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Lambert Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $516k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $637k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU LANGONE HEALTH | $204,000 |
| PROJECT KESHER | $93,000 |
| JCC MANHATTAN | $70,000 |
| JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC | $60,000 |
| WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $60,000 |
| GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS | $40,000 |
| BOTTOMLESS CLOSET | $39,500 |
| JEWISH CREATIVITY INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| THE TOWN SCHOOL | $27,097 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $26,500 |
| THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESERARCH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 9 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
- WMWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART5× · 2020–2024 · $178k · revenue +69%
- CFCENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION3× · 2020–2023 · $174k · revenue +27%
- ATAVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $144k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FFACESone grant, 2020 · $142k
Northwestern Universitygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +33%- TCTHE CAHN FELLOWS PROGRAMSone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +10%
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.
Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
See schedule othe organization is a not-for-profit, public charity established in 1911 to provide for the quality and continuity of jewish life in western new york and around the world through private philanthropy. the foundation seeks,…
The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.
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.
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan and the most unlike its peers is Aspen Homeless Shelter. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 139 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 THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HEARING AND COMMUNICATION ↗
- Who funds AVODAH THE JEWISH SERVICE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds JCC GLOBAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOWN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL POLICY FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROTHERHOOD SISTER SOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ISRAEL STORY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds KBY Congregations Together Inc ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ORION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ARTSCONNECTION INC ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Mutual of America Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Metrowest NJ · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · The Sirovich Family Charitable Fdn · The Gottesman Fund
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 Lambert Family 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.
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Orion Society Inc — 2% 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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