· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC | $1,200,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $625,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC | $300,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $250,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $125,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| PITZER COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| AFRIKANA CORPORATION | $12,500 |
| MOHONK PRESERVE INC | $10,000 |
| HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERIC | $10,000 |
| FAITHFUL HEARTS EQUINE LEARNING | $2,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY INC | $2,500 |
| NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HUDSON VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Lytton-Kambara Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- OSOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +76% · 47% of their budget
NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $542k · revenue +37%- BCBowdoin College8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SHAWANGUNKS INCone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -49%
- TMTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +58%
- GLGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadershipone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue -25%
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
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…
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Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Faithfulhearts Equine Learning Center. 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 42 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 0% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 36 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 OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Pitzer College ↗
- Who funds MOHONK PRESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds AFRIKANA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trevor Day School ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SHAWANGUNKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds New York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHFULHEARTS EQUINE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds Parks & Trails New York Inc ↗
- Who funds Agnes Scott College ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE GLOVERSVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Gardiner Library Board of Trustees ↗
- Who funds Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN NYC INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHANTI BHAVAN CHILDREN'S PROJECT 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: 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
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 Lytton-Kambara 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.
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.