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Lytton-Kambara Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2024.

Environment$6.3MEducation$376kHealth$22kHuman Services$13kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$6kYouth Development$4kCivil Rights$250Other$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.4M
$2,500
Median grant
9
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PITZER COLLEGE$25,000
BRYN MAWR 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
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY INC$2,500
FAITHFUL HEARTS EQUINE LEARNING$2,500
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$2,000
KHAN ACADEMY INC$1,000
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY INC: $3k → 16%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25k → 10%PITZER COLLEGE: $25k → 14%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $300k → 17%AFRIKANA CORPORATION: $13k → 28%FAITHFUL HEARTS EQUINE LEARNING: $3k → 8%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $250k → 7%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $100k → 7%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25k → 10%PITZER COLLEGE: $15k → 14%MOHONK PRESERVE INC: $3k → 16%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $125k → 7%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $25k → 7%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $20k → 7%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $20k → 7%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $25k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $20k → 17%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $20k → 7%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $5k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $10k → 17%BOWDOIN COLLEGE: $3k → 7%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $1.2M → 17%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $1.0M → 17%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $950k → 17%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $425k → 17%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $300k → 17%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $100k → 17%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $7k → 17%MOHONK PRESERVE INC: $10k → 16%MOHONK PRESERVE INC: $5k → 16%MOHONK PRESERVE INC: $3k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE SHAWANGUNKS INC: $4k → 16%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $13k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $10k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $10k → 17%ETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $10k → 17%HADASSAH THE WOMENS ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERIC: $10k → 17%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $625k → 17%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $350k → 17%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $310k → 17%TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $100k → 17%TREVOR DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%TREVOR DAY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%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

ME
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
CO
VA
DC
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Lytton-Kambara Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Lytton-Kambara Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.3M · 24 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
7

Total granted

$6.3M
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+58%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +76% · 47% of their budget
  • NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $542k · revenue +37%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE SHAWANGUNKS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue -49%
  • TM
    THE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITALgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +58%
  • GO
    GIRLS ON THE RUN NYC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +81%
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
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
2
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
Governors Island Corporation

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…

Animals
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
University of New Haven

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…

Education
7
Ie New York College

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Education
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
10
The Adirondack Council Inc

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…

Environment
11
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

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…

Recreation & Sports
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Space Institute Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 36 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $3,982,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INCNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $542,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC+4 more: $31,300 · EnvironmentTRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $1,388,500 · OtherTRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $395,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY+9 more: $16,500 · OtherBowdoin College: $171,000 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $105,500 · EducationETHICAL CULTURE FIELDSTON SCHOOL: $42,500 · EducationPitzer College: $40,000 · Education+5 more: $16,750 · EducationAFRIKANA CORPORATION: $12,500 · Community ImprovementCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,200 · Recreation & SportsNew York-New Jersey Trail Conference Inc: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsHUDSON VALLEY RAIL TRAIL ASSOCIATIONINC: $2,220 · Recreation & SportsParks & Trails New York Inc: $1,700 · Recreation & SportsGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $500 · Recreation & SportsNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $8,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $1,000 · HealthNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $3,300 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INC: $2,500 · Arts & Culture
Environment$4,555,300Other$1,800,000Education$375,750Community Improvement$12,500Recreation & Sports$10,620Health$9,000Arts & Culture$5,800

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $395,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

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 Foun…Ibm International Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Verizon FoundationJpmorgan Chase Founda…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lytton-Kambara Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lytton-Kambara Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%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
    11report 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.

    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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