· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $48k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PURDUE FARM HOUSE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $13,000 |
| PURDUE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHERN IL FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| GARFIELD FARM | $5,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,300 |
| CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $500 |
| MERCY HOME | $485 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $100 |
| ST JOSEPHS INDIAN SCHOOL | $50 |
| DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS | $10 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PFPurdue Farmhouse Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $188k · revenue +36% · 39% of their budget
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +145%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $5k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- TCThe Cradle Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +44%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- EMEISENHOWER MUSEUMone grant, 2024 · $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.
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.
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
We will cure ms while empowering people affected by ms to live their best lives.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
To empower and support school nutrition professionals in advancing the accessibility, quality and integrity of school nutrition programs.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Shriners children's is committed to compassionate, high-quality care that improves children's lives, in a family-centered and collaborative environment. (continued on schedule o)
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Purdue Farmhouse Foundation ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds The Cradle Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AARP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL LAKE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lindley Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lindley Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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