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The David G Lambert Foundation

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.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$60kEducation$32kYouth Development$8kHuman Services$5kPhilanthropy$4kReligion$4kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$35,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$16,000
PALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC$7,500
SHELTERING WINGS$5,000
MV YOUTH$2,500
ST THOMAS AQUINAS MEDICAL CENTER-CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHELTERING WINGS: $5k → 15%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.
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.
03Its 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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Sea Crest School Inc

Sea crest school is dedicated to providing the best in innovative education to inspire and empower our learners to engage curiosity, express creativity, act with compassion and lead with courage.

Education
3
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
4
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…

Education
5
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
6
Education Foundation of Palm Beach County Inc

The foundation is the nexus of palm beach county's public schools, the private sector, and the community. it facilitates student achievement by supporting high quality public education through partnership, grants, events and public…

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7
The Bolles School

The bolles school prepares students for college and life by inspiring excellence, courage, integrity and compassion in an academic community dedicated to nurturing mind, body and soul.

Education
8
Seacrest School Inc

Within every human being there is a potential for learning that is virtually unlimited. seacrest school acclaims an eduational system where learning to be everything you can be in a rapidly changing world is a central theme.

Education
9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
10
South Shore Charter School

The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…

Education
11
Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc

Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.

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12
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seal Future Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mv Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCDUKE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $15,000 · EducationPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMV YOUTH INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentSHELTERING WINGS INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesST EDWARD CATHOLIC CHURCH: $2,500 · OtherDIOCESE OF PALM BEACH: $1,000 · OtherST THOMAS AQUINAS MEDICAL CENTER-CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $1,000 · OtherCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $250 · OtherPALM BEACH PUBLIC ELEMENTARY: $250 · OtherPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropySEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$60,000Education$31,000Youth Development$7,500Human Services$5,000Other$5,000Philanthropy$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH DAY ACADEMY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTERING WINGS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH NAVY SEAL EVENING OF TRIBUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 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 Endowment FoundationOH12.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The David G Lambert Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David G Lambert Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The David G Lambert Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The David G Lambert Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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