· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $81k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $867k
- $50k–250k37 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $900,000 |
| MENLO COLLEGE | $675,000 |
| KALAMAZOO COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $150,000 |
| OAKLAND ZOO | $110,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $100,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CALIF PACIFIC CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $100,000 |
| GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK OF MAINE | $100,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA | $90,000 |
| THE LIBRARY COMPANY | $75,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND | $75,000 |
| CARIE | $75,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $65,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $588k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
133 repeat relationships: 90 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $903k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SHSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +466%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $575k · revenue +21%- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AOAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $650k · revenue +161%
- WHWORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE USA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $464k · revenue -92% · 47% of their budget
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.
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Public health institute generates and promotes research, leadership and partnerships to build capacity for strong public health policy, programs, systems and practices.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.
How this is measured
118 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 118 of the 185 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MENLO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds Lewa Wildlife Conservancy USA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE USA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ADVOCACY FOR THE RIGHTS AND INTERESTS OF THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds San Mateo County Health Foundation ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lillian Lincoln Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lillian Lincoln Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- East Lynne Theater Company: 12% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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