California · Private foundation
Lillian Lincoln 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.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2024
- 89
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $900,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 114
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 21
- Total assets, FY2024
- $82M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Lillian Lincoln Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 98 | $5.0M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 89 | $2.7M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 94 | $3.6M | 9% |
| FY2021 | 110 | $3.7M | 16% |
| FY2020 | 114 | $3.3M | 48% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $2.0M | 33% |
| FY2018 | 51 | $1.2M | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sequoia Hospital Foundation | $1,270,000 | 6 | 23% |
| Kalamazoo College | $710,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Menlo College | $675,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Amigos of Costa Rica Inc | $650,000 | 1 | 15% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $575,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA | $468,090 | 2 | 10% |
| University of Melbourne USA Foundation | $464,282 | 1 | 47% |
| Samaritan House | $435,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Feeding America | $405,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 118 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lillian Lincoln Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Jessie Cheng Charitable Foundation · Shp Christian Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Asian Pacific Fund · Cathay Bank Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma
How this is measured
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About Lillian Lincoln Foundation
- How much does Lillian Lincoln Foundation give?
- Lillian Lincoln Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $5,010,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 114 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lillian Lincoln Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (19%), International (17%).
- Who are Lillian Lincoln Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sequoia Hospital Foundation ($1.3M), Kalamazoo College ($710k), Menlo College ($675k).
- Does Lillian Lincoln Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lillian Lincoln 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 Lillian Lincoln Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation.
- Where is Lillian Lincoln Foundation based?
- Lillian Lincoln Foundation is based in CA.
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