· Public charity
Lincoln Learning Solutions Inc
The mission of lincoln learning solutions(lls) is to empower learning communities by providing them with products, strategies and services aligned with proven educational practices.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $143,645 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $152,045 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,400 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY | $65,425 |
| BEAVER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL TRUST | $50,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE | $11,120 |
| MCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $11,000 |
| THE CENTER MIDLAND | $6,100 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $515k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LPLincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School4× · 2017–2020 · $6.2M · revenue +6%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +29%
- LPLINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER4× · 2017–2020 · $160k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- HPHEKIMA PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +59%
- LALEOPARD ATHLETICS INCone grant, 2022 · $137k · revenue -98% · 100% of their budget
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $50k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Our mission is to embrace a diverse student body and student success through an innovative an innovative curriculum, the cultivation of environmental stewardship, and accountability.
Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.
Charter school for students in grades Kindergarten through Eighth. Propels mission is to catalyze the transformation of public education so that all children have access.
To provide educational, informational, cultural, and recreational services to the public. services are provided in bethlehem, pennsylvania and its supporting communities.
Charter school in western Pennsylvania for students grades Kindergarten to Twelfth. Propels mission is to catalyze the transformation of public education so that all children have access.
Community Development through Intergovernmental cooperation and education
To provide an academically challenging, knowledge-based curriculum, individually designed for each child's needs.
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
To provide companion services to individuals with special needs.
The goal of Pennsylvania Steam Academy is to make education fun, engaging and significantly streghthen the city and the region with an innovative approach to education
A charter school for k-5 whose mission is to help every child find a pathway to a successful adult life in the city and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baden Academy Charter School and the most unlike its peers is Carnegie Free Library. 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.
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 19 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter School ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Beaver County Educational Trust ↗
- Who funds HEKIMA PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ACH Clear Pathways ↗
- Who funds LEOPARD ATHLETICS INC ↗
- Who funds MCGUIRE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CLARKS SUMMIT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Lan Vwa Inc ↗
- Who funds TRAILS Ministries ↗
- Who funds The Cornerstone of Beaver County ↗
- Who funds CENTER IN MIDLAND PA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE PREVENTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds BADEN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE FREE LIBRARY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · Michael Baker International Foundation · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The Wright Promise · Staunton Farm Foundation 540-054 Dba Staunton Farm Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Learning Solutions 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.
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.
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