Illinois · Private foundation
Lindley Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $115k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,300
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations Lindley Family Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $115k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $111k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $135k | 4% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $114k | 12% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $143k | 44% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $100k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $97k | 32% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First United Methodist Church | $402,200 | 9 | n/a |
| Purdue Farmhouse Foundation | $187,900 | 9 | 39% |
| The Salvation Army | $59,900 | 9 | n/a |
| Northern Illinois Food Bank | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $16,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels | $12,214 | 9 | 4% |
| The Cradle Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| First Church Inc | $5,550 | 2 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $4,900 | 7 | 0% |
| AARP Foundation | $2,071 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($274k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lindley Family Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
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About Lindley Family Charitable Foundation
- How much does Lindley Family Charitable Foundation give?
- Lindley Family Charitable Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $115,445 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Lindley Family Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Food & Nutrition (27%), Education (11%).
- Who are Lindley Family Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First United Methodist Church ($402k), Purdue Farmhouse Foundation ($188k), The Salvation Army ($60k).
- Does Lindley Family Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lindley Family Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Lindley Family Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Lindley Family Charitable Foundation based?
- Lindley Family Charitable Foundation is based in IL.
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