Assurant Foundation.
- Where is Lamb Foundation based?
- Lamb Foundation is based in NJ.
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