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The Lampert 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
70% of The Lampert Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 4 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year The Lampert Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k4 grants · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Breast Cancer Research Foundation | $1,500,000 |
| Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program | $475,000 |
| The Ayn Rand Institute | $200,000 |
| The Reason Foundation | $100,000 |
| Breakthrough Miami | $25,000 |
| Overtown Optimist Club | $25,000 |
| Ransom Everglades School | $500 |
| Best Buddies Inc | $250 |
| Dolphins Cancer Challenge | $250 |
| The Pace Center for Girls | $100 |
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 (FY18–18, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2020, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $365k 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
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +40%- TATHE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM5× · 2017–2022 · $700k · revenue +213%
- KFKIPP FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2019 · $550k · revenue +108%
Funded once
SANTA FE INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +402%- MCMIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +105%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Miami Inc and the most unlike its peers is Best Buddies Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 39 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 VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AYN RAND INSTITUTE THE CENTER FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF OBJECTIVISM ↗
- Who funds KIPP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE REASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds MIAMI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds MIAMI CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCESS GRACE FOUNDATION - USA ↗
- Who funds OVERTOWN OPTIMIST CLUB ↗
- Who funds AUTONATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CANCER GENE THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRCHILD TROPICAL BOTANIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BASS MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOCUST PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAENA ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds BEST BUDDIES INC ↗
- Who funds MIB AGENTS INC ↗
- Who funds PACE CENTER FOR GIRLSINC ↗
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: The Miami Foundation Inc · Greater Miami Jewish Federation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Albert H and Jane D Nahmad Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Leon J Simkins Charitable Foundation · The Citadel Foundation · Jacob and Anita Penzer Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc
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 Lampert 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
- Pace Center for Girlsinc — 2% of income from government
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.