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Lindholm Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$198kHealth$191kReligion$190kCivil Rights$84kHuman Services$72kArts & Culture$66kSocial Science$12kEducation$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $91k
$7,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION HOSPITAL$35,000
GODSPEAK CALVARY CHAPEL CHURCH$15,000
JDRF DIABETES FOUNDATION$11,000
JUDICAL WATCH$10,000
CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POLICY CENTER$10,000
BETA FOSTER CARE$10,000
PADRE FOUNDATION FOR DIABETES$7,500
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION$5,000
PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE$5,000
UCI FOUNDATION$1,500
TEACH BEYOND$1,200
CRIME SURVIVORS$1,000
PRAGER U$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $39k) 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%CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $20k → 10%CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $10k → 10%CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $6k → 10%CALIFORNIA PUBLIC POLICY CENTER: $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

WA
IL
MA
IN
OH
CA
CO
VA
AZ
DC
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$797k · 22 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
17

Total granted

$797k
$61k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+19%

Still filing today

55%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthReligionPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther
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

  • MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
    8× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +51%
  • LM
    LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $55k · revenue +757%
  • CP
    CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER
    4× · 2017–2024 · $39k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • LN
    LAGUNA NIGUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · $20k
  • CF
    CHOC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +35%
  • CF
    CLASSICS FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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
International Republican Institute

Iri advances freedom and democracy worldwide by developing political parties, civic institutions, open elections, democratic governance and the rule of law.

Education
2
Claremont Graduate University

Claremont Graduate University prepares individuals to be leaders for positive change in the world. Unique in its transdisciplinary approach, the University is dedicated to the creation, dissemination, and application of new knowledge and…

Education
3
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
4
Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion
5
Aclu Foundation of Arizona

The mission of the aclu foundation of arizona is to defend and preserve, through litigation and public education, individual rights and freedoms guaranteed to all by the constitution and the laws of the united states and arizona.

Civil Rights
6
American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia

Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.

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7
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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8
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
9
Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
Frontiers of Freedom Institute

To educate the public on constitutional issues and public policy matters. We are dedicated to the principles of individual liberty, peace through strength, limited government, free enterprise, and the values embodied in the Declaration of…

Public Benefit
12
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

27 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. 27 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BETA FOSTER CARE: $71,000 · OtherBETA FOSTER CAREGODSPEAK CALVARY CHAPEL CHURCH: $43,000 · OtherGODSPEAK CALVARY CHAPEL CHURCHTURNING POINT USA: $40,300 · OtherTURNING POINT USAJDRF: $31,100 · OtherJDRFJDRF DIABETES FOUNDATION: $31,000 · OtherJDRF DIABETES FOUNDATIONAMERICAN RENEWAL PROJECT: $26,000 · OtherAMERICAN RENEWAL PROJECTPADRE FOUNDATION FOR DIABETES: $25,000 · OtherPADRE FOUNDATION FOR DIABETESLAGUNA NIGUEL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $39,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER+15 more: $53,150 · Other+15 moreJESUS WAY INC: $87,000 · ReligionJESUS WAY INCREASONS TO BELIEVE: $35,000 · ReligionREASONS TO BELIE…+2 more: $4,000 · ReligionMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $105,000 · HealthMISSION HOSPITA…CHOC FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthLINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE: $60,000 · EducationLINCOLN CLUB…THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $25,000 · EducationTHE RONALD R…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $4,500 · Education+2 more: $2,870 · EducationPacific Justice Institute: $37,500 · Civil RightsOBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $19,875 · Civil RightsLINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $35,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $4,000 · Public BenefitFOR KIDS AND COUNTRY INC: $3,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$379,550Religion$126,000Health$117,000Education$92,370Civil Rights$57,375Arts & Culture$55,000Public Benefit$43,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: $105,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJESUS WAY INC: $87,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetBETA FOSTER CARE: $71,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE: $60,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetLINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $55,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER: $39,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetPacific Justice Institute: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetREASONS TO BELIEVE: $35,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $19,875 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLex Rex Institute: $5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR KIDS AND COUNTRY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTHE GOOD CALL MINISTRIES INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChurch United: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAGUNA NIGUEL MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBARRY GOLDWATER INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDefense Orientation Conference Association: $400 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 MISSION HOSPITAL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JESUS WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds BETA FOSTER CARE ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN CLUB INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
  • Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds REASONS TO BELIEVE ↗
  • Who funds THE RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION AND INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds OBRIA MEDICAL CLINICS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
  • Who funds Lex Rex Institute ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT VERITAS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Leadership Institute ↗
  • Who funds FOR KIDS AND COUNTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD CALL MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FREE NOW FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Church United ↗
  • Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CRIME SURVIVORS INC DBA CRIME SURVIVORS RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LAGUNA NIGUEL MILITARY SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…It Takes a Family Fou…Donors Trust IncSgt Mark Antonowitsch…Gatherer Family Found…Christian Foundation …Christian Community F…Natl Christian Charit…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…
Orange County Community FoundationCA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · It Takes a Family Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Sgt Mark Antonowitsch Foundation · Gatherer Family Foundation · Christian Foundation of America DBA Christian Foundation of The West · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Lindholm Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lindholm Foundation 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 44 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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