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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.

$281k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$125k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

International$935kHealth$485kYouth Development$53kHuman Services$32kHousing & Shelter$20kCommunity Improvement$16kPublic Safety & Disaster$12kAnimals$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$1,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$5,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER$5,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$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
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%MIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES: $20k → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $2k → 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $2k → 8%PUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $2k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $6k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $1k → 8%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $1k → 8%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $1k → 8%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $1k → 8%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $600 → 8%DOWNEY FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 14%DOWNEY FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 14%DOWNEY FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 14%DOWNEY FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $3k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $2k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $2k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $1k → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $750 → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $500 → 14%GUIDE DOGS OF AMERICA: $350 → 14%LIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $550 → 14%LIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES: $500 → 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

IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 10% of Lamb Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lamb Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 37 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
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Total granted

$1.1M
$54k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

73%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BR
    BRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $87k · revenue +32%
  • IE
    ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE
    7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +122%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $44k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • WL
    WESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +18%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +46%
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +76%
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.

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Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
3
Altamed Health Services Corporation

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.

Health
4
American Gas Association

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…

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5
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
6
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
7
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
8
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
9
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
10
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
11
Asco Association

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…

Community Improvement
12
United States Naval Institute

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVA: $524,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SHALVAMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $39,000 · OtherMD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERCITY OF HOPE: $35,750 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA INC: $25,000 · Other+23 more: $71,540 · Other+23 moreJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $420,600 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH …ISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $50,500 · InternationalISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCEMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $44,250 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC+4 more: $11,650 · InternationalBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $86,500 · HealthBRAIN RESEARCH FO…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $67,750 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNIT…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,259 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER S…THE V FOUNDATION: $11,500 · HealthDAUGHTERS OF THE NILE FOUNDATION: $9,950 · HealthKEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE: $9,300 · Health+4 more: $10,950 · HealthMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $11,100 · Human ServicesOPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $10,050 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 · Human ServicesPUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSTOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 · Human Services+3 more: $3,550 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $43,000 · Youth DevelopmentRICKY MARTIN FOUNDATION CORP: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,900 · PhilanthropyTHE MARK GRACE FOUNDATION: $380 · PhilanthropyFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$695,790International$527,000Health$246,209Human Services$64,200Youth Development$43,000Philanthropy$8,280Food & Nutrition$3,000

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 budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $420,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $86,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $67,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $50,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,259 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $44,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $43,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMIRACLE HILL MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Guiding Eyes Inc DBA Guide Dogs of America: $11,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $10,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN LOS ANGELES COUNTY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 51: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAUGHTERS OF THE NILE FOUNDATION: $9,950 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE: $9,300 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSIGNATURE HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $6,350 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $6,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS INC: $6,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUERTO RICAN FAMILY INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRICKY MARTIN FOUNDATION CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSignature Healthcare Corporation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $3,450 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $2,900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 100 CLUB INC: $1,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $1,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD AID: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA MISSION POR VIDA: $650 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENDON COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWILDLIFE WAYSTATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARK GRACE FOUNDATION: $380 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLEELA FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARBOR DAY FOUNDATION: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTADA THEATRE AND DANCE ALLIANCE INC: $240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $150 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.

Enterprise Holdings F…AbbVie FoundationEdward Jones Foundati…Network for GoodThe Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…
Enterprise Holdings FoundationMO12.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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.
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 59 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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