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Fay J Lindner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
119
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$3.2MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$496kReligion$347kArts & Culture$142kHousing & Shelter$133kCivil Rights$90kYouth Development$41kOther$0
02FY2024 · 119 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k55 grants · $186k
  • $10k–50k55 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $844k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR EXCEPTIONAL CARE$198,203
INSTITUTE FOR EXCEPTIONAL CARE$116,783
WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL$110,000
INSTITUTE FOR EXCEPTIONAL CARE$81,420
INSTITUTE FOR EXCEPTIONAL CARE$81,420
INSTITUTE FOR EXCEPTIONAL CARE$81,420
NS CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE$75,000
HOSPICE CARE NETWORK$50,000
LI ALZHEIMER'S AND DEMENTIA CENTER$50,000
TILLES CENTER$45,000
ABILITIES INC$35,000
EAC$30,000
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY$25,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH$25,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $766k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 4%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $50k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $50k → 6%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $25k → 6%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $25k → 6%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY: $25k → 6%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION: $25k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $25k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $10k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $10k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $10k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $5k → 6%DOROT: $5k → 6%DOROT: $5k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $5k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $5k → 6%YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE: $5k → 6%ISLAND HARVEST: $5k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 6%COVENANT HOUSE: $3k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $2k → 6%HOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $1k → 6%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.
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.1M · 53 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
64

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

49%
2%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $367k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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

  • HC
    HOSPICE CARE NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $313k · revenue +7%
  • HU
    HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $270k · revenue +8%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $225k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH
    one grant, 2017 · $184k
  • HC
    HOSPICE CARE NETWORK
    one grant, 2017 · $151k
  • AF
    ACLD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The New York and Presbyterian Hospital

To be a leader in the provision of world class patient care, teaching, research, and service to local, state, national, and international communities. newyork-presbyterian hospital is one of the nation's most comprehensive, integrated…

Health
4
Rochester Regional Health

The organization is organized and operated for the benefit of all of the affiliates within rochester regional health system. the organization supports and assists the affiliates by reviewing and monitoring their missions, objectives,…

Health
5
Long Island Jewish Medical Center

Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…

Health
6
Nyu Langone Hospitals

The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…

Health
7
The New York Gracie Square Hospital Inc

Our mission is to provide the highest-quality, state-of-the-art mental health and chemical dependency treatment in a warm, healing environment. our caring, compassionate team prepares our patients to return to their families and…

Health
8
Central Suffolk Hospital

Central suffolk hospital ("csh") d/b/a peconic bay medical center ("pbmc") is a not-for-profit hospital consisting of acute health care, a skilled nursing facility and a certified home care agency. csh provides a full range of health care…

Health
9
Newyork-Presbyterianqueens

To be the premier healthcare institution serving our greater community by providing excellence in clinical care and patient safety, education, clinical research, and service.

Health
10
Glen Cove Hospital

Glen cove hospital is part of northwell health, inc. ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality geriatric care; educating the current and future…

Health
11
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital

Mission: to heal, to teach, to discover and to advance the health of the communities we serve. values: humanity, innovation, teamwork, diversity and equity - our values define our philosophy of care. they shape our actions and motivate and…

Health
12
Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care and Rehabilitation

To provide with compassion and dedication superior quality health care and rehabilitation for adults and to directly or indirectly coordinate arrangements and provision for comprehensive health care and social support services to frail…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family and Children's Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Rachel Cooper Foundation Inc. 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

32 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. 32 of the 132 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INSTITUTE FOR EXCEPTIONAL CARE: $1,024,940 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR EXCEPTIONAL CAREPARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $303,220 · OtherPARKER JEWISH INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONALS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NY: $264,275 · OtherALS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NYNORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER: $229,380 · OtherNORTH SHORE CHILD & FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTERGURWIN JEWISH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $201,400 · OtherNORTHWELL HEALTH: $184,287 · OtherHOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $151,000 · Other+100 more: $1,870,326 · Other+100 moreHOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $312,500 · Human ServicesHOSPICE CARE NE…FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $225,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE …FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $125,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND CHIL…YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADULT INS…+4 more: $28,000 · Human ServicesHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $270,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $40,000 · EducationCornell University: $23,726 · EducationPORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationNORTHWELL HEALTH INC: $207,913 · Community ImprovementJASA CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $50,000 · HealthEPIC LONG ISLAND INC: $22,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,863 · HealthMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $11,863 · HealthCancer Care Inc: $10,000 · HealthHEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyCANDID: $2,000 · PhilanthropyLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,228,828Human Services$765,500Education$353,726Community Improvement$217,913Health$118,726Philanthropy$32,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOSPICE CARE NETWORK: $312,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $270,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILITIES INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $23,726 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPIC LONG ISLAND INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPORT WASHINGTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $11,863 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $11,863 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICA'S VETDOGS THE VETERANS K-9 CORPS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND HARVEST LTD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOROT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJASA CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEAD INJURY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDYSTROPHIC EPIDERMOLYSIS BULLOSA RESEARCH ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChild Care Council Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RACHEL COOPER FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIFT OF LIFE INC: $3,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNURSING SISTERS HOME CARE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANDID: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEATHER PENDERGAST FUND INC: $2,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetST FRANCIS FOOD PANTRIES AND SHELTERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 HOSPICE CARE NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG ADULT INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ABILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗

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.

Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNY15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Posillico Foundation Inc · Flagstar Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Fay J Lindner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fay J Lindner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Fay J Lindner Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fay J Lindner Foundation 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 132 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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