Lytton-Kambara Foundation

• The foundation accepts no unsolicited requests and makes grants only to organisations it has preselected, so a small charity should look for an introduction rather than send a cold application.
• Most of its grant dollars go to organisations it has funded before (99% in the filing), which suggests that an existing relationship or continuity matters more than a new proposal.
• Half of its 63 grants to organisations were $1,000 or less, and about 8 in 10 fall between $200 and $300,000, so a modest request fits its usual pattern, though its largest grant was $1,200,000 and that band is not a ceiling.
• No geographic focus is stated, and the filing shows grants mainly in New York and Virginia; that describes where it has given, not who may apply.
• Its giving is led by land conservation and greenway trail work, so a charity working far from that field has less obvious common ground with it.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Open Space Institute · on-going land conservation and greenway trail projects undertaken by the grantee in the Shawangunk Mountain Region of New York State
  $1,200,0002024 tax year
• Trust for Public Land · Land Conservation Fund
  $625,0002024 tax year
• Natural Resources Defense Council · General & Unrestricted
  $300,0002024 tax year
• Nature Conservancy · Twin River project
  $250,0002024 tax year
• Nature Conservancy · Land Conservation Fund
  $125,0002024 tax year
• Pitzer College · General & Unrestricted
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Bryn Mawr College · Bryn Mawr Scholarship Fund
  $25,0002024 tax year
• Bowdoin College · Clare McWilliams Lyne Scholarship Fund
  $20,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.