Virginia · Nonprofit
THE LAMB CENTER
THE LAMB CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,801,496 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($474,082). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.5M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $13M
What The Lamb Center does
Mission
To live out the compassionate heart of christ by serving our neighbors experiencing homelessness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The center is open six days a week and our staff and volunteers offer many services to the homeless, including: counseling, job placement assistance, laundry, shower facilities, morning and afternoon meals, and subsidies to those needing lodging. Assistance is provided with preparing resumes, interviewing skills, securing identification and educational documents needed for employment. Counseling is provided for people struggling with addictions and mental illnesses. In addition to aa meetings, the center has two open bible conversations each day. These conversations often address issues related to homelessness, addictions, depression and related topics. We enabled approximately 100 to gain employment, housing, and/or treatment in the past year. During fy2025 the center served approximately 63,247 meals, washed 8,990 clothes, provided 22,290 showers and clothed 31,885.
$2,168,484 spentof which $649,171 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,168,484.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $7.5M to $11M (+46%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 14% · 2018 14% · 2019 16% · 2020 17% · 2021 25% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% · 2024 19% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE LAMB CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Lesley Hatch
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $90k → $428k.
16 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE LAMB CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE LAMB CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE LAMB CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 25% · 2019 22% · 2020 26% · 2021 32% · 2022 27% · 2023 18% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of THE LAMB CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
59% of THE LAMB CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.2M that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE LAMB CENTER runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,209 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,209 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like THE LAMB CENTER
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LAMB CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LAMB CENTER?
- THE LAMB CENTER (Virginia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,801,496 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($474,082). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LAMB CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $2,801,496 in grants to THE LAMB CENTER, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LAMB CENTER?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $474,082 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LAMB CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 54 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing