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Lytton-Kambara 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
5%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,200,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 26
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$71M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Lytton-Kambara Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving22$2.2M18%
FY202319$1.5M5%
FY202219$1.5M0%
FY202121$688k0%
FY202026$338k27%
FY201921$133k67%
FY20187$16k71%
FY20174$8kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$6.3MEducation$376kHealth$22kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$6kYouth Development$4kCivil Rights$250Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Open Space Institute Inc$3,982,000747%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$542,00070%
Bowdoin College$171,00080%
Bryn Mawr College$105,50060%
Ethical Culture Fieldston School$42,50040%
Pitzer College$40,00020%
Mohonk Preserve Inc$24,00060%
Afrikana Corporation$12,50017%
Northwell Health Foundation$8,00060%
Trevor Day School$6,40040%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Lytton-Kambara Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpen Space Institute Inc: $3,982,000 over 7y, 47% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $542,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBowdoin College: $171,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBryn Mawr College: $105,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEthical Culture Fieldston School: $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMohonk Preserve Inc: $24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAfrikana Corporation: $12,500 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNorthwell Health Foundation: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Day School: $6,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKhan Academy Inc: $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $3,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCentral Park Conservancy Inc: $3,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRiverkeeper Inc: $2,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWikimedia Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFaithfulhearts Equine Learning Center: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Valley Rail Trail Associationinc: $2,220 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetParks & Trails New York Inc: $1,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAgnes Scott College: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mount Sinai Hospital: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Friends of the Gloversville Public Library Inc: $900 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetGardiner Library Board of Trustees: $850 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run NYC Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Side Montessori School: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShanti Bhavan Children's Project Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

American Express FoundationNY18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Express Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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.

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About Lytton-Kambara Foundation

How much does Lytton-Kambara Foundation give?
Lytton-Kambara Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $2,614,950 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Lytton-Kambara Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (94%), Education (6%), Health (0%).
Who are Lytton-Kambara Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Open Space Institute Inc ($4.0M), Natural Resources Defense Council Inc ($542k), Bowdoin College ($171k).
Does Lytton-Kambara Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lytton-Kambara Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lytton-Kambara Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Express Foundation, Ibm International Foundation, The Pfizer Foundation Inc.
Where is Lytton-Kambara Foundation based?
Lytton-Kambara Foundation is based in DE.

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 36 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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