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The Lindemann 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.

$56k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$263kArts & Culture$170kPhilanthropy$82kEnvironment$38kRecreation & Sports$17kInternational$15kHealth$11kCivil Rights$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRATEFUL FILM FOUNDATION$12,000
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$10,000
BENNINGTON COLLEGE$5,000
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$5,000
CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION$5,000
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL$5,000
BUCKLEY SCHOOL$2,500
CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION$2,500
FILM INDEPENDENT INC$2,500
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION$1,000
STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING$1,000
EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE INC$1,000
FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA INC$500
WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC$500
ALL SEATED IN A BARN$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $500 → 10%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $500 → 10%UNION RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $500 → 17%PEOPLE ASSISTING THE HOMELESS: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WA
MT
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
NM
AR
NC
DC
AL
TX

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.

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$464k · 46 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
58

Total granted

$464k
$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+15%

Still filing today

80%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue ×19
  • BC
    BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +47%
  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • MF
    MINT FILM MT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • HR
    HUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -27%
  • SP
    SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +13%

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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6
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
7
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
10
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
11
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
12
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Venture Fund and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsEquine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterJewish Community Organizati…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Domestic Violence ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Youth Sports ProgramsChristian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%11%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%37%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/100
the rest of the field
14%
26,001/186,878

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.

04the grantee network

93 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. 93 of the 111 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/93
Grantees still filing
59/93
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION — $94,500 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATIONBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $51,200 · EducationBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATIONHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $45,000 · EducationHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOLTOOLS FOR PEACE — $22,000 · EducationTOOLS FOR PEACESTAR SPORTS THEATRE ARTS & RECREATION INC — $17,000 · EducationSTAR SPORTS THEATRE ARTS & RECREATION INC+6 more — $12,000 · EducationCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $55,550 · Arts & CultureCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIO…INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY …FILM INDEPENDENT — $13,500 · Arts & CultureFILM INDEPENDENTLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $13,000 · Arts & CultureLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANYTHE GRATEFUL FILM FUND — $12,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GRATEFUL FILM FUNDSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $6,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $5,500 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $12,280 · Arts & Culture+10 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $59,056 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVIS…AFRICAN MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,600 · PhilanthropyYale Law School Yale Law School Fund (obsolete) — $10,000 · OtherYale Law School Ya…THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $6,000 · OtherTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOLYale Law School Yale Law School Fund — $5,000 · OtherFeeding America — $8,600 · OtherFeeding AmericaCenter for Environmental Health — $4,000 · OtherTM23 FOUNDATION — $6,000 · OtherTM23 FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTER — $5,000 · Other+54 more — $56,050 · Other+54 moreFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $23,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentOceanic Preservation Society — $2,950 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc — $2,000 · Environment+4 more — $1,550 · EnvironmentFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $20,951 · Community ImprovementRotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation — $4,800 · Community Improvement+2 more — $750 · Community ImprovementMINT FILM MT — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL HORSEMENS FOUNDATION — $6,500 · Recreation & SportsNATIONAL HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA LTD — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURFING INC — $2,000 · Recreation & SportsCOMPTON JUNIOR EQUESTRIANS — $750 · Recreation & Sports
Education$241,700Arts & Culture$147,830Philanthropy$63,156Other$105,650Environment$37,000Community Improvement$26,501Recreation & Sports$21,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION — $94,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $59,056 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $55,550 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION — $51,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL — $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $23,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTOOLS FOR PEACE — $22,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $20,951 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTAR SPORTS THEATRE ARTS & RECREATION INC — $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFILM INDEPENDENT — $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES OPERA COMPANY — $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMINT FILM MT — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFeeding America — $8,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PROFESSIONAL HORSEMENS FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BUCKLEY SCHOOL — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTM23 FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS ACTION CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANZANITA SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Los Angeles Foundation — $4,800 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health — $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC ARTS AND COMMUNITY LOS ANGELES — $3,250 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSKIRBALL CULTURAL CENTER — $3,080 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOceanic Preservation Society — $2,950 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFriends For Pets Foundation — $2,750 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR THE STUDY OF YOUNG PEOPLE IN GROUPS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAFRICAN MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHWAYS FOUNDATION INC — $2,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE WALDORF SCHOOL — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA LTD — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENCYCLOPEDIA OF SURFING INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CREATIVE COALITION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES PET RESCUE — $1,800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA — $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetY-APPLY INC — $1,750 over 5y, 25% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY MOTHER COUNTS — $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP POACHING NOW INC — $1,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKCRW FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LONG BEACH RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GEANCO FOUNDATION INC — $1,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Liberty Hill Foundati…Jewish Community Foun…California Community …Pledgeling FoundationThe Annenberg Foundat…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jewish Communal FundThe Rosenthal Family …The Winnick Family Fo…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Sempra FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…
Liberty Hill FoundationCA24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · California Community Foundation · Pledgeling Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The Rosenthal Family Foundation · The Winnick Family Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Sempra Foundation · The Ahmanson 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 Lindemann Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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