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Betty Lindner Foundation Ima

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.

$47k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Grants FY2025
9
Organizations funded FY2024
33%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 23
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$767k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Betty Lindner Foundation Ima funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementAnimalsEnvironmentEducationInternationalHealthOther
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
FY2025still arriving7$39k29%
FY20249$39k33%
FY202310$42k20%
FY202212$54k8%
FY202113$109k31%
FY202023$49k22%
FY201923$55k35%
FY201720$45kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$142kHealth$70kEnvironment$60kYouth Development$48kAnimals$31kReligion$24kPhilanthropy$24kFood & Nutrition$23kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Crayons and Beyond Inc$55,50080%
Ruby M Sisson Memorial Library Foundation$50,000210%
Cincinnati Nature Center$30,50060%
Inter Parish Ministry Inc$19,50041%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati$16,50020%
Friends of the Lihue Public Library Inc$15,0001n/a
University of Hawaii Foundation$15,00020%
Hospice of Cincinnati Incorporated$14,00040%
City Gospel Mission and Affiliates$14,00050%
National Park Foundation$11,00030%
Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Betty Lindner Foundation Ima supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCrayons and Beyond Inc: $55,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRuby M Sisson Memorial Library Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCincinnati Nature Center: $30,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInter Parish Ministry Inc: $19,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati: $16,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Hawaii Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHospice of Cincinnati Incorporated: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCity Gospel Mission and Affiliates: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetColby's Crew Rescue: $9,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Addiction Treatment F/K/A the Center for Chemical Addictions: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetClermont County Humane Society: $6,500 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Health Fund: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRussian Leadership Ministries: $4,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGreenpeace Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGlad House Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKauai Humane Society Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMalama Huleia: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlendale Humane Society & Spca: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCincinnati Challenge Ranch: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition for Rainforest Nations Secretariat: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClimate Emergency Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH16.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Millstone Fund · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · William P Anderson Foundation Central Trust · Marge & Charles J Schott Foundation · Pfau Charitable Foundation · Andrew Jergens Foundation · The Scripps Howard Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America

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 Betty Lindner Foundation Ima

How much does Betty Lindner Foundation Ima give?
Betty Lindner Foundation Ima reported 8 grants totaling $46,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Betty Lindner Foundation Ima fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Health (15%), Environment (13%).
Who are Betty Lindner Foundation Ima's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crayons and Beyond Inc ($56k), Ruby M Sisson Memorial Library Foundation ($50k), Cincinnati Nature Center ($31k).
Does Betty Lindner Foundation Ima fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Betty Lindner Foundation Ima accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Betty Lindner Foundation Ima?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Greater Cincinnati Foundation, Millstone Fund, The Thomas J Emery Memorial.
Where is Betty Lindner Foundation Ima based?
Betty Lindner Foundation Ima is based in OH.

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 46 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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