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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.

$125k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
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 2025.

Health$608kAnimals$250kRecreation & Sports$161kEducation$26kYouth Development$11kFood & Nutrition$5kCommunity Improvement$100
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $100
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$25,237
Median grant
3
States reached
$983k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Homeward Animal Shelter$100,000
Crossroads Inc$25,237
Greater Colorado Council - BSA$100
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Crossroads Pay it Forward Propgram: $143k → 11%National Multiple Sclerosis Society: $250 → 8%University of Minnesota: $3k → 11%KIFIA Org: $25k → 7%National Eating Disorders Associati: $1k → 5%Baylor University: $20k → 16%World Class Accessability Foundatio: $50k → 8%First Call: $10k → 15%Greater Colorado Council - BSA: $100 → 8%Homeward Animal Shelter: $150k → 12%Crossroads Pay it Forward Propgram: $136k → 11%University of Minnesota: $3k → 11%World Class Accessability Foundatio: $50k → 8%First Call: $10k → 15%Homeward Animal Shelter: $100k → 12%Crossroads Pay it Forward Propgram: $74k → 11%First Call: $5k → 15%Friends of the Children: $11k → 12%Crossroads Pay it Forward Propgram: $41k → 11%First Call: $5k → 15%Crossroads Inc: $25k → 11%First Call: $3k → 15%Crossroads Inc: $11k → 11%First Call: $2k → 15%Maricopa Health Foundtion: $2k → 11%Barrow Neurological Foundation: $115k → 11%Desert Mountain Boosters Inc POM: $500 → 11%Harvest Compassion Center: $5k → 11%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

ND
MN
MI
NY
MA
CO
MO
AZ
TX
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$881k · 7 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$881k
$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+38%

Still filing today

57%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
HealthEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • CP
    Crossroads Pay it Forward Propgram
    4× · 2017–2020 · $394k
  • HA
    HOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $250k · revenue -6%
  • WC
    World Class Accessability Foundatio
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100k

Funded once

  • BN
    BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $115k · revenue +9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • BAYLOR UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +53%
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
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
2
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
3
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
4
American Academy of Neurology

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

Community Improvement
5
Homeward Bound Foundation

To support the charitable purposes of homeward bound, inc.

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6
North Range Behavioral Health

North range behavioral health is dedicated to providing professional, comprehensive mental health and substance use disorder services.

Health
7
Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, banner health foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient…

Health
8
Allosource

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

Health
9
Wayside House Inc

Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.

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10
National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit
11
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…

Science & Tech
12
Complex Disorders Alliance Inc

To accelerate scientific discoveries that will lead to breakthrough diagnostics, therapeutics and cures for people living with neuroimmune axis disorders.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Valleywise Health Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Baylor University. 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

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Crossroads Pay it Forward Propgram: $394,278 · OtherCrossroads Pay it Forward PropgramWorld Class Accessability Foundatio: $100,000 · OtherWorld Class Accessability FoundatioFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY: $34,500 · OtherFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERYIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · Other+6 more: $21,850 · OtherHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $250,000 · AnimalsHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER IN…BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $115,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGI…CROSSROADS INC: $35,959 · HealthCROSSROADS INC+1 more: $2,000 · HealthWorld Class Accessibility Foundation: $61,000 · Recreation & SportsBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Other$575,628Animals$250,000Health$152,959Recreation & Sports$61,000Education$20,500

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 budgetHOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $250,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $115,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Class Accessibility Foundation: $61,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetCROSSROADS INC: $35,959 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY: $34,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBAYLOR UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDESERT MOUNTAIN BOOSTERS INC: $500 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.

  • Who funds HOMEWARD ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds World Class Accessibility Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CALL ALCOHOLDRUG PREVENTION RECOVERY ↗
  • Who funds BAYLOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VALLEYWISE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DESERT MOUNTAIN BOOSTERS INC ↗

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.

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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 · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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 17 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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