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Lamb Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH NATIONAL FUND | $125,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA | $75,000 |
| MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES | $20,000 |
| STAND WITH US | $9,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $9,000 |
| LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $3,500 |
| THE V FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,750 |
| KEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE | $1,600 |
| ROGER LOFF MEMORIAL GBM RESEARCH FUND | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 10% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- BRBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +32%
- IEISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +122%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- WLWESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +18%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +76%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +46%
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Mark Grace 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 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 59 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 JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE V FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds International Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BBQ RELIEF ↗
- Who funds WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51 ↗
- Who funds DAUGHTERS OF THE NILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SIGNATURE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Juntos y Unidos por Puerto Rico Inc ↗
- Who funds RICKY MARTIN FOUNDATION CORP ↗
- Who funds STOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Signature Healthcare Corporation ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
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: Enterprise Holdings Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Edward Jones Foundation · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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