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The Frances and Craig Lindner Foundation at a glance

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The Frances and Craig Lindner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$741k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Religion$8.5MHuman Services$6.6MHealth$6.1MArts & Culture$2.7MEducation$1.5MEmployment$470kPhilanthropy$345kAnimals$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+2 grants · $525k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH$275,000
JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$250,000
UNITED WAY OF GREATER CINCINNATI$50,000
CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
ENSWORTH SCHOOL$25,000
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE TRUST$25,000
ARTSWAVE$25,000
CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI OHIO INC$20,000
LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC$20,000
TAFT MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
THE STORE$10,000
NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES MASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL$2,500
CHRIST HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$2,000
INTERNATIONAL ESSENTIAL TREMOR FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WOMEN'S SUPPORT SERVICES INCORPORATED: $5k → 9%LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC: $25k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $25k → 16%LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC: $20k → 11%CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI OHIO INC: $20k → 16%LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC: $20k → 11%THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF CINCINNATI: $1k → 16%LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC: $15k → 11%LIFE LEARNING CENTER INC: $15k → 11%THE STORE: $10k → 14%LADD INC: $25k → 16%LADD INC: $25k → 16%PARTNERS FOR MEDICAL RELIEF: $5k → 16%PARTNERS FOR MEDICAL RELIEF: $5k → 16%PARTNERS FOR MEDICAL RELIEF: $3k → 16%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

NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
KY
KS
TN
SC
DC
HI
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 26 repeat orgs$649k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
26

Total granted

$26M
$611k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+26%

Still filing today

85%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationHealthEnvironmentOther
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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $4.2M · revenue +30%
  • JF
    JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +115%
  • FT
    FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $113k · revenue +3%
  • ES
    ELIZABETH'S SMILE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $110k · revenue -96%
  • MU
    Miami University Foundation
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +14%
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
Cincinnati Zoo Foundation Inc

Perform fundraising functions, provide financial support, carryout the purpose and otherwise operating for the benefit of the zoological society of cincinnati.

Animals
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
The Greater Cincinnati Foundation

As a trusted and connected partner, we inspire generous people to invest in a more equitable and vibrant region now and for generations to come.

Philanthropy
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Cincinnati Museum Center

Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.

Arts & Culture
6
Indiana University Foundation

The Indiana University Foundation (IUF) maximizes private philanthropic support for Indiana University by fostering lifelong relationships with key stakeholders and providing advancement leadership and fundraising services for (Continued…

Education
7
Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Inc

To advance florida gulf coast university and its students by promoting the institution, securing philanthropy to support the needs of the university, managing and administering assets with a long term perspective, and providing resources…

Education
8
Museum of American Finance

Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…

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9
Philanthropy Ohio

To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.

Philanthropy
10
The University of Toledo Foundation

The mission of the university of toledo foundation is to secure the future for the university of toledo, through prudent asset management and philanthropy. we build strong linkages between alumni and the university, fostering a spirit of…

Education
11
United Way of Greater Cincinnati Foundation

The UWGC Foundation provides a flexible vehicle to perpetuate financial support of UWGC, its initiatives, its agencies, and the human services they provide.

Philanthropy
12
Cincinnati Usa Regional Chamber

To grow the vibrancy and economic prosperity of the cincinnati region.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Cincinnati Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Turner Farm Preservation Foundation 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

48 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. 48 of the 58 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
37/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LINDNER CENTER OF HOPE: $13,910,013 · OtherLINDNER CENTER OF HOPEHORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH: $1,442,242 · OtherHORIZON COMMUNITY CHURCH+24 more: $1,352,946 · Other+24 moreTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $4,200,447 · PhilanthropyTHE UNIVERSITY OF C…United Way of Greater Cincinnati: $300,055 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Great…+5 more: $86,700 · PhilanthropyJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,396,517 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENN…FORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $1,131,005 · Arts & CultureFORD'S THEA…FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $112,505 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $62,500 · Arts & CultureThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $627,065 · HealthCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $400,042 · HealthELIZABETH'S SMILE FOUNDATION: $110,000 · Health+2 more: $13,500 · HealthOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $840,498 · EducationCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $80,075 · EducationMiami University Foundation: $50,000 · EducationTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $40,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationLife Learning Center Inc: $95,000 · Human ServicesLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $46,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS FOR MEDICAL RELIEF: $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE STORE INC: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $66,500 · Animals+1 more: $1,000 · Animals
Other$16,705,201Philanthropy$4,587,202Arts & Culture$2,702,527Health$1,150,607Education$1,020,573Human Services$218,500Animals$67,500

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 budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI FOUNDATION: $4,200,447 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $1,396,517 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFORD'S THEATRE SOCIETY: $1,131,005 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetOHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $840,498 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christ Hospital Foundation: $627,065 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $400,042 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCELERATE GREAT SCHOOLS: $400,033 over 2y, 43% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Cincinnati: $300,055 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $260,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $120,050 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $112,505 over 1y, 11% of budgetELIZABETH'S SMILE FOUNDATION: $110,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetLife Learning Center Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $80,075 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetINTEGRATIVE MEDICINE FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetNASHVILLE ZOO INC: $66,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMiami University Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCINCINNATI USA REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLiving Arrangements for the Developmentally Disabled Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDress for Success Cincinnati: $50,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLITTLE FORK FAMILY ADVOCACY CENTER INC: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetThe Children's Home of Cincinnati Ohio: $46,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ENSWORTH SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCincinnati Institute of Fine Arts: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAFT MUSEUM OF ART: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $19,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS FOR MEDICAL RELIEF: $12,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $11,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER CINCINNATI: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTURNER FARM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT SAGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JEFF RUBY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BAY COUNCIL NAVY LEAGUE OF THE UNITED STATES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Cincinnati Ballet Company Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDANNY & RONS RESCUE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Essential Tremor Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI NATURE CENTER: $300 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.

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.

The Greater Cincinnat…Farmer Family Foundat…Robert H & Susan F Ca…Horizon Community Fun…Hcs FoundationCarol Ann and Ralph V…The Thomas J Emery Me…Johnson Charitable Gi…The Bahl Family Found…The Carl H and Edyth …The Wyler Family Foun…Millstone Fund
The Greater Cincinnati FoundationOH26.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Cincinnati Foundation · Farmer Family Foundation · Robert H & Susan F Castellini Foundation · Horizon Community Funds of Northern Kentucky · Hcs Foundation · Carol Ann and Ralph V Haile Jr Foundation · The Thomas J Emery Memorial · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · The Bahl Family Foundation · The Carl H and Edyth B Lindner Foundation · The Wyler Family Foundation · Millstone Fund

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 The Frances and Craig Lindner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Frances and Craig Lindner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 The Frances and Craig Lindner 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 58 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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