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Lyndhurst Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
142
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$6.1MEnvironment$6.1MArts & Culture$5.9MHousing & Shelter$3.5MEducation$2.1MRecreation & Sports$1.8MHuman Services$722kHealth$655kOther$0
02FY2024 · 142 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k55 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $893k
  • $50k–250k42 grants · $3.9M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.1M
$16,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$125M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHA Charitable Benefit Corporation$750,000
CNE$500,000
Individual grant recipient$325,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
Trust for Public Land-TN Office$250,000
Individual grant recipient$236,500
CNE$225,000
River City Company$200,000
Tivoli Theatre Foundation$200,000
City of Chatt-Transportation Dept$200,000
ArtsBuild$170,000
Public Education Fdn$150,000
ArtsBuild$140,000
Austin Hatcher Foundation$125,000
Chatt Audubon Society Inc$115,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $850k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A Step Ahead Foundation: $75k → 14%A Step Ahead Foundation: $75k → 14%A Step Ahead Foundation: $75k → 14%A Step Ahead Foundation: $75k → 14%A Step Ahead Foundation: $2k → 14%Net Resource Foundation: $12k → 12%Purpose Point Community Resource Center: $100k → 12%Help Right Here: $35k → 12%Help Right Here: $20k → 12%Help Right Here: $500 → 12%La Paz Chattanooga: $150k → 12%La Paz Chattanooga: $100k → 12%La Paz Chattanooga: $100k → 12%Help Right Here: $20k → 12%La Paz Chattanooga: $10k → 12%Help Right Here: $100 → 12%La Paz Chattanooga: $52 → 12%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
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 121 repeat orgs$4.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

121 repeat relationships: 75 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
82

Total granted

$25M
$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
0%

Still filing today

60%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TR
    THE RIVERCITY COMPANY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +58% · 26% of their budget
  • OS
    OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2.2M · revenue +297% · 41% of their budget
  • A
    ARTSBUILD
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +166%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $326k · revenue -9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $125k
  • MM
    MEDICOS MISSION FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $120k · revenue -9%
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
Chattanooga Technology Council Inc

Our mission is to connect chattanooga's technology sector to drive regional economic growth.

Community Improvement
2
Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville Inc

Arts & business council of greater nashville supports and promotes the arts by driving collaboration between arts and business that contribute to the creativity, vitality, and prosperity of greater nashville/the regions/the city.

Crime & Legal
3
Carter Street Corporation

Encourage economic development

Community Improvement
4
The Urbanart Commission

The mission of the urbanart commission is to create opportunities for artists and neighborhoods to connect and shape spaces through public art.

Arts & Culture
5
Nashville Public Radio

Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.

Arts & Culture
6
Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition Inc

To advocate for people who are homless or near homeless, strategically planning for housing and services in the community, maximizing resources and collaboarating with community partners to implement housing and services within the…

Community Improvement
7
Invest Chattanooga

Invest chattanooga uses flexible, low-cost capital and strategic public-private partnerships to produce financially sustainable, mixed-income housing with deep permanent affordability that the market alone cannot deliver.

Housing & Shelter
8
Chattanooga Chamber Foundation

Education regarding matters of public concern to improve the quality and increase the quantity of economic growth and employment opportunities.

Philanthropy
9
Tennessee Performing Arts Center (Tpac) Management Corporation

To provide facilities, services, and programs of the highest quality for the greatest benefit of the people, institutions, and communities of the state, and to take a leadership role in fostering the performing arts, arts education,…

Arts & Culture
10
Harpeth Conservancy

To restore and protect clean water and healthy ecosystems for rivers in tennessee by employing scientific expertise and collaborative relationships to develop, promote, and support broad community stewardship and action.

Environment
11
Tennessee Clean Water Network

To identify, prevent, and remedy water pollution statewide through a network of allies and resources.

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12
Creative Works

Creative works is organized to accelerate cultural and economic change by focusing on connecting, inspiring and educating the memphis creative community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc; the most unlike its peers is Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation. 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

135 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 135 of the 244 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/135
Grantees still filing
82/135
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CNE: $2,267,500 · OtherCNETrust for Public Land-TN Office: $1,331,400 · OtherTrust for Public Land-TN OfficeIndividual grant recipient: $877,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $474,600 · Other+114 more: $6,597,311 · Other+114 moreARTSBUILD: $1,400,100 · Arts & CultureARTSBUILDTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $950,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TIVOLI THEATRE…RISE CHATTANOOGA: $495,300 · Arts & CultureRISE CHATTANOOGATHE POP-UP PROJECT: $285,050 · Arts & CultureTHE POP-UP PROJECTSOUNDCORPS INC: $270,150 · Arts & CultureSOUNDCORPS INCCOLAB: $250,000 · Arts & CultureSPLASH: $165,100 · Arts & Culture+20 more: $1,063,600 · Arts & Culture+20 moreTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY: $2,264,000 · Community ImprovementTHE RIVERCITY COM…CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO: $1,005,000 · Community ImprovementCHATTANOOGA DESIG…LAUNCH INC: $510,000 · Community ImprovementLAUNCH INCBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER: $410,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDING & CONSTR…THE CHATTERY: $267,750 · Community ImprovementTHE CHATTERY+4 more: $255,000 · Community Improvement+4 moreOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $2,200,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTI…GREENSPACES INC: $650,100 · EnvironmentGREENSPACES INCTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $470,800 · EnvironmentTHE LAND TRUST F…THE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC: $281,152 · EnvironmentTHE TENNESSEE RI…PAINT ROCK FOREST RESEARCH CENTER: $150,000 · Environment+9 more: $618,630 · Environment+9 moreCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $947,030 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $347,950 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $326,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $283,023 · EducationELLA LIBRARY: $90,200 · EducationAUSTIN PEAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $90,000 · Education+14 more: $289,250 · EducationCHA CHARITABLE BENEFIT CORPORATION: $750,000 · PhilanthropyThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $398,805 · PhilanthropyAUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER: $128,500 · PhilanthropyCHATTANOOGA CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $48,590 · Philanthropy+3 more: $39,600 · PhilanthropyLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $360,052 · Human ServicesA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $302,000 · Human ServicesPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesHELP RIGHT HERE: $75,600 · Human Services+1 more: $12,000 · Human Services
Other$11,547,811Arts & Culture$4,879,300Community Improvement$4,711,750Environment$4,370,682Education$2,373,453Philanthropy$1,365,495Human Services$849,652

