· Private foundation
The Darlene & Harry Lambert 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $147k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK | $36,400 |
| THE BRITISH HOME IN CALIFORNIA LTD | $36,000 |
| PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY | $16,200 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $16,200 |
| HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA | $10,800 |
| SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY DAWG | $10,800 |
| BUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTER | $10,800 |
| OPERATION UPLIFT | $10,000 |
| CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE | $8,100 |
| DAWG FOUNDERS FUND | $8,100 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $8,100 |
| LANGE FOUNDATION | $8,100 |
| SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK | $8,100 |
| DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES | $8,100 |
| CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY SAN GABRIEL | $5,400 |
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 (FY20–24, $337k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- TBTHE BRITISH HOME IN CALIFORNIA LTD5× · 2020–2024 · $248k · revenue +31%
- SBSANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +116%
- DFDOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- CSCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +0%
- PFPETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +146%
- SFSHADOWS FUND INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +161%
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.
To provide a safe haven for senior dogs that are abandoned, abused, or face euthanasia who are unable to be cared for by their owners.
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
To provide better care for animals in santa barbara county shelters.
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
See schedule orancho coastal is dedicated to the rescue and shelter of abandoned companion animals. it encourages adoptions into loving homes and provides educational and community outreach programs designed to enhance the human-animal…
Sheltering, facilitation of neutering, medical services and adoption of cats and dogs
Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
To provide a no kill shelter for homeless pets and promote adoption to good homes.
At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…
Pets Lifeline is dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats and dogs in need in Sonoma Valley through sheltering and adoption, humane education, and community programs.
To care for pets, find them homes and save lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canine Companions for Independence Inc and the most unlike its peers is The British Home in California Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 26 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 BRITISH HOME IN CALIFORNIA LTD ↗
- Who funds PORT ANGELES FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA WILDLIFE CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds DOGS FOR THE DEAF INC DBA DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BUNNIES URGENTLY NEEDING SHELTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY GREATER SAN GABRIEL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
- Who funds SANTA YNEZ VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LANGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds DAWG Founders Fund ↗
- Who funds CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY - GREATER CINCINNATI/NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds PETS FOR THE ELDERLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHADOWS FUND INCORPORATED ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 The Darlene & Harry Lambert 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.