· Private foundation
The Lambert Family 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.
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 $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES | $28,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MOODY SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| VIVAL MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| BIG OAK RANCH | $12,000 |
| REDEEMER CITY TO CITY | $10,000 |
| WORLD GOSPEL MISSION | $6,000 |
| DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION | $3,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $3,000 |
| THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL | $1,500 |
| CHRISTIAN SERVICE MISSION | $1,500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| ALABAMA BAPTIST CHILDRENS HOME | $1,000 |
| ALABAMA SHERIFF'S YOUTH RANCHES | $1,000 |
| CO2 COALITION | $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 (FY17–25, $182k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of The Lambert Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BOBIG OAK RANCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +105%
- FPFIRST PRIORITY OF ALABAMA INC2× · 2017–2023 · $119k · revenue +45%
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSE9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +134%
Funded once
- FBFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MOODYone grant, 2022 · $15k
- FMFREEDOM MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Spread the gospel of jesus christ
The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…
Mobilization of churches in America by taking pastors and laymen on vision and service trips overseas in fulfillment of Jesus command to go ye into all the world, making disciples...
A Jesus Mission creates unique opportunities for individuals or teams to serves as Christian missionaires around the world through traditional evangelism, discipleship training, and outreach.
The non-profit's mission is to build the kingdom of god around the world, share the christian faith with non-believers, teach biblical principles to believers, and establish and strengthen churches around the world, utilizing various means…
To encourage and demonstrate grace in the body of christ across racial lines, so that communities throughout mississippi can see practical evidence of the gospel message.
Evangelism - proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ nationally and internationally by preaching, teaching, training, publishing, church planting, compassion and disaster relief.
Ministry is a cristian church focusing on spreading the word of god, humanitarian help, reaching out to communities in need, provide financial help, build new churches.
For his glory's mission is to launch disciple-making movements that transform nations for christ.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 BIG OAK RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY OF ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST PRIORITY GLOBAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Redeemer City To City ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN JIMMIE HALE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds VIVAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Christian Service Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ALABAMA SHERIFFS' YOUTH RANCHES INC ↗
- Who funds Christian Assistance Foundation ↗
- Who funds CO2 COALITION ↗
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: Alabama Power Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lambert Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lambert Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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