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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $281k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| VANDERBILT CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| FREEDOM REIGNS RANCH | $50,000 |
| SADDLE UP | $46,441 |
| BELMONT UNIVERSITY | $30,000 |
| BRIGHTSTONE | $30,000 |
| STANDING STONE MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| HEALING HEROES THROUGH HORSEMANSHIP | $25,000 |
| TREE OF LIFE | $25,000 |
| EMBRACE GRACE | $20,000 |
| RANCHO BURRO DONKEY SANCTUARY | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| CASA SAN LUIS OBISPO | $15,000 |
| SALUS HOUSE | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 34% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +65% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SLSAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +363%
- SUSADDLE UP9× · 2017–2025 · $877k · revenue +253%
- FRFREEDOM REIGNS RANCH7× · 2019–2025 · $184k · revenue +504%
Funded once
- PIPARTNERS IN EQUINE THERAPYone grant, 2021 · $5k
- RRREDEMPTION RANCHone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +1%
- TOTREE OF LIFE A CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +65%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Laurel's House strengthens the human animal bond improves public health decreases the number of companion animal euthanasia due to overpopulation and diminishes human impact on native wildlife species by providing unprecedented access to…
Liberty sanctuary is a leading equine nonprofit dedicated to protecting americas most vulnerable horses and banning the slaughter of our cherished american equines. we rescue equines from the slaughter pipeline and offer comprehensive…
Sanctuary for abused or abandoned animals
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Lead our community's efforts to house, support, empower and advocate for families experiencing homelessness.
To remove the "no pets allowed" sign on the doors of domestic violence shelters. women should not have to choose between leaving their abuser and leaving their pets behind to be abused.
To provide a sanctuary for people and animals, founded on hope and healing for the long-term recovery of trauma victims, special needs animals, and male survivors of sex trafficking.
Redemption Ridge is dedicated to bringing hope and healing to young girls rescued from the horrendous world of sex trafficking. We are committed to redeeming lives, restoring dignity and placing purpose in hearts of these precious children.
Healing with Horseplay is an animal protection and welfare organization that rescues animals, primarily horses, that are abused, neglected or to be sent to slaughter and then rehabilitates them. After training them they will be sold to…
Sandbar sanctuary provides equine therapy for victims of domestic violence, using horses who have themselves been rescued from abusive or neglectful situations. our goal is to help our clients increase their confidence and learn to set…
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home god's neglected or abused equine through programs of shelter, adoption, education, and assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For the Children and the most unlike its peers is Rancho Burro Donkey Sanctuary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO CLASSICAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SADDLE UP ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM REIGNS RANCH ↗
- Who funds Belmont University ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds STANDING STONE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds FOR THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WOODS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SILOAM HEALTH ↗
- Who funds HEALING HEROES THROUGH HORSEMANSHIP INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH DENTAL CLINIC OF NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Embrace Grace Inc ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANCHO BURRO DONKEY SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK COALITION OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BEGIN ANEW ↗
- Who funds AVENTURA COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SALUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION RANCH ↗
- Who funds TREE OF LIFE A CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERCY HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ellas House ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John R Lindahl Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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