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Lincoln Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$36kInternational$34kRecreation & Sports$30kFood & Nutrition$4kHealth$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,370
Median grant
3
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Public Broadcasting Service$4,370
Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc$4,370
NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY$3,870
GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 70% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc: $4k → 8%MALARIA CONSORTIUM US: $5k → 13%UNITED STATES FUND FOR: $4k → 17%WATER ORG INC: $4k → 15%PATH: $4k → 9%HUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC: $5k → 4%GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER: $2k → 7%Public Broadcasting Service: $4k → 7%MALARIA CONSORTIUM US: $4k → 13%MALARIA NO MORE: $4k → 9%HUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC: $4k → 4%GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER: $1k → 7%MALARIA CONSORTIUM US: $4k → 13%PATH: $4k → 9%HUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL: $4k → 4%GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS: $1k → 7%HUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL: $4k → 4%GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER: $1k → 7%HUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL: $4k → 4%GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS: $500 → 7%HUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL: $4k → 4%GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS: $500 → 7%HUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC: $4k → 4%GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS: $500 → 7%NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY: $4k → 7%NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY: $4k → 7%NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY: $4k → 7%NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY: $3k → 7%NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY: $3k → 7%NEW JERSEY CHORAL SOCIETY: $2k → 7%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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 6 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$89k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-2%

Still filing today

83%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • NJ
    New Jersey Choral Society
    9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +26%
  • MC
    MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $13k · revenue +136%
  • GR
    GLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • US
    UNITED STATES FUND FOR
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
  • MN
    MALARIA NO MORE FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -13%
  • W
    WATERORG
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -2%
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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
3
Global Alliance for Tb Drug Development Inc

Tb alliance is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, development and delivery of better, faster-acting and affordable tuberculosis drugs that are available to those who need them.

Health
4
Gavi Alliance

To save lives and protect people's health by increasing equitable and sustainable use of vaccines.

International
5
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
6
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

To define and advance quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives.

Health
7
Vitalant

Unite blood and biologics donors, talent, and innovation to save and improve lives.

Health
8
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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9
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Joint Commission evaluates and accredits health care organizations and programs across the United States to ensure compliance with rigorous standards of quality and safety, including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)…

Health
10
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
11
Global Hiv Vaccine Enterprise

The global hiv vaccine enterprise (the enterprise) is an alliance of independent organizations dedicated to accelerating the development of safe and effective hiv vaccines for use globally. it moves vaccine research and development forward…

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12
News Media Alliance

The news media alliance (nma) is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 news media organizations and their multi-media platform businesses in the us, canada and europe.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Malaria No More Fund; the most unlike its peers is Hunterdon Legion Baseball Club 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Jersey Choral Society: $31,546 · OtherNew Jersey Choral SocietyUNITED STATES FUND FOR: $4,218 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FORIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS: $2,500 · OtherGLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPSHUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC: $29,747 · Recreation & SportsHUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL CLU…MALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $13,181 · HealthMALARIA CONSORTIU…Teaching Kitchen Collaborative Inc: $4,370 · HealthTeaching Kitchen …PATH: $8,131 · InternationalPATHWATERORG: $4,065 · InternationalWATERORGPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $4,370 · Arts & CultureMALARIA NO MORE FUND: $4,146 · PhilanthropyTHE SEEING EYE INC: $3,961 · Human Services
Other$42,264Recreation & Sports$29,747Health$17,551International$12,196Arts & Culture$4,370Philanthropy$4,146Human Services$3,961

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 budgetNew Jersey Choral Society: $31,546 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetHUNTERDON LEGION BASEBALL CLUB INC: $29,747 over 7y, 12% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $13,181 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPATH: $8,131 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE: $4,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALARIA NO MORE FUND: $4,146 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWATERORG: $4,065 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $3,961 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN ROCK VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS: $2,500 over 4y, 0.6% 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • New Jersey Choral Society: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Lincoln Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lincoln Family 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 12 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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