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The Lindsay Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$60k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$666kHealth$100kHuman Services$54kArts & Culture$47kYouth Development$37kRecreation & Sports$36kPhilanthropy$31kCrime & Legal$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$303k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QUINCY HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
ORANGE LUTHERAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
THE SO THAT PROJECT$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
QUINCY UNIVERSITY AVIATION PROGRAM$10,000
THE WELL HOUSE$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–21, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CRITTENTON CENTERS: $1k → 14%WASHINGTON MEDIA SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON MEDIA SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON MEDIA SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON MEDIA SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%WASHINGTON MEDIA SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
IA
IN
CA
CO
MO
WV
VA
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$613k · 27 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

27 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
32

Total granted

$613k
$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+26%

Still filing today

70%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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

  • QU
    QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $312k · revenue +47%
  • WM
    Washington Media Scholars Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +26%
  • BF
    BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA
    4× · 2017–2020 · $9k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • QP
    QUINCY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · $179k
  • SH
    SUNSET HOME
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +18%
  • TB
    THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +210%
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
Illinois College

Illinois college is a co-educational institution of higher education learning providing a four-year educational program leading to the baccalaureate degree. illinois college is a community committed to the highest standards of scholarship…

Education
2
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education
3
Lake Forest College

Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…

Education
4
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
5
Missouri Western State University Foundation Inc

The missouri western state university foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization that functions solely to support the mission of missouri western state university, as stated in the university's mission statement. the foundation…

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6
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
7
Rockford University

To educate men & women to lead responsible lives by means of a curriculum grounded in liberal arts learning and complemented and extended by professional and practical experience, through the total academic and co-curricular experience,…

Education
8
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
9
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Broadcasters Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Dr Richard Eells House. 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

37 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. 37 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $311,892 · EducationQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATIONCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGEQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $37,300 · EducationQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATIONHannibal LaGrange University: $30,000 · EducationHannibal LaGrange University+4 more: $17,000 · EducationQUINCY PUBLIC LIBRARY: $178,650 · OtherQUINCY PUBLIC LIBRARYQUINCY NOTRE DAME ANNUAL FUND: $15,200 · OtherTRI-STATE GOLF PRO-AM NFP: $15,000 · Other+39 more: $205,808 · Other+39 moreSUNSET HOME: $50,000 · HealthSUNSET HO…THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE BLESS…The Well House Inc NFP: $30,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $28,252 · PhilanthropyROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyWashington Media Scholars Foundation: $25,000 · Human ServicesCRITTENTON CENTERS: $1,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY ART CENTER: $7,500 · Arts & CultureQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE DR RICHARD EELLS HOUSE: $5,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY: $4,000 · Arts & CultureILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureGREAT COMMISSION BROADCASTING CORP ATTN BROC HAMPSMIRE: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & Culture
Education$446,192Other$414,658Health$90,000Crime & Legal$30,000Philanthropy$29,252Human Services$26,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $311,892 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSUNSET HOME: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetQUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION: $37,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Well House Inc NFP: $30,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetHannibal LaGrange University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC: $28,252 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetWashington Media Scholars Foundation: $25,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTRI-STATE GOLF PRO-AM NFP: $15,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetQUINCY ART CENTER: $7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE PEOPLE'S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS: $6,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetQUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHEAST INDIANA REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DR RICHARD EELLS HOUSE: $5,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $4,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRAEDI FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEASTER SEALS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA CRESCENT AREA EVENT CENTER INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNORTHEAST MISSOURI OLD THRESHERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetILLINOIS PRESS FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREAT COMMISSION BROADCASTING CORP ATTN BROC HAMPSMIRE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHORIZONS SOCIAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSECRANCE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQuincy Exchange Club Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetQUINCY SERVICE LEAGUE: $920 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWestern Illinois University Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDubuque County Historical Society: $500 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.

  • Who funds QUINCY UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SUNSET HOME ↗
  • Who funds CULVER-STOCKTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BLESSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY NOTRE DAME FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Well House Inc NFP ↗
  • Who funds Hannibal LaGrange University ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADAMS COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Washington Media Scholars Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TRI-STATE GOLF PRO-AM NFP ↗
  • Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY ART CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE PEOPLE'S GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY SOCIETY OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST INDIANA REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DR RICHARD EELLS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CHADDOCK ATTACHMENT AND TRAUMA SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BLUEFIELD STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF QUINCY & ADAMS COUNTY ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Hofmeister FoundationMarion G Jackson Char…Michelmann FoundationThe Jw Gardner II Fou…The Cfm FoundationStillwell FoundationBlessing HospitalKunes Family Foundati…Lewmar FoundationNuessen Family Founda…George H Riedel Found…
Community Foundation of the Quincy AreaIL40.8× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Quincy Area · Hofmeister Foundation · Marion G Jackson Char Tr · Michelmann Foundation · The Jw Gardner II Foundation · The Cfm Foundation · Stillwell Foundation · Blessing Hospital · Kunes Family Foundation · Lewmar Foundation · Nuessen Family Foundation · George H Riedel 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 Lindsay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lindsay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Lindsay Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Lindsay Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 64 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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