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Lincoln Healthcare Foundation at a glance

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Lincoln Healthcare 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.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$158kFood & Nutrition$76kHuman Services$73kHousing & Shelter$41kEducation$8kInternational$6kYouth Development$3kArts & Culture$2k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
$5,128
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIV OF MICH HEALTH SYSTEM$20,512
Individual grant recipient$10,257
MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK$10,256
UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT WAKE FOREST$5,256
ROOF ABOVE$5,128
YWCA MCLEAN COUNTY$5,128
ECU UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT$5,000
LAKE ERIE INK$3,256
SANDY SPRING FRIENDS SCHOOL$3,000
SPRINGSONG MUSEUM$2,000
NEW WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF PSYCHIATRY$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YWCA MCLEAN COUNTY: $5k → 11%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $10k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $10k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $10k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $7k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $7k → 10%CRISIS ASSISTANCE MINISTRY: $4k → 10%NC MEDASSIST: $3k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
OH
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$294k · 10 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

$294k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+87%

Still filing today

80%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
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

  • TH
    Teen Health Connection Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +27%
  • Crisis Assistance Ministry
    4× · 2021–2024 · $34k · revenue +6%
  • CC
    CHILD CARE RESOURCES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UM
    UNC MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • UO
    UNIV OF MICH PATIENT SUPPORT SERVIC
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +87%
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
Carolinas Care Partnership

To seek justice through health and housing.

Health
2
Community Free Clinic Inc

The mission of the Clinic is to help adults move toward wellness by providing healthcare and pharmacy services. The Clinic accomplishes its mission by removing the barriers of limited financial resources and lack of health insurance.…

Health
3
Center for Prevention Services

To promote health and resilience through progressive approaches that integrate evidence-based substance use prevention programming, harm reduction, and multifaceted systems of care.

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4
Coastal Horizons Center Inc

To provide a continuum of professional services to promote healthier lives, stronger families, and safer communities.

Health
5
Charles River Community Health Inc

To partner with individuals and families so they can thrive and lead healthier lives by delivering the comprehensive, integrated, and equitable primary healthcare that matters most to them.

Health
6
Community Care of North Carolina Inc

To foster and enhance quality, efficiency and access to health care services for patients in need of such services, particularly patient populations that are vulnerable and/or underserved.

Health
7
Center for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc

The center for comprehensive health practice, inc. provides accessible, community-based treatment that integrates primary healthcare with substance use and behavioral health services for all children, adolescents, adults, and families…

Health
8
Carolina Health Centers Inc

Carolina health centers offers primary care and patient support services to improve health, well-being and quality of life throughout the communities we serve.

Health
9
Cleveland County Abuse Prevention Council Inc

The Abuse Prevention Council provides emergency, advocacy, counseling, education and specialized services for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and homeless individuals and families.

Crime & Legal
10
Tri-County Community Health Council Inc

Provider of comprehensive, compassionate, high quality primary medical, dental, pharmacy and behavioral health services in southeastern north carolina.

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11
Carolina Community Care Inc

The mission of hospice & community care is to give hope, comfort, and compassion to those that need it most. hospice & community care is a nonprofit healthcare organization providing hospice and palliative care to residents of york,…

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12
The Children's Clinic 'Serving Children and Their Families'

TCC Family Health mission is to provide innovative, integrated, quality health care that will contribute to a healthy community, focusing on those in need and working with patients and the community as partners in their overall well-being.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Care Resources Inc; the most unlike its peers is MedAssist of Mecklenburg Dba Nc Medassist. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $41,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKCHILD CARE RESOURCES INC: $33,000 · OtherCHILD CARE RESOURCES INCUNIV OF MICH HEALTH SYSTEM: $20,512 · OtherUNIV OF MICH HEALTH SYSTEMIndividual grant recipient: $16,257 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUNC MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $7,000 · OtherUNIV OF MICH PATIENT SUPPORT SERVIC: $6,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT WAKE FOREST: $5,256 · OtherECU UNIVERSITY ADVANCEMENT: $5,000 · Other+6 more: $13,500 · Other+6 moreTeen Health Connection Inc: $35,000 · HealthTeen Health Connection …CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $22,000 · HealthCHARLOTTE COMMUNITY HEA…Care Ring Inc: $19,000 · HealthCare Ring IncCrisis Assistance Ministry: $34,000 · Human ServicesCrisis Assistance…MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $17,000 · Human ServicesMedAssist of Meck…YWCA MCLEAN COUNTY: $5,128 · Human ServicesYWCA MCLEAN COUNT…ROOF ABOVE INC: $41,128 · Arts & CultureROOF ABOVE I…MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $35,256 · Food & NutritionMID-SOUTH …PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 · InternationalCOMMON THREADS PROJECT: $1,000 · InternationalLAKE ERIE INK: $3,256 · Youth DevelopmentA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $1,500 · Education
Other$147,525Health$76,000Human Services$56,128Arts & Culture$41,128Food & Nutrition$35,256International$6,000Youth Development$3,256Education$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROOF ABOVE INC: $41,128 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMID-SOUTH FOOD BANK: $35,256 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Health Connection Inc: $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCrisis Assistance Ministry: $34,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD CARE RESOURCES INC: $33,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLOTTE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $22,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCare Ring Inc: $19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA MCLEAN COUNTY: $5,128 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE ERIE INK: $3,256 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetA WIDER CIRCLE INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON THREADS PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds ROOF ABOVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MID-SOUTH FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Teen Health Connection Inc ↗
  • Who funds Crisis Assistance Ministry ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CARE RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds CHARLOTTE COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Care Ring Inc ↗
  • Who funds MedAssist of Mecklenburg DBA NC Medassist ↗
  • Who funds YWCA MCLEAN COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE INK ↗
  • Who funds A WIDER CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMON THREADS PROJECT ↗

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.

United Way of Greater…Foundation for the Ca…Duke Energy FoundationSt Peters Hospital Fo…Healthy Charlotte All…Philip L Van Every Fo…Merancas Foundation I…The Leon Levine Found…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Charities Aid Foundat…Fidelity Investments …
United Way of Greater Charlotte IncNC15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas · Duke Energy Foundation · St Peters Hospital Foundation Inc · Healthy Charlotte Alliance Inc · Philip L Van Every Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · The Leon Levine Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • A Wider Circle Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 26 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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