How much did Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc grant in FY2025?

Education$8.0MArts & Culture$6.5MHuman Services$6.5MYouth Development$5.9MPhilanthropy$5.5MFood & Nutrition$5.2MHousing & Shelter$4.1MCommunity Improvement$2.5MOther$0

02FY2025 · 3159 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k2913 grants · $969k
$10k–50k214 grants · $5.1M
$50k–250k31 grants · $2.5M
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$100

Median grant

States reached

$5.8M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
COBBS CREEK RESTORATION AND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$250,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER GREENSBORO INC	$247,534
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC	$150,000
JALEN HURTS FOUNDATION	$125,000
The HistoryMakers	$100,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY	$100,000
BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF PHILADELPHIA INC	$100,000
UNITED WAY OF ALLEN COUNTY INC	$100,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN INDIANA	$90,000
Heights Philadelphia	$90,000
Junior Achievement of Delaware Valley Inc	$85,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC	$80,000
THE FREE LIBRARY OF PHILADELPHIA	$75,000
UNITED WAY OF THE MIDLANDS	$75,000
YWCA NORTHEAST INDIANA INC	$72,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$48M · 1271 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

1271 repeat relationships — 720 still active in FY2025, 551 since wound down; 123 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1271

575

Total granted

$48M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%

+13%

Still filing today

85%

70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $591k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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COMMUNITY HARVEST FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST INDIANA INC
6× · 2020–2025 · $614k · revenue +12%
TH
THE HISTORYMAKERS
6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +41%
HP
HEIGHTS PHILADELPHIA
6× · 2020–2025 · $585k · revenue +306%

Funded once

GC
GREENSBORO CHAMBER FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $125k · revenue -28%
GC
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
one grant, 2020 · $125k
AC
AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LIFE INSURANCE INC
one grant, 2022 · $100k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

Augustana College

Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.

Education

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

Furman University

Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.

Education

Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

Central maine healthcare corporation supports its affiliated healthcare institutions in order for these entities to provide exceptional healthcare services.

Health

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education

Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2,046 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education

United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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Arbor Research Collaborative for

To improve patient care through research that shapes medical policies and practice.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sesame Workshop. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.8%25/3,335

the rest of the field

13%

240,371/1,816,230

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.

04the grantee network

1636 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. 1636 of the 2,000 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

310

Early backer (in before they grew)

1609/1636

Grantees still filing

1134/1636

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$16,608,221Human Services$6,033,696Philanthropy$4,274,520Arts & Culture$3,861,158Education$3,840,704Youth Development$3,225,431Food & Nutrition$2,898,200

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

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.

Edward M Wilson FoundationPA91.5× affinity66 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edward M Wilson Foundation · English-Bonter-Mitchell Fdn · The Waterfield Foundation Inc · M E Raker Foundation Inc · Howard P Arnold Foundation Inc · Dr Louis a and Anne B Schneider Fdn · The James Foundation Inc · Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne Inc · Edward D & Ione Auer Foundation Monarch Capital David Meyer Trustee · Zollner Foundation · Flora Dale Krouse 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 Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

10get no government money at all

90report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc 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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home