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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN GLEANERS | $21,000 |
| OUTGROWING HUNGER | $20,000 |
| NORTHWEST HARVEST | $19,250 |
| WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES | $18,000 |
| ADELANTE MUJERES | $16,500 |
| THE LANDS COUNCIL | $16,000 |
| COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL | $16,000 |
| CONFLUENCES | $15,000 |
| JOSEPHY CENTER FOR ARTS & CULTURE | $15,000 |
| FAMILY TREE RELIEF NURSERY | $15,000 |
| FARMERS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES | $15,000 |
| OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES | $15,000 |
| THE DOUGY CENTER | $15,000 |
| FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Lamb Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in OR; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 35 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k 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
- TTREEHOUSE3× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +53%
- HSHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE3× · 2020–2023 · $46k · revenue +27%
- BRBaker Relief Nursery Inc2× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +115%
Funded once
United Way of the Columbia-Willametteone grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue +16%- PNPHILANTHROPY NORTHWESTone grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue -33%
Friends of the Columbia Gorgegraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +130%
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.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena
To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.
Portland Harbor Community Coalition (PHCC) organizes frontline groups and individuals to heal the water, land, and air in and around the Wa'lmaomt (Willamette River) federal Superfund area, polluted from over a century of heavy industrial…
Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.
To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.
The oregon center for public policy's mission is to achieve economic justice for all oregonians through research, analysis, and advocacy. ocpp works to change policies that foster economic security and stability for all oregonians. we do…
Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.
To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child
Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center and the most unlike its peers is Burns Paiute Tribe Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
149 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. 149 of the 161 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 TREEHOUSE ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE ↗
- Who funds Baker Relief Nursery Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds United Way of the Columbia-Willamette ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Columbia Gorge ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds URBAN GLEANERS ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds NEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC ↗
- Who funds CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds OASIS ADVOCACY AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEAR ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDCOAST WATERSHEDS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ADELANTE MUJERES ↗
- Who funds THE DOUGY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEMONADE INC ↗
- Who funds Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG ↗
- Who funds FARMERS ENDING HUNGER ↗
- Who funds THE SAFE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OLALLA CENTER ↗
- Who funds TIDES OF CHANGE FKA TILLAMOOK CO WOMEN'S RESOURCE C ↗
- Who funds Outgrowing Hunger ↗
- Who funds Team Read ↗
- Who funds COASTAL FAMILIES RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM ↗
- Who funds PIONEER RELIEF NURSERY PIONEER RELIEF NURSERY ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE GOODTIMES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds SELWAY-BITTERROOT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER ↗
- Who funds MARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Josephy Center for Arts and Culture ↗
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: The Oregon Community Foundation · The Autzen Foundation · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Juan Young Trust · OCF Joseph E Weston Public Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation · Meyer Memorial Trust · The Ford Family Foundation · Braemar Charitable Trust · The Reser Family Foundation · The Robert D and Marcia H Randall Charitable Trust
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 Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Deschutes River Conservancy — 100% of income from government
- North Fork John Day Watershed Council — 100% of income from government
- Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
- Pioneer Relief Nursery Pioneer Relief Nursery — 87% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Community Action — 85% of income from government
- Midcoast Watersheds Council — 76% of income from government
- Willamette Partnership — 76% of income from government
- J Bar J Youth Services Inc — 71% of income from government
- Family Development Center — 71% of income from government
- Treasure Valley Children's Relief Nurser — 70% of income from government
- Family Building Blocks Inc — 68% of income from government
- Mountainstar Family Relief Nursery — 60% of income from government
- Community Works Inc — 59% of income from government
- Family Tree Relief Nursery — 57% of income from government
- The Safe Project — 54% of income from government
- Baker Relief Nursery Inc — 50% of income from government
- Saving Grace — 48% of income from government
- Willamette Riverkeeper — 42% of income from government
- Crag Rats — 41% of income from government
- Building Healthy Families — 41% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Old Mill Center for Children and Families Inc — 38% of income from government
- Clackamas River Basin Council Inc — 36% of income from government
- Tides of Change Fka Tillamook Co Women's Resource C — 31% of income from government
- Adelante Mujeres — 31% of income from government
- Antfarm Inc — 29% of income from government
- Holla — 29% of income from government
- Heart of Oregon Corps Inc — 28% of income from government
- Safety Compass — 25% of income from government
- United Way of the Columbia-Willamette — 25% of income from government
- Liberty House — 23% of income from government
- Native American Youth and Family Center — 23% of income from government
- Johnson Creek Watershed Council — 23% of income from government
- Ophelia's Place — 22% of income from government
- FosterClub Inc — 21% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Avenues for Youth Inc — 20% of income from government
- Homeplate Youth Services — 17% of income from government
- Human Solutions Inc Dba Our Just Future — 17% of income from government
- Coastal Families Relief Nursery — 16% of income from government
- Oregon Wildlife Heritage Foundation — 16% of income from government
- Farmers Conservation Alliance — 15% of income from government
- Project Lemonade Inc — 15% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Bradley Angle — 10% of income from government
- Outgrowing Hunger — 9% of income from government
- Lifeworks Nw — 8% of income from government
- Oregon East Symphony — 8% of income from government
- Gather Make Shelter — 7% of income from government
- Community Development Corporation of Oregon — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of the Columbia Willamette Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Transitional School — 7% of income from government
- Josephy Center for Arts and Culture — 7% of income from government
- The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc — 6% of income from government
- Growing Gardens — 6% of income from government
- Marion-Polk Food Share Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Color Outside the Lines — 3% of income from government
- Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council dba Art Center East — 3% of income from government
- Smart Reading — 3% of income from government
- Neskowin Coast Foundation — 2% of income from government
- The Oregon Community Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
- Chess for Success — 2% of income from government
- The Dougy Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Golden Road Arts — 1% of income from government
- Casa of Marion County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pear — 1% of income from government
- Portland Baroque Orchestra — 1% of income from government
- Outside the Frame — 1% of income from government
- Community Connection of Ne Oregon Inc — 1% of income from government
- Caldera — 1% of income from government
- Metropolitan Youth Symphony — 1% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Portland Youth Philharmonic Association — 0% of income from government
- Oswego Heritage Council Inc — 0% of income from government
- In a Landscape — 0% of income from government
- Mid-Valley Literacy Center — 0% of income from government
- All Classical Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Indian Child Welfare Association — 0% of income from government
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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