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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 FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$767k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION$7,500
Hawaii Community Foundation$7,500
CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS$7,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$7,500
CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER$7,500
CLINTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY$3,000
LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE$3,000
BACK2BACK MINISTRIES$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Friends of the Lihue Public Library: $15k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%AMERICARES: $3k → 9%Ruby M Sisson Memorial Library FDN: $25k → 10%BACK2BACK MINISTRIES: $3k → 6%CLINTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 12%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $15k → 16%WORLD CONCERN FOR WOMEN OF: $4k → 9%Garden Island Resource Conservation and: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%NATIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION: $4k → 14%AMERICARES FOR PORTA RICO: $3k → 9%Ruby M Sisson Memorial Library FDN: $25k → 10%Hawaii Community Foundation: $8k → 9%Hawaii Community Foundation: $8k → 9%Hawaii Community Foundation: $8k → 9%HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI: $5k → 16%CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $8k → 9%HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $8k → 9%HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $8k → 9%CINCINNATI ANIMAL CAREHAMILTON: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $3k → 9%HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI: $3k → 16%CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $3k → 9%GLAD HOUSE: $3k → 16%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $15k → 16%CITY GOSPEL MISSION: $5k → 16%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $8k → 16%CITY GOSPEL MISSION: $4k → 16%LITTLE MIAMI INC: $5k → 9%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $8k → 16%CITY GOSPEL MISSION: $4k → 16%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $8k → 16%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $5k → 16%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $5k → 16%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $4k → 16%CRAYONS TO COMPUTERS: $4k → 16%INTER PARISH MINISTRY: $15k → 16%PRO KIDS CINCINNATI: $15k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $8k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $8k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $8k → 16%PRO KIDS CINCINNATI: $6k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5k → 16%PRO KIDS CINCINNATI: $4k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
OH
CT
CA
CO
VA
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$382k · 28 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
15

Total granted

$382k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+47%

Still filing today

68%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsPhilanthropyEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementInternationalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CA
    CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +45%
  • RM
    RUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $50k · revenue +285%
  • CN
    CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER
    6× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LIHUE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • GI
    Garden Island Resource Conservation and
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • CA
    CINCINNATI ANIMAL CAREHAMILTON
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
2
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
3
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
4
Colorado Museum of Natural History

Be a catalyst! Ignite our community's passion for nature and science.

Arts & Culture
5
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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6
Arbor Research Collaborative for Health

Arbor research collaborative for health is committed to improving patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice. in particular, arbor research conducts health outcomes research on chronic disease and end-stage…

Health
7
Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.

Animals
8
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
9
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
10
Center for Conflict Resolution

The mission of the organization (ccr) shall be to work with individuals, communities, courts, and other institutions to manage and resolve conflict.

Crime & Legal
11
Columbus Zoological Park Association

Empowering people. saving wildlife.

Animals
12
Gardens for Health International

Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hawaii Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Clermont County Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $33,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODPRO KIDS CINCINNATI: $28,000 · OtherPRO KIDS CINCINNATIInter Parish Ministry Inc: $19,500 · OtherInter Parish Ministry IncBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $16,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATIFRIENDS OF THE LIHUE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $15,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE LIHUE PUBLIC LIBRARY INCHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED: $14,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATEDCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES: $14,000 · OtherCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATESLITTLE MIAMI INC: $11,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $11,000 · OtherCENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS: $9,000 · OtherCLINTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $8,500 · Other+19 more: $63,500 · Other+19 moreCRAYONS AND BEYOND INC: $55,500 · PhilanthropyCRAYONS AND BEYOND IN…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUN…RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES: $4,000 · PhilanthropyHBS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyRUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementRUBY M SISSON…MALAMA HULEIA: $2,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $30,500 · Environment+2 more: $2,000 · EnvironmentColby's Crew Rescue: $9,000 · AnimalsCLERMONT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $6,500 · AnimalsKAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 · AnimalsGLENDALE HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA: $1,500 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · International
Other$243,500Philanthropy$86,000Community Improvement$53,000Environment$32,500Animals$19,500Education$15,000International$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CRAYONS AND BEYOND INC ↗
  • Who funds RUBY M SISSON MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI NATURE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Inter Parish Ministry Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Colby's Crew Rescue ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ADDICTION TREATMENT F/K/A THE CENTER FOR CHEMICAL ADDICTIONS ↗
  • Who funds CLERMONT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Children's Health Fund ↗
  • Who funds RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds HBS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
  • Who funds LAST MILE FOOD RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds Glad House Inc ↗
  • Who funds Back 2 Back Ministries Inc ↗
  • Who funds KAUAI HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds MALAMA HULEIA ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
  • Who funds GLENDALE HUMANE SOCIETY & SPCA ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI CHALLENGE RANCH ↗

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 Cincinnat…Millstone FundThe Thomas J Emery Me…Johnson Charitable Gi…Duke Energy FoundationWilliam P Anderson Fo…Marge & Charles J Sch…Pfau Charitable Found…Andrew Jergens Founda…The Scripps Howard Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Betty Lindner Foundation Ima funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Betty Lindner Foundation Ima. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Betty Lindner Foundation Ima through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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