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Abraham Lincoln Association

To observe each anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln; to preserve and make more readily accessible the landmarks associated with his life; and to actively encourage, promote and aid the collection and dissemination of authentic information regarding all phases of his life and career.

$19k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$13k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$13,030
Largest grant, FY2023
$13,030
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$1.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Abraham Lincoln Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’23
Arts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$13k100%
FY20211$6k100%
FY20201$5k100%
FY20192$30k50%
FY20182$26kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$62kPublic Benefit$13kYouth Development$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition$40,00026%
Peoria Historical Society$13,03015%
Firelight Publishing$10,0001n/a
Lincoln Presidential Foundation$6,00010%
Kalamazoo Abraham Lincoln Institute$5,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Abraham Lincoln Association

How much does Abraham Lincoln Association give?
Abraham Lincoln Association reported 1 itemized grants totaling $13,030, out of $18,530 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Abraham Lincoln Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (77%), Public Benefit (16%), Youth Development (6%).
Who are Abraham Lincoln Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Looking for Lincoln Heritage Coalition ($40k), Peoria Historical Society ($13k), Firelight Publishing ($10k).
Does Abraham Lincoln Association fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Abraham Lincoln Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Abraham Lincoln Association based?
Abraham Lincoln Association is based in IL.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $6k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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