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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.

$320k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Human Services$544kEnvironment$300kArts & Culture$238kYouth Development$217kHousing & Shelter$194kFood & Nutrition$172kEducation$110kPhilanthropy$93kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $284k
$12,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE DOUGY CENTER$15,000
CONFLUENCES$15,000
BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES$15,000
OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES$15,000
JOSEPHY CENTER FOR ARTS & CULTURE$15,000
FARMERS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE$15,000
FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS$15,000
J BAR J YOUTH SERVICES$15,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE WILD FUND INC: $1k → 7%SAVING GRACE: $2k → 10%PIONEER RELIEF NURSERY: $17k → 12%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $20k → 14%BURNS PAIUTE TRIBE FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%MCKENZIE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $15k → 15%BAKER RELIEF NURSERY: $25k → 16%FAMILY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $12k → 17%OLD MILL CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES: $15k → 18%TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $15k → 20%WILD GIFT: $1k → 7%FAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS: $15k → 14%COMMUNITY CONNECTION OF NE OREGON INC: $4k → 15%BAKER RELIEF NURSERY: $20k → 16%THE SAFE PROJECT: $20k → 17%SAFETY COMPASS: $10k → 14%HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 8%FARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $20k → 14%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 9%BLOOMIN' BOUTIQUE: $2k → 8%PIONEER RELIEF NURSERY: $2k → 12%BUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES: $15k → 12%ADELANTE MUJERES: $17k → 8%FAMILY ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%ADELANTE MUJERES: $10k → 8%BLOOMIN' BOUTIQUE: $1k → 8%MOUNTAIN STAR FAMILY RELIEF NURSERY: $10k → 10%LIBERTY HOUSE: $2k → 14%LIBERTY HOUSE: $1k → 14%LUTHERAN COMMUNITY SERVICES NORTHWEST: $15k → 9%LIBERTY HOUSE: $1k → 14%SNOWCAP COMMUNITY CHARITIES: $2k → 12%YOUTHCARE: $15k → 9%NATIONAL INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $1k → 12%GROWING GARDENS: $100 → 12%BRADLEY ANGLE: $15k → 12%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 13% of Lamb Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in OR; by stated purpose, 81%.

Lamb Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$862k · 48 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
92

Total granted

$862k
$950k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+39%

Still filing today

83%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $199k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • T
    TREEHOUSE
    3× · 2020–2024 · $54k · revenue +53%
  • HS
    HUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $46k · revenue +27%
  • BR
    Baker Relief Nursery Inc
    2× · 2021–2024 · $45k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • PN
    PHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST
    one grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue -33%
  • United Way of the Columbia-Willamette
    one grant, 2019 · $43k · revenue +16%
  • Friends of the Columbia Gorgegraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +130%
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
Oregon Justice Network

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…

Human Services
2
Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment
3
Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council

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…

Environment
4
Our Oregon

Promote economic and social fairness by working in coalition open a broad range of issues and activities in the public arena

Human Services
5
Priority Oregon

To support public policies that will help oregon's economy and create new family supporting jobs in oregon.

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6
Portland Harbor Community Coalition

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…

Environment
7
Every Child Central Oregon

Mobilizing the community to uplift children and families impacted by foster care in Oregon.

Human Services
8
Oregon Child Abuse Solutions

To ensure children and youth in oregon have access to high quality, comprehensive services and resources to address child abuse.

Crime & Legal
9
Oregon Center for Public Policy

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…

Employment
10
Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild

Oregon Wild works to protect and restore Oregon's wildlands, wildlife and waters as an enduring legacy for future generations.

Environment
11
Oregon Casa Network

To lead oregon's casa programs to provide a strong voice for every abused and neglected child

Human Services
12
New Progressive Network

Next up amplifies the voice of diverse youth to achieve a more just oregon

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native American Youth and Family Center; 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.
05the grantee network

