· Private foundation
Lincoln Legacy Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k5 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $514k
- $250k+2 grants · $892k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $550,252 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $342,225 |
| CLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $173,356 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT | $143,404 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $132,997 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $64,138 |
| HENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATI | $14,070 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,760 |
| CLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $4,441 |
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT | $3,677 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,407 |
| JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,645 |
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 (FY17–22, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 43 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $711k 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
The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +97%
KINGSWAY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +201%
SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF PLAINFIELD FBOone grant, 2019 · $3k
- FCFranklin College of Indianagraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%
- WCWE CAREone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Promote development in Perry County, Indiana
To be an action-oriented, visionary organization which will stimulate progress, foster economic growth and enhance individual opportunity to achieve a high quality of life for everyone.
Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.
Jackson county united way assesses needs, secures resources and strategically invests those resources to create lasting, measurable change in the areas of education, health and financial stability for all people in jackson county.
The mission of the organization is to prevent and alleviate poverty conditions and their causes among urban rural residents of the organization's service area.
Identify, organize and facilitate programs and services for improving the quality of life of hope, indiana and the surrounding area.
To provide high-quality, comprehensive, community-sensitive health care utilizing christ-oriented principles. rooted in our faith-driven values, sichc serves as a pillar for accessible, comprehensive care of the whole person and a catalyst…
To promote the economic health of mchenry county, il through retention, expansion and attraction of commerce and industry which is conducive to an optimal quality of life for its citizen
Reducing poverty to improve lives and communities in southern indiana.
The mission of The Hope Community Development Corporation is to develop faith, caring, and sustainable neighborhoods through quality affordable housing and diverse supportive services for residents
To provide leadership in our communities to 1) identify our most pressing human care needs, 2) to work together to direct the time, energy and resources towards addressing those needs to improve our quality of life.
To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Half Way Home. 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 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 74 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 JOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds KINGSWAY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP JOHNSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP HENDRICKS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HENDRICKS COLLEGE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKFORT MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds PAUL PHILLIPPE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF CLINTON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Half Way Home ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ↗
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: Hendricks County Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · Community Foundation of Howard County · United Way of Central Indiana Inc · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · Indiana University Health West Hospital Inc · Lilly Endowment Inc · United Way for Clinton County Inc · North Central Health Services Inc · Sia Foundation Inc · The Smithville Charitable Foundation Inc · Land O'Lakes 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 Legacy 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.
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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