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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$1.3MEducation$808kHuman Services$612kHealth$447kHousing & Shelter$426kAnimals$245kReligion$121kYouth Development$110kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $340k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$100,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$80,000
THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL$60,000
HIGH MEADOWS SCHOOL$50,000
PAUL SHERWEN PROJECT$50,000
ANGEL FLIGHT SOARS$29,679
TREES ATLANTA$20,321
RICE UNIVERSITY$17,500
MINDS MATTER BAY AREA$16,225
LUCK'S RESCUE INC$10,000
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 (FY18–20, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE HIGHLANDS: $1k → 16%SISTER SONG INC: $3k → 13%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
OR
CA
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 15 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
24

Total granted

$2.9M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+30%

Still filing today

87%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
EducationAnimalsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • CN
    CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $272k · revenue +28%
  • TV
    THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $210k · revenue +136%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOUSE OF DAWN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $240k · revenue -74%
  • UT
    UNITED TO LEARNgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $216k · revenue +83%
  • NH
    Nicholas House Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $180k · revenue +37%
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
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
2
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
3
Laurels House

Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…

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4
Shelter From the Storm Animal Rescue Inc

Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…

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5
Furkids Inc

Animal rescue organization rescue homeless animals, provide them with the best medical care and nurturing environment while working to find them a forever home.

Animals
6
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
7
CaringWorks Inc

Caringworks' mission is to reduce homelessness and empower the marginalized by providing access to housing and services that foster dignity, self-sufficieny & well-being.

Human Services
8
Worldwide Vets Incorporated

Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…

Animals
9
Homeward Animal Shelter Inc

To care for, protect and place animals for adoption in life long homes, and to prevent cruelty to animals by educating our community in the proper and humane care of all animals.

Animals
10
Earthenable Inc

Earthenable works to solve the housing crisis in africa by revolutionizing the rural housing industry through innovative, affordable, and sustainable home-building solutions. its mission is to create healthier, safer, and climate-resilient…

International
11
The 11TH Hour Animal Rescue Inc T/a Eleventh Hour Animal Rescue

Is a volunteer-based non profit organization that saves dogs and cats from death (high kill shelters) and adopts them to loving families.

Animals
12
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trees Atlanta Inc; the most unlike its peers is Paul Sherwen Project 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

38 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. 38 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $1,000,000 · EducationCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORKUNITED TO LEARN: $215,692 · EducationUNITED TO LEARNDUKE UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYTwo Bikes: $150,000 · EducationTwo BikesHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $117,000 · EducationHOCKADAY SCHOOLHIGH MEADOWS SCHOOL INC: $90,000 · Education+2 more: $54,500 · EducationTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $210,000 · OtherTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDI…COMMUNITY ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSESINC: $176,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY ADVANCED PRA…W-Underdogs Inc: $110,000 · OtherW-Underdogs IncMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC: $36,225 · OtherANGEL FLIGHT SOARS INC: $29,679 · OtherRECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $121,000 · OtherRECONCILIATION OUTREAC…+15 more: $131,000 · Other+15 moreFinAbility: $505,000 · Crime & LegalFinAbilityWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $272,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLI…Birds Georgia Corporation: $179,980 · EnvironmentBirds Georgi…TREES ATLANTA INC: $20,321 · EnvironmentHOUSE OF DAWN INC: $240,000 · Human Services+4 more: $13,500 · Human ServicesNicholas House Inc: $180,000 · Housing & ShelterBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPAUL SHERWEN PROJECT INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,250 · Philanthropy
Education$1,787,192Other$814,404Crime & Legal$505,000Environment$472,301Human Services$253,500Housing & Shelter$180,000Philanthropy$157,250

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 budgetCHILDREN & NATURE NETWORK: $1,000,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetFinAbility: $505,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $272,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF DAWN INC: $240,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetUNITED TO LEARN: $215,692 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC: $210,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNicholas House Inc: $180,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBirds Georgia Corporation: $179,980 over 3y, 13% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSESINC: $176,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRECONCILIATION OUTREACH MINISTRIES INC: $121,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOCKADAY SCHOOL: $117,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetW-Underdogs Inc: $110,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetBLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHIGH MEADOWS SCHOOL INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BAY AREA INC: $36,225 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $34,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREES ATLANTA INC: $20,321 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharlie Bates Solar Astronomy Project Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetWILD NEST BIRD REHAB: $15,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetATLANTA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLucks Rescue Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSANDALWOOD COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLIFELINE ANIMAL PROJECT INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTIN STREET CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAVEHEART BULLIEZ RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GROCERY SPOT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHWIND IMPACT FUND INC: $2,250 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOLIDARITY SANDY SPRINGS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHILDREN'S HOME OF THE HIGHLANDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Community Foundat…The Waterfall Foundat…Assurant FoundationGeorgia Power Foundat…Charities Aid Foundat…McKesson Foundation I…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Enterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta IncGA19× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report 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.

    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 43 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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