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Lindisfarne Foundation at a glance

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Lindisfarne Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$427k
Granted FY2019
5
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$405k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$407kEducation$35kInternational$25kHealth$6kAnimals$1kEnvironment$700Food & Nutrition$500Public Benefit$500Other$0
02FY2019 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k3 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $250k+1 grant · $405k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR-ADVISED FUND$404,737
REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$14,700
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$2,000
PUBLIC SQUARE$500
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PUBLIC SQUARE: $500 → 14%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: $1k → 17%HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 14%REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%HUMANE SOCIETY: $500 → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $10k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $10k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $1k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 14%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $2k → 14%COMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $500 → 14%FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA: $500 → 14%AHA SANTA BARBARA: $250 → 14%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $100 → 14%SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER: $100 → 14%SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS' FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$51k · 6 repeat orgs$425k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2019, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$51k
$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+89%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
InternationalEnvironmentAnimalsPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • DIRECT RELIEF
    2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +94%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1k · revenue +46%
  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $200 · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -27%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +89%
  • FO
    Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +58%
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
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
2
Food & Water Watch

Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…

Food & Nutrition
3
Behavior Analyst Certification Board Inc

We protect consumers of behavior analysis services by systematically establishing, promoting, and disseminating professional standards.

Employment
4
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
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
The California Business Roundtable

The california business roundtable is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization composed of chief executive officers of leading california businesses. since 1976, the roundtable has provided essential leadership on high-priority public policy…

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9
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
10
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
11
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
12
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals Inc. 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

9 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. 9 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR-ADVISED FUND: $404,737 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR-ADVISED FUNDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA REGENTS: $20,000 · Other+4 more: $20,950 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $22,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 · InternationalSANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $2,600 · PhilanthropyHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $500 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $200 · EnvironmentFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$445,687International$25,000Philanthropy$2,600Animals$1,000Environment$700Food & Nutrition$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA VINTNERS FOUNDATION: $2,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLICSQUARE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $200 over 2y, 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%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 · 0–50%
    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 Lindisfarne Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Lindisfarne 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 14 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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