149 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. 149 of the 161 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
145/149
Grantees still filing
100/149
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Baker Relief Nursery Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesBaker Relief Nursery IncFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS IN…HOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $28,000 · Human ServicesHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICESADELANTE MUJERES: $26,500 · Human ServicesADELANTE MUJERESPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesTHE SAFE PROJECT: $20,000 · Human ServicesFARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $20,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER RELIEF NURSERY PIONEER RELIEF NURSERY: $19,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $18,000 · Human Services+24 more: $214,900 · Human Services+24 morePHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $43,000 · OtherFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $40,000 · OtherOREGON COAST CHILDREN'S THEATRE & YOUTH ARTS CENTER: $35,000 · OtherNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $35,000 · OtherOASIS ADVOCACY AND SHELTER INC: $30,000 · OtherPEAR: $30,000 · OtherUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $43,000 · OtherHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE: $46,100 · OtherHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE+59 more: $513,050 · Other+59 moreDESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY: $36,000 · EnvironmentDESCHUTES R…CASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $32,000 · EnvironmentCASCADE FOR…MIDCOAST WATERSHEDS COUNCIL: $30,000 · EnvironmentMIDCOAST WA…Duwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $21,000 · EnvironmentDuwamish Ri…SELWAY-BITTERROOT FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · EnvironmentSELWAY-BITT…WILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $17,000 · EnvironmentWILLAMETTE …THE LANDS COUNCIL: $16,000 · EnvironmentTHE LANDS C…NORTH FORK JOHN DAY WATERSHED COUNCIL: $15,000 · EnvironmentNORTH FORK …Artula Institute for Art and Environmental Ed: $12,000 · EnvironmentArtula Inst…+5 more: $15,100 · Environment+5 moreWALLOWA RESOURCES INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWALLOWA R…Josephy Center for Arts and Culture: $16,000 · Arts & CultureJosephy C…OUTSIDE THE FRAME: $15,000 · Arts & CultureOUTSIDE T…EASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST: $15,000 · Arts & CultureEASTERN O…OREGON EAST SYMPHONY: $15,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON EA…CONFLUENCES INC CONFLUENCE PROJECT: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCONFLUENC…Sanctuary Art Center: $12,000 · Arts & CultureSanctuary…The Arts Council of Pendleton Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts …Golden Road Arts: $10,000 · Arts & CultureGolden Ro…Wallowa Band Nez Perce Trail Interpretive Center: $10,000 · Arts & CultureWallowa B…Portland Youth Philharmonic Association: $10,000 · Arts & CulturePortland …NORTHWEST CHILDREN'S THEATER AND SCHOOL INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $11,440 · Arts & Culture+9 moreTREEHOUSE: $54,000 · Youth DevelopmentNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentFosterClub Inc: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentColor Outside The Lines: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPHELIA'S PLACE: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF EXPLORER POST 58: $14,400 · Youth DevelopmentOREGON BRAVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALDERA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $43,000 · EducationTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $35,000 · EducationTeam Read: $20,000 · EducationMUSIC IS INSTRUMENTAL: $10,000 · Education+5 more: $8,500 · EducationURBAN GLEANERS: $35,100 · Food & NutritionOutgrowing Hunger: $20,000 · Food & NutritionMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $16,500 · Food & NutritionFARMERS CONSERVATION ALLIANCE: $15,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD SHARE OF LINCOLN COUNTY: $4,250 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $8,100 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$450,400Other$815,150Environment$211,600Arts & Culture$175,440Youth Development$148,900Education$116,500Food & Nutrition$98,950

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTREEHOUSE: $54,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN SOLUTIONS INC DBA OUR JUST FUTURE: $46,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBaker Relief Nursery Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY NORTHWEST: $43,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL SCHOOL: $43,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of the Columbia-Willamette: $43,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Columbia Gorge: $40,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY: $36,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN GLEANERS: $35,100 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW AVENUES FOR YOUTH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FAMILY NURTURING CENTER ROGUE VALLEY CHILDREN'S RELIEF NURSERY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY BUILDING BLOCKS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCASCADE FOREST CONSERVANCY: $32,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMIDCOAST WATERSHEDS COUNCIL: $30,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetWALLOWA RESOURCES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOASIS ADVOCACY AND SHELTER INC: $30,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetPEAR: $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOMEPLATE YOUTH SERVICES: $28,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetADELANTE MUJERES: $26,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DOUGY CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT LEMONADE INC: $24,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDuwamish River Cleanup Coalition - TAG: $21,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES OF CHANGE FKA TILLAMOOK CO WOMEN'S RESOURCE C: $20,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE SAFE PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFARMERS ENDING HUNGER: $20,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCOASTAL FAMILIES RELIEF NURSERY: $20,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetOLALLA CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTeam Read: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $19,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER RELIEF NURSERY PIONEER RELIEF NURSERY: $19,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetTHE GOODTIMES PROJECT: $18,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetFARESTART: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSELWAY-BITTERROOT FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWILLAMETTE RIVERKEEPER: $17,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMARION-POLK FOOD SHARE INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJosephy Center for Arts and Culture: $16,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN YOUTH AND FAMILY CENTER: $15,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUTSIDE THE FRAME: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEASTERN OREGON REGIONAL ARTS COUNCIL dba ART CENTER EAST: $15,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetFosterClub Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY TREE RELIEF NURSERY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTHCARE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMcKenzie Community Development Corporation: $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBUILDING HEALTHY FAMILIES: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH FORK JOHN DAY WATERSHED COUNCIL: $15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OREGON: $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSTEPHEN'S PLACE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLutheran Community Services Northwest: $15,000 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.

The Oregon Community …The Autzen FoundationThe Collins FoundationMarie Lamfrom Charita…Juan Young TrustOCF Joseph E Weston P…The Roundhouse Founda…Meyer Memorial TrustThe Ford Family Found…Braemar Charitable Tr…The Reser Family Foun…The Robert D and Marc…
The Oregon Community FoundationOR110.7× affinity107 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 · 210%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
15rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lamb Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lamb Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 161 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home