· Private foundation
Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DELAWARE VALLEY FRIENDS SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| THE MAIN LINE CHAMBER FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUC | $30,000 |
| DARDEN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GOOD WORKS INC | $20,000 |
| PHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC | $15,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $15,000 |
| ORION COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS | $10,000 |
| CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| BAKER INDUSTRIES | $10,000 |
| HANDI-CRAFTERS INC | $10,000 |
| CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTO | $10,000 |
| CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $437k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GWGOOD WORKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +56%
- CCCHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +12%
- PFPHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- KAKENNETT AREA SENIOR CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -18%
- FPFRIENDS PUBLISHING CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +58%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $250
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.
Philadelphia works, inc. develops and manages smart workforce solutions that respond to business needs and increases economic opportunity for all philadelphia residents.
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
Psrc is the go-to resource where aging adults and their families find support, guidance, educational and social programs to help navigate life transitions and continue to be active, healty and engaged in the community.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The corporation's mission includes, but is not limited to, combatingcommunity deterioration within chinatown; preserving and developingthe chinatown community; leading the community in neighborhoodplanning, considering land use, and…
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
The pennsylvania charitable healthcare coalition advances the healthcare safety net by empowering organizations that increase access to care for the uninsured and underinsured.
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The mission of pennfuture is to lead the transition to a clean energy economy in pennsylvania and beyond. pennfuture is protecting our air, water and land, and empowering citizens to build sustainable communities for future generations.
The mission of the baptist home of philadelphia is dedicated to providing quality continuing care living facilities and support services in a christian environment respecting the dignity and sanctity of all individuals regardless of their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Whyy Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 49 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 MAIN LINE CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FUTURES INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds PHOENIXVILLE FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds HANDI-CRAFTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPHILL VILLAGE KIMBERTON HILLS INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY HOUSING GROUP ↗
- Who funds MAIN LINE SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ORION COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER INDUSTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds LCH Health and Community Services ↗
- Who funds DAEMION COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FRANCISVALE HOME FOR SMALLER ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds CHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE ACCESS ↗
- Who funds Main Line Art Center ↗
- Who funds PAOLI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SURREY SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds Conservative Partnership Institute ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Wings for Success Inc ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
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: Chester County Community Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Connelly Foundation · The Smith Foundation Aka the Hoxie Harrison Smith Foundation · United Way of Chester County Inc · Hankin Foundation · First Cornerstone Foundation Inc-Ima · The Dansko Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · John and Carole Bartholdson Foundation · The Emergency Aid of Pennsylvania Foundation 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 Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc 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.