· Private foundation
Lamb Weston Charitable 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
59% of Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 855 organizations, $919k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1265 grants · $300k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $184k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $436k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE IDAHO FOODBANK | $110,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST | $100,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $64,054 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $61,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $41,847 |
| NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA | $25,000 |
| TABER FOOD BANK SOCIETY | $21,294 |
| IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE | $21,250 |
| SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST | $14,450 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF IDAHO | $10,000 |
| OREGON FOOD BANK INC | $9,575 |
| SHARE OUR STRENGTH INC | $6,900 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $117k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
859 repeat relationships: 587 still active in FY2022, 272 since wound down; 373 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFIDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE5× · 2020–2024 · $538k · revenue +4%
- SHSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST5× · 2020–2024 · $507k · revenue +14%
OREGON FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $444k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SMST MARKS SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +160%
- UWUNITED WAY OF NE MINNESOTAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +30%
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +141%
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.
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.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
The Animal Refuge League of Greater Portland nurtures the connection between people and pets to advance animal welfare and improve the quality of life in our community.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Our goal is to sustainably improve animal welfare, provide veterinary care, and improve veterinary education globally. in order to achieve this goal, we work in over 10 countries, across 5 continents, supporting local people and animals,…
Disability rights washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. we work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…
Health care services for the people of western nebraska and eastern wyoming.
Shelter Animal Resource Alliance rescues, assists, and advocates for shelter animals in Lane County by developing and implementing programs designed to increase the number of animals adopted into permanent, loving homes and decrease the…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
Reduce the euthanasia rate of healthy and adoptable animals and improve the lives of companion animals by finding permanent homes for animals in need, providing support to communities who do not have access to humane organizations,…
How this is measured
1472 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1472 of the 2,000 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
- Who funds OREGON FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST LOUISIANA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WENATCHEE VALLEY UNITED SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds Seattle Children's Foundation ↗
- Who funds EASTERN OREGON MISSION ↗
- Who funds FUZZ BALL ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds TRI-CITIES CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR PETS MAGIC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COLUMBIA BASIN ↗
- Who funds BENTON FRANKLIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: 3 Rivers Community Foundation · Idaho Power Foundation Inc · United Way of Benton & Franklin Counties · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · St Luke's Health System Ltd · Claude R & Ethel B Whittenberger Foundation · Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc · Simplot Company Foundation Inc · The Julius C Jeker Foundation Inc · Idaho Community Foundation Inc · Idaho Womens Charitable Foundation · Jeker Family Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
- Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc: 30% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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