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Lincoln Legacy Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.4M
Granted FY2023
12
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$780kCommunity Improvement$766kHuman Services$95kHealth$39kPublic Benefit$31kYouth Development$30kEducation$29kCrime & Legal$26kOther$0
02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k5 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $514k
  • $250k+2 grants · $892k
$64,138
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PAUL PHILLIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 11%CLINTON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $2k → 11%PAUL PHILLIPE RESOURCE CENTER: $1k → 11%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $880 → 10%BROWN COUNTY COMMUNITY YMCA: $860 → 10%CLINTON COUNTY FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 11%FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY: $1k → 5%STRIDES FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 5%STRIDES FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY: $2k → 5%STRIDES FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 5%STRIDES FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 5%STRIDES FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY: $2k → 5%STRIDES FOR SUCCESS: $2k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY: $1k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY: $1k → 5%FAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY: $1k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $3k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $3k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $3k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $3k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $3k → 5%SHELTERING WINGS: $3k → 5%HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 5%HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 5%HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 5%HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 5%HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 5%HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES: $2k → 5%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.
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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$568k · 44 repeat orgs$732k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
26

Total granted

$568k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+16%

Still filing today

34%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $711k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • The Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc
    6× · 2017–2022 · $26k · revenue +97%
  • KINGSWAY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $24k · revenue +201%
  • SHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $18k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF PLAINFIELD FBO
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • FC
    Franklin College of Indianagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +36%
  • FH
    FRANKFORT HIGH SCHOOL HONORS
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Perry County Development Corp

Promote development in Perry County, Indiana

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2
Muncie-Delaware County Chamber of Commerce

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.

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3
Leadership Indianapolis Inc

Educate, Inspire, Connect and Mobilize Community Leaders to serve and strengthen greater Indianapolis.

Public Benefit
4
The Jackson County United Way Inc

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.

Philanthropy
5
Clinton County Community Action Program

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.

—
6
Community Center of Hope Inc

Identify, organize and facilitate programs and services for improving the quality of life of hope, indiana and the surrounding area.

Recreation & Sports
7
Southern Indiana Community Health Care

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…

Health
8
Mchenry County Economic Development Corporaton

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

—
9
Lincoln Hills Development Corporation

Reducing poverty to improve lives and communities in southern indiana.

Human Services
10
Hope Community Development Corporation of 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

Housing & Shelter
11
United Way of Clinton County Iowa

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.

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12
Community Action of East Central Indiana

To provide education and assistance to low income, disadvantaged individuals and children.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johnson County Community Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 74 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
22/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATI: $564,322 · OtherHENDRICKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATICLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $187,667 · OtherCLINTON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT: $147,081 · OtherMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDAT+52 more: $243,520 · Other+52 moreJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $574,502 · PhilanthropyJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION…+2 more: $14,890 · PhilanthropySHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesHENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesSTRIDES TO SUCCESS INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesPAUL PHILLIPPE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $4,630 · Human ServicesCORE Community Center: $2,500 · Human Services+1 more: $1,740 · Human ServicesLEADERSHIP JOHNSON COUNTY INC: $18,500 · EducationHENDRICKS COLLEGE NETWORK: $12,000 · EducationFranklin College of Indiana: $1,500 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc: $25,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF: $3,020 · Youth DevelopmentKINGSWAY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $23,500 · Health+1 more: $500 · HealthLEADERSHIP HENDRICKS COUNTY: $12,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,142,590Philanthropy$589,392Human Services$58,870Education$33,000Youth Development$28,520Health$24,000Arts & Culture$12,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHNSON COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $574,502 over 7y, 11% of budgetThe Hendricks County Child Advocacy Center Inc: $25,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKINGSWAY COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $23,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSHELTERING WINGS CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMONTGOMERY COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $13,890 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC: $12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTRIDES TO SUCCESS INC: $12,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLEADERSHIP HENDRICKS COUNTY: $12,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHENDRICKS COLLEGE NETWORK: $12,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF HENDRICKS COUNTY INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFRANKFORT MAIN STREET INC: $7,300 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetPAUL PHILLIPPE RESOURCE CENTER INC: $4,630 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF CLINTON COUNTY INC: $4,540 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF: $3,020 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCORE Community Center: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN COUNTY YMCA INC: $1,740 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFranklin College of Indiana: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrownsburg Education Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPlainfield Youth Assistance Program: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOACH KIDS OF CLINTON COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPEN DOOR HEALTH CLINIC INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 HENDRICKS COUNTY SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds STRIDES TO SUCCESS INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADERSHIP HENDRICKS COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds HENDRICKS COLLEGE NETWORK ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Hendricks County Comm…Duke Energy FoundationCommunity Foundation …United Way of Central…Central Indiana Commu…Indiana University He…Lilly Endowment IncUnited Way for Clinto…North Central Health …Sia Foundation IncThe Smithville Charit…Land O'Lakes Foundati…
Hendricks County Community Foundation IncIN28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Lincoln Legacy Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Lincoln Legacy 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.

    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 74 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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