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John R Lindahl Foundation

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.

$536k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 20
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations John R Lindahl Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthEducationHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPublic BenefitOther
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 arriving16$536k31%
FY202418$1.6M0%
FY202315$232k20%
FY202217$257k47%
FY202114$243k21%
FY202020$245k20%
FY201918$210k39%
FY201814$200k21%
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$1.5MHealth$1.3MReligion$304kHuman Services$269kHousing & Shelter$87kRecreation & Sports$60kAnimals$60kEmployment$25kOther$0

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
San Luis Obispo Classical Academy$1,350,52097%
Saddle Up$876,959918%
Freedom Reigns Ranch$183,736713%
Belmont University$155,00090%
Brightstone Inc$144,00091%
Standing Stone Ministries Inc$124,00080%
Healing Housing Inc$75,00064%
For the Children$45,00061%
Sexual Assault Center$40,00040%
Tennessee Baptist Childrens Homes Inc$40,0005n/a
Show all 31 grantees
All grantees of John R Lindahl Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
San Luis Obispo Classical Academy$1,350,52097%
Saddle Up$876,959918%
Freedom Reigns Ranch$183,736713%
Belmont University$155,00090%
Brightstone Inc$144,00091%
Standing Stone Ministries Inc$124,00080%
Healing Housing Inc$75,00064%
For the Children$45,00061%
Sexual Assault Center$40,00040%
Tennessee Baptist Childrens Homes Inc$40,0005n/a
Woods Humane Society Inc$32,00031%
Siloam Health$27,00050%
Family Care Network Inc$25,00020%
Healing Heroes Through Horsemanship Incorporated$25,000112%
Interfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville$22,50050%
Embrace Grace Inc$20,0001n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$20,00020%
Rancho Burro Donkey Sanctuary$17,00030%
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County$16,00020%
Begin Anew$15,00022%
Bordeaux Eagles$10,0002n/a
Aventura Community School$10,00040%
Partners Equestrian Therapy$10,0002n/a
Salus House$7,000315%
Redemption Ranch$5,0001n/a
Mercy Health Services Inc$5,00010%
US Figure Skating Championships Nashville Inc$5,00012%
Tree of Life a Crisis Pregnancy Center$5,0001n/a
Ellas House$5,00012%
Pet Association of Estes Park Inc$3,00013%
Ferrell Hollow Farm Senior Horse Sanctury$2,50012%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($387k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John R Lindahl Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Luis Obispo Classical Academy: $1,350,520 over 9y, 6.8% of budgetSaddle Up: $876,959 over 9y, 18% of budgetFreedom Reigns Ranch: $183,736 over 7y, 13% of budgetBelmont University: $155,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBrightstone Inc: $144,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetStanding Stone Ministries Inc: $124,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHealing Housing Inc: $75,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetFor the Children: $45,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSexual Assault Center: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWoods Humane Society Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSiloam Health: $27,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Care Network Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHealing Heroes Through Horsemanship Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetInterfaith Dental Clinic of Nashville: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRancho Burro Donkey Sanctuary: $17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFood Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBegin Anew: $15,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetAventura Community School: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSalus House: $7,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMercy Health Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS Figure Skating Championships Nashville Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEllas House: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPet Association of Estes Park Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetFerrell Hollow Farm Senior Horse Sanctury: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% 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 25.

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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.

United Way of Middle Tennessee IncTN25.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Servant Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation · Hca Healthcare Foundation · United Way of Williamson County · Dettwiller Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Community Health Systems Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to John R Lindahl 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.

About John R Lindahl Foundation

How much does John R Lindahl Foundation give?
John R Lindahl Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $536,441 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does John R Lindahl Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (36%), Religion (8%).
Who are John R Lindahl Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: San Luis Obispo Classical Academy ($1.4M), Saddle Up ($877k), Freedom Reigns Ranch ($184k).
Does John R Lindahl Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John R Lindahl Foundation 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 John R Lindahl Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Servant Foundation.
Where is John R Lindahl Foundation based?
John R Lindahl Foundation is based in TN.

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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