· Private foundation
The Lincoln Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GETTING OUT & STAYING OUT | $25,000 |
| LULU & LEO FUND | $25,000 |
| BRONX RIVER ART CENTER | $25,000 |
| NINO DE LA CARIDAD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER | $25,000 |
| STJEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| RENAISSANCE YOUTH CENTER | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $25,000 |
| LITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS | $25,000 |
| HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY | $25,000 |
| STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| SOUTH BRONX UNITED | $25,000 |
| EARL MONROE NEW RENAISSANCE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- SPSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +82%
- GOGRACE OUTREACH INC4× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +25%
- TWTHE WRITING REVOLUTION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $100k · revenue +144%
Funded once
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +51%
- BHBARD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $35k
- BOBORO OF MANHATTAN COMMUNIone grant, 2023 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We enhance the life for children and families in some of nyc's most devastated neighborhoods.
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
School in the square ("s2") engages, educates and empowers adolescents to respond mindfully and creatively to life's opportunities and challenges. s2 is a place where students, families and educators are seen, heard, and inspired and where…
Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.
Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage. located in the prospect heights neighborhood of brookly, luria academy is a jewish…
Learning through an expanded arts program, inc's (leap) mission is to provide educational arts programs to promote access and equity for new york city students underserved in the arts. we inspire diverse school communities to love learning…
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
See schedule othe mission of harlem children's zone promise academy charter school is to ensure that children from under-served communities are academically, socially and emotionally ready to succeed in college and tomorrow's workplace.…
Nyc kids rise works to expand economic opportunity through a unique, community-driven college savings program in nyc.
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Phipps Neighborhoods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Child Development. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds STUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds READING TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WRITING REVOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
- Who funds PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
- Who funds LULU & LEO FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX RIVER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GROOVE WITH ME INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BIGS & LITTLES NYC MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds Housing Plus Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds KINGSBRIDGE HEIGHTS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Renaissance Youth Center ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Express Foundation · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Robin Hood Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lincoln Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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