· Private foundation
The Lincoln Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NINO DE LA CARIDAD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| PHIPPS NEIGHBORHOODS | $25,000 |
| HORIZON AT SAINT DAVID'S SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S STOREFRONT | $25,000 |
| GETTING OUT & STAYING OUT | $25,000 |
| LULU & LEO FUND | $25,000 |
| BRONX RIVER ART CENTER | $25,000 |
| STJEAN BAPTISTE HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| RENAISSANCE YOUTH CENTER | $25,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $25,000 |
| CORNELIA CONNELLY CENTER | $25,000 |
| HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY | $25,000 |
| SOUTH BRONX UNITED | $25,000 |
| EARL MONROE NEW RENAISSANCE SCHOOL | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- BHBARD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $35k
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +51%
- BOBORO OF MANHATTAN COMMUNIone grant, 2023 · $30k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 40 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 GETTING OUT AND STAYING OUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX RIVER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY ACADEMY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF SPEAKEASY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lincoln Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lincoln Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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