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The Lindemann Charitable Foundation II Inc at a glance

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The Lindemann Charitable Foundation II 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.

$548k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$485k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.9MEducation$329kScience & Tech$35kHealth$15kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
  • $250k+1 grant · $485k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$485,345
THE SANTA FE OPERA$25,000
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA$25,000
PHILLIP & PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$10,000
DI GOLDENE KEYT THE GOLDEN CHAIN LTD$2,500
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 (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TURNING POINT: $5k → 14%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 6 repeat orgs$161k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$4.9M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+45%

Still filing today

83%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PA
    PHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +3%
  • TS
    THE SANTA FE OPERA
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +20%
  • JS
    JUILLIARD SCHOOL
    3× · 2021–2024 · $15k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NW
    NEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -38%
  • GO
    GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $28k · revenue +30%
  • OA
    OPERA AMERICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +45%
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
Los Angeles Opera Company

To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…

Arts & Culture
2
Florentine Opera Company Inc

The florentine opera company is driven to produce the full range of operatic works reflecting the highest musical and theatrical standards, and to support community and education programs that foster the current and next generation of…

Arts & Culture
3
Foundation for Modern Opera
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4
Chicago Opera Theater

Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.

Arts & Culture
5
Florida Grand Opera Inc

The mission of florida grand opera is to enrich people's lives through an awareness and deeper appreciation of opera while supporting the operations of the greater miami opera and the opera guild, inc. by expanding its reach to diverse…

Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
7
Lyric Opera of Chicago

We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…

Arts & Culture
8
New York City Opera

New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…

Arts & Culture
9
Cleveland Institute of Music

The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.

Education
10
Arizona Opera Company

Arizona opera elevates the transformative power of storytelling through music - cultivating community and strengthening a state and people as adventurous and diverse as the place they call home.

Arts & Culture
11
Hawaii Symphony Orchestra

To present the highest-quality performances of great music, bringing national and international distinction to the orchestra and its community; to delight and educate audiences of all ages and backgrounds, and enhance the cultural vitality…

Arts & Culture
12
Opera Santa Barbara

See schedule 0founded in 1994, opera santa barbara is the signature provider of professional opera on the california central coast. we aspire to be a cultural leader in the santa barbara region, voicing and advancing our community's spirit…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Santa Fe Opera; the most unlike its peers is Di Goldene Keyt the Golden Chain Ltd. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: $4,748,120 · OtherTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA+4 more: $45,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · Community ImprovementPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $30,000 · Arts & CultureGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $27,500 · Arts & CultureOPERA AMERICA INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $16,000 · Arts & CulturePALM BEACH OPERA INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $4,500 · Arts & CultureNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $50,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTurning Point Inc: $5,000 · Human Services
Other$4,793,120Community Improvement$300,000Arts & Culture$148,000Education$79,000Human Services$5,000

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 budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW WORLD SYMPHONY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILLIP AND PATRICIA FROST MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA FE OPERA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC: $27,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPERA AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALM BEACH OPERA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTurning Point Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDI GOLDENE KEYT THE GOLDEN CHAIN LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CUSHMAN SCHOOL INC: $1,000 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.

Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Jewish Communal FundMorgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY12.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New World Symphony Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Cushman School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 19 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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