How much did LINCOLN LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC grant in FY2023?

Education$5.2MHuman Services$475kPhilanthropy$461kYouth Development$192kArts & Culture$175kRecreation & Sports$137kCommunity Improvement$24kPublic Benefit$12kOther$233k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

artsstrengthen culturalprofessionalpark

2020

professional

2021

—

2022

sectioncode

2023

—

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $16k
$10k–50k4 grants · $136k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$68M

Total assets

Largest grants

UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY$60,000
BEAVER COUNTY EDUCATIONAL TRUST$45,000
MARS HOME FOR YOUTH FOUNDATION$40,125
GREATER MIDLAND SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDAT$30,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR FREE ENTERPRISE$21,120
THE CENTER MIDLAND$8,000
FOCALPOINTK12 INC$7,500

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 (FY18–23, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. 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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.1M · 13 repeat orgs$745k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.1M

$738k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

+37%

Still filing today

77%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

UW
UNITED WAY OF BEAVER COUNTY
6× · 2018–2023 · $339k · revenue +29%
LP
LINCOLN PARK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
3× · 2018–2020 · $160k · revenue +89%
AC
ACH CLEAR PATHWAYS
2× · 2018–2019 · $100k · revenue +618%

Funded once

HP
HEKIMA PLACEgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +59%
LA
LEOPARD ATHLETICS INC
one grant, 2022 · $137k · 100% of their budget
PS
PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2018 · $50k

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.

Lead Pa

Cultivating the next generation of progressive leaders across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania Institute of Technology

To provide student success by offering the best collegiate education.

Education

Propel Charter School-Montour

Charter school in western Pennsylvania for students grades Kindergarten to Twelfth. Propel's mission is to catalyze the transformation of public education so that all children have access to

Education

Penn Hills Library

A welcoming community center that provides information and equitable access to space, collections, materials, programs and services that enrich the quality of life and facilitate lifelong learning.

Education

Pennsylvania College of Art & Design

Pennsylvania college of art & design is a professional art college offering a bfa degree, certificates, credentials, and curricula that enable students of all ages to pursue art as their life's work.

Education

Urban Pathways 6-12 Charter School

Charter school providing education to students from sixth through twelfth grade.

Education

Propel Charter School-McKeesport

Charter school for students in grades Kindergarten through Eighth. Propel's mission is to catalyze the transformation of public education so that all children have access to

Education

Pennsylvania Women Work

Pa women work empowers women to prepare for and find lasting employment that pays a family-sustaining wage. the mission of the organization is to transform womens lives through empowerment, employment and economic independence.

Human Services

Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse

Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse inspires creativity, conservation, and community engagement through reuse.

Arts & Culture

Propel Schools Inc

Charter school for students in grades Kindergarten through Twelfth. Propel's mission is to catalyze the transformation of public education

Education

Beaver County Regional Council of Governments

Community Development through Intergovernmental cooperation and education

Public Benefit

Catapult Greater Pittsburgh

Catapult engages in connecting families to emergency resources, peer to peer support, wealth building, trauma informed financial counseling & policy advocacy to ensure that communities can meaningfully achieve economic justice & lead…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Beaver County Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/32

the rest of the field

772/11,940

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.

05the grantee network

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

23/23

Grantees still filing

13/23

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$5,161,889Human Services$475,200Philanthropy$460,920Other$269,400Youth Development$191,800Arts & Culture$175,160Recreation & Sports$136,632

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.

The Pittsburgh FoundationPA24.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern · Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation · Nisource Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation 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.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEOPARD ATHLETICS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 872534978 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEOPARD ATHLETICS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Lincoln Learning Solutions Inc?

Find your warmest path to Lincoln Learning Solutions Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LINCOLN LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lincoln Learning Solutions Inc?

More from the funding graph

LINCOLN LEARNING SOLUTIONS INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

23 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Lincoln Learning Solutions Inc?

More from the funding graph