· Private foundation
The Frank and Mary Lamberson Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHRINERS HOSPITALS FORCHILDREN | $15,250 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL | $15,250 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WNC | $10,000 |
| ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL | $9,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| VASSER COLLEGE | $4,000 |
| MITCHELL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| SPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FOFLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $120k · revenue +114%
- VCVASSAR COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +19%
- DZDETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TCTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The mission of the gibbes museum of art is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality; collect and preserve the art that touches charleston; and provide…
Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.
Rochester art center offers the opportunity for all people to understand and value the arts through innovative experiences with contemporary art. through world-class exhibitions and programs, we present a welcoming, integrated, and diverse…
To educate Charleston area residents and visitors about the natural and cultural history of the South Carolina Lowcountry through collections, exhibitions, preservation, conservation, research and related programming.
The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.
To excite, engage and educate through the arts.
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA OCEANOGRAPHIC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DETROIT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Asheville Art Museum Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SPRUCE PINE MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL COUNTY SAFE PLACE INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Samuel L Phillips Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Frank and Mary Lamberson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frank and Mary Lamberson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Florida Oceanographic Society Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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