How much did THE LINCOLN FUND grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE LINCOLN FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE READING TEAM$35,000
STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS$35,000
SOUTH BRONX UNITED$35,000
TIME IN CHILDREN'S ART$35,000
PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS$35,000
FOUNDATION FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT$30,000
BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE$30,000
CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER$30,000
GRACE OUTREACH$30,000
THE WRITING REVOLUTION$30,000
BORO OF MANHATTAN COMMUNI$30,000
CONEY ISLAND PREP$25,000
HORIZON AT SAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL$25,000
CRISTO REY$25,000
THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS$22,284

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 18%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$302k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$105k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-24%

+113%

Still filing today

38%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

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TIME IN CHILDREN'S ART
3× · 2018–2023 · $105k
GO
GRACE OUTREACH
3× · 2018–2023 · $105k · revenue -8%
SS
STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS
3× · 2018–2023 · $85k

Funded once

FF
FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL
one grant, 2018 · $45k
TM
THURGOOD MARSHALL ACADEMY FOR LEARNING
one grant, 2019 · $30k
CB
CATHOLIC BIG SISTERS & BIG BROTHERSgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +113%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes.

Education

Nyc Kids Rise Inc

Nyc kids rise, inc. is a nonprofit organization working to expand economic opportunityand equity by providing families, schools, and communities with a way to work together to save for their children's education. building on the dreams and…

Youth Development

The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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Children's Aid College Prep Charter

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education

Luria Academy of Brooklyn

Luria academy is a child-centered environment dedicated to academic excellence and a sophisticated knowledge of jewish text and jewish heritage.

Education

Uncommon New York City Charter Schools

Uncommon new york city charter schools prepares our students to enter, succeed in, and graduate from college. our organization comprises 23 high-performing public schools located in brooklyn neighborhoods, including brownsville, crown…

Education

43RD Street Kids Preschool Inc

43rd street kids preschool, inc. is a private, non-profit, parent cooperative preschool, licensed by the nyc health dept. the school provides programs for children ages 9 months to 5 years.

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The City Tutors Inc

The City Tutors is NYC's educational subway: offering free, flexible tutoring and career mentoring built for historically underserved communities and open to all. Available year-round across all five boroughs, The City Tutors help people…

Education

Comprehensive Youth Development Inc

Comprehensive youth development, inc. partners with nyc public high schools to prepare young adults, and ages 14-24, to secure a successful future for themselves and their families. through this partnership, our students develop the…

Human Services

Governors Committee On Scholastic

The committee provides college tuition scholarship grants to needy qualified students and provides a mentoring program for high school students in new york city.

Education

International Preschools

To operate preschool educational programs in the New York City metropolitan area.

Education

Bronx Charter School

Bronx charter school for better learning provides its students with a solid foundation for academic success, through achievements that exceeds citywide averages and meets or exceeds new york state standards and national norms in all…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring 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.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

13/14

Grantees still filing

8/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$869,284Education$325,000Arts & Culture$90,000Human Services$85,000Recreation & Sports$35,000

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.

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.

The Hyde and Watson FoundationNJ17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Pinkerton Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GRACE OUTREACH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~7 months of operating runway; revenue held over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 861110482 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GRACE OUTREACH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Lincoln Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Lincoln Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE LINCOLN FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lincoln Fund?

More from the funding graph

THE LINCOLN FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Lincoln Fund?

More from the funding graph