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The Lincoln-Darst Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Lincoln-Darst Foundation Inc

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.

$244
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$244
Largest
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$8kInternational$5kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$1kAnimals$630Education$500Housing & Shelter$499Food & Nutrition$400Other$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$244
Median grant
1
States reached
$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
La Casita Center$244
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%Waves for Water: $513 → 14%UP for Women and Children: $499 → 15%Catholic Charities of Louisville: $494 → 15%Catholic Charities of Louisville: $400 → 15%La Casita Center: $244 → 15%Center for Women and Families: $543 → 15%Center for Women and Families: $250 → 15%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 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.

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Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
2
Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…

Human Services
3
Water for People

Water for people exists to develop high quality water and sanitation, accessible to all, and sustained by strong communities, businesses, and governments, working in ten countries; guatemala, honduras, tanzania, peru, bolivia, uganda,…

International
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(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.

International
5
National Women's Shelter Network Inc

Our mission is to advance the status of women,youth,children and families experiencing homelessness in our country, and the womens, youth and family shelters and safe havens that serve them, and end and prevent homelessness. we do so by:…

Housing & Shelter
6
Women's Rights Without Frontiers International

Women's rights without frontiers, international ("wrwf- or "the organization") is a nonprofit entity supporting the rights of women and girls, first in china, then in other countries' communities. the organization was founded by regina…

International
7
Women's Center and Shelter of Greater Pittsburgh

The mission of women's center & shelter of greater pittsburgh is to strengthen our ability to meet the individual and evolving needs of those affected by domestic violence by investing in the growth of our people, deepening community…

Human Services
8
Pathfinder International

Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…

International
9
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
10
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Church World Service Inc

Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Women and Families Inc; the most unlike its peers is Days for Girls International. 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

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Kentucky Interfaith Power Light: $7,697 · OtherKentucky Interfaith Power LightPRESENTATION ACADEMY: $500 · OtherPRESENTATION ACADEMYDare to Care Kids Cafe: $400 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $894 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES…THE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $793 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR WOM…WAVES FOR WATER INC: $513 · Human ServicesWAVES FOR WATER IN…Uniting Partners for Women and Children: $499 · Human ServicesUniting Partners f…LA CASITA CENTER INC: $244 · Human ServicesLA CASITA CENTER I…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,360 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUN…Days For Girls International: $500 · InternationalDays For Girls In…MALARIA NO MORE FUND: $1,771 · PhilanthropyMALARIA NO…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $870 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUND: $224 · EnvironmentMy Dog Eats First Inc: $630 · AnimalsSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $285 · Crime & LegalPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN: $250 · Religion
Other$8,597Human Services$2,943International$2,860Philanthropy$1,771Environment$1,094Animals$630Crime & Legal$285Religion$250

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 budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $2,360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMALARIA NO MORE FUND: $1,771 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF LOUISVILLE INC: $894 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES INC: $793 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAVES FOR WATER INC: $513 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDays For Girls International: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children: $499 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $285 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASSIONIST EARTH & SPIRIT CENTER IN: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $224 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 Community Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…The Gheens Foundation…Honorable Order of Ke…The Community Foundat…Baird Foundation IncGe Aerospace Foundati…Wood & Marie Hannah F…Kosair Charities Comm…LG&E and Ku Foundatio…The Community Foundat…National Philanthropi…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY19.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The Gheens Foundation Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Wood & Marie Hannah Foundation · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Lincoln-Darst Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lincoln-Darst Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report 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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How do I get to The Lincoln-Darst Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Lincoln-Darst 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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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