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Lindsey E C for Lindsey Char Fd-Tr

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.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$49kEducation$44kHuman Services$34kPhilanthropy$32kArts & Culture$24kHealth$20kYouth Development$20kReligion$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$853k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,000
MERCER AREA LIBRARY$7,500
UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY$5,000
SHENANGO PRESBYTERIAN HOME$4,000
CHILDRENS CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY$4,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF MERCER$4,000
BETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$4,000
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$4,000
KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION$4,000
TRAILS END CONSERVANCY$1,750
COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE$1,750
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$600
SAVE THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION$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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GIRL SCOUTS OF MERCER: $4k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 13%BETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 22%THE SALVATION ARMY: $3k → 9%GIRL SCOUTS OF MERCER: $4k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 13%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $3k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 13%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $3k → 11%UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 13%UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 13%UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $5k → 13%CHILDRENS CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $4k → 13%CHILDRENS CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $4k → 13%CHILDRENS AID SOCIETY: $5k → 11%KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $4k → 13%KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $4k → 13%CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $3k → 13%CHILDRENS CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $3k → 13%KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $3k → 13%TRAILS END CONSERVANCY: $2k → 13%TRAILS END CONSERVANCY: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE: $2k → 13%COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE: $2k → 13%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $11k → 13%MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $9k → 13%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $9k → 13%MERCER AREA LIBRARY: $8k → 13%MERCER AREA LIBRARY: $8k → 13%MERCER AREA LIBRARY: $6k → 13%MERCER AREA LIBRARY: $6k → 13%MERCER AREA LIBRARY: $6k → 13%MERCER AREA LIBRARY: $6k → 13%MERCER COUNTRY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 13%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $6k → 13%MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6k → 13%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 13%CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $5k → 13%BETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $4k → 13%BRANDY SPRINGS PARK ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%BRANDY SPRINGS PARK ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%BRANDY SPRINGS PARK ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%BRANDY SPRINGS PARK ASSOCIATION: $2k → 13%SHENANGO PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $4k → 13%SHENANGO PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $4k → 13%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$252k · 23 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
6

Total granted

$252k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+178%

Still filing today

30%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24
HealthHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyInternationalMembership BenefitFood & 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

  • MA
    MERCER AREA LIBRARY INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +62%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY
    6× · 2018–2024 · $30k · revenue +103%
  • MC
    MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +241%

Funded once

  • BP
    BETHANY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
    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
Children's Aid Society of Mercer County

To provide information, counseling, and such services as may be appropriate to families or others in raising and nuturing children.

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2
Mercer County Family Support Organization

Provide support, education, and advocacy to families of children with emotional, behavioral, or mental health challenges.

Human Services
3
Meriter Health Services Inc

Meriter is dedicated to improving the health of the people and communities we serve.

Health
4
Regents of the Mercersburg College

At mercersburg academy we embrace the values of hard work, character, and community while learning to balance independence with interdependence and individual humility with collective pride. our students commit to a life of learning, seek…

Education
5
Meridian Health Services Corp

To help make our communities healthier through a focus on whole person health.

Health
6
Mercer Council On Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

Mercer council envisions a healthy, safe, and responsible community. to create pathways to reduce substance-related challenges through education, support, advocacy, and partnerships throughout our community.

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7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
8
Meriter Foundation Inc

Meriter foundation exists to raise and manage gifts in support of the programs and services that advance the mission of meriter hospital, inc.

Philanthropy
9
Community Action Partnership of Mercer County

The mission of the community action partnership of mercer county is to help people help themselves through leadership in community partnering that provides opportunities to live with decency and dignity.

Human Services
10
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
11
Mcpherson Chamber of Commerce

To work as an organization of individuals, businesses, and professionals to enhance the economic, civic, and cultural interests of the mcpherson area.

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12
Merakey Bucks County

Provide behavioral health and intellectual developmental disabilities services to children and adults in bucks county pa through community based and residential programs.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Warehouse of Mercer County; the most unlike its peers is Mercer Old Graveyard 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

11 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. 11 of the 30 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)
9/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCER AREA LIBRARY INC: $40,200 · OtherMERCER AREA LIBRARY INCMERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $21,400 · OtherMERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCKEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $18,800 · OtherKEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATIONGIRL SCOUTS OF MERCER: $11,600 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF MERCERSHENANGO PRESBYTERIAN HOME: $10,000 · OtherSHENANGO PRESBYTERIAN HOMEBRANDY SPRINGS PARK ASSOCIATION: $9,600 · OtherBRANDY SPRINGS PARK ASSOCIATIONBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $8,000 · Other+15 more: $44,400 · Other+15 moreCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $39,400 · Housing & ShelterCORNERSTONE YOUTH…UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $30,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF…+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $20,800 · HealthCHILDREN'…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,300 · HealthAMERICAN …Save The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 · InternationalMERCER OLD GRAVEYARD ASSOCIATION: $2,400 · Membership BenefitCOMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$164,000Housing & Shelter$39,400Philanthropy$31,000Health$22,100International$3,000Membership Benefit$2,400Food & Nutrition$500

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMERCER AREA LIBRARY INC: $40,200 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME: $39,400 over 5y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $21,400 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY: $20,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION: $18,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER OLD GRAVEYARD ASSOCIATION: $2,400 over 4y, 58% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY: $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 MERCER AREA LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE YOUTH HOME ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds MERCER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S CENTER OF MERCER COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds KEYSTONE BLIND ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERCER OLD GRAVEYARD ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND EASTERN OHIO ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD WAREHOUSE OF MERCER COUNTY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Buhl Regional Health …James Frances McCandl…Amazonsmile Foundation
Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern OhioPA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Buhl Regional Health Foundation · James Frances McCandless Trust · Amazonsmile 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 Lindsey E C for Lindsey Char Fd-Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lindsey E C for Lindsey Char Fd-Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 30 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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