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE RIVERCITY COMPANY: $2,264,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC: $2,200,000 over 3y, 41% of budgetARTSBUILD: $1,400,100 over 5y, 18% of budgetCHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO: $1,005,000 over 4y, 78% of budgetTHE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $950,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND: $947,030 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCHA CHARITABLE BENEFIT CORPORATION: $750,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetGREENSPACES INC: $650,100 over 5y, 16% of budgetLAUNCH INC: $510,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetRISE CHATTANOOGA: $495,300 over 3y, 79% of budgetTHRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $474,600 over 4y, 27% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC: $470,800 over 5y, 8.3% of budgetBUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER: $410,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc: $398,805 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC: $362,140 over 5y, 15% of budgetLA PAZ DE DIOS INC: $360,052 over 4y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC: $347,950 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC: $326,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetA STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC: $302,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetTHE POP-UP PROJECT: $285,050 over 5y, 33% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION: $283,023 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC: $281,152 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSOUNDCORPS INC: $270,150 over 5y, 25% of budgetTHE CHATTERY: $267,750 over 5y, 29% of budgetCOLAB: $250,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetChattanooga Cares Inc: $245,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChattanooga Area Food Bank Inc: $188,950 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPLASH: $165,100 over 5y, 19% of budgetScenic Dade Development Company: $160,000 over 2y, 55% of budgetPAINT ROCK FOREST RESEARCH CENTER: $150,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetSOUTHEAST COMMUNITY CAPITAL CORPORATION D/B/A PATHWAY LENDING: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTENNGREEN LAND CONSERVANCY: $150,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetCHAMBLISS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $150,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE ENTERPRISE CENTER INC: $145,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE BESSIE SMITH CULTURAL CENTER: $142,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetLOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY: $135,650 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHICKAMAUGA AND CHATTANOOGA NATIONAL MILITARY PARK: $135,225 over 3y, 35% of budgetAUSTIN HATCHER FOUNDATION FOR PEDIATRIC CANCER: $128,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMEDICOS MISSION FUND: $120,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetATHENS AREA COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS: $118,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CHATTANOOGA: $111,431 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPURPOSE POINT COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTHE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN CLIMBERS COALITION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHATTANOOGA SYMPHONY & OPERA ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSCENIC CITY CLAY ARTS: $92,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetGIRLS INC OF CHATTANOOGA: $92,100 over 4y, 2.7% 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 THE RIVERCITY COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTSBUILD ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGA DESIGN STUDIO ↗
  • Who funds THE TIVOLI THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHATTANOOGAHAMILTON COUNTY PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds CHA CHARITABLE BENEFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENSPACES INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUNCH INC ↗
  • Who funds RISE CHATTANOOGA ↗
  • Who funds THRIVE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAND TRUST FOR TENNESSEE INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING & CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds LA PAZ DE DIOS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CHATTANOOGA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds A STEP AHEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POP-UP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TENNESSEE RIVER GORGE TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUNDCORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHATTERY ↗
  • Who funds COLAB ↗
  • Who funds Chattanooga Cares Inc ↗
  • Who funds Chattanooga Area Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds SPLASH ↗
  • Who funds Scenic Dade Development Company ↗
  • Who funds PAINT ROCK FOREST RESEARCH CENTER ↗

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.

Robert F Stone Founda…Benwood Foundation IncThe Community Foundat…Footprint Foundation …Chattanooga Christian…The Maclellan Foundat…Riverview Foundation …McKenzie Foundation D…Hamico IncWeldon F Osborne Foun…Hazel Montague Hutche…George R Johnson Fami…
Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone FoundationDE113.7× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robert F Stone Foundation AKA Bobby Stone Foundation · Benwood Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Greater Chattanooga Inc · Footprint Foundation Inc · Chattanooga Christian Community Foundation · The Maclellan Foundation Inc · Riverview Foundation Inc · McKenzie Foundation D/B/A the McKenzie Foundation · Hamico Inc · Weldon F Osborne Foundation Inc · Hazel Montague Hutcheson Foundation · George R Johnson Family 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 Lyndhurst Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lyndhurst Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
47report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Lyndhurst Foundation Inc 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 244 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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