Pennsylvania · 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.
- $321k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $321k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $305k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $294k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $352k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 33 | $297k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $279k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $281k | 28% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $270k | 8% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends | $322,800 | 9 | n/a |
| The Main Line Chamber Foundation | $140,000 | 8 | 82% |
| Chester County Futures Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Good Works Inc | $140,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Phoenixville Free Clinic | $125,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Canine Partners for Life | $125,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Community Volunteers in Medicine | $115,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Handi-Crafters Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Camphill Village Kimberton Hills Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Gateway Housing Group | $90,000 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($400k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
About Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc
- How much does Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc give?
- Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc reported 30 grants totaling $320,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Health (19%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends ($323k), The Main Line Chamber Foundation ($140k), Chester County Futures Inc ($140k).
- Does Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc 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 Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Chester County Community Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, The Gordon Charter Foundation.
- Where is Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc based?
- Robert E Lamb Foundation Inc is based in PA.
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