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The Lindsay Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$307k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Youth Development$198kReligion$174kEducation$165kCivil Rights$150kHousing & Shelter$100kInternational$75kArts & Culture$25kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Vista Villages Inc$100,000
Reset Inc LLC$50,000
Care Portal$27,000
Lexington Leadership Foundation$25,000
Simple Church$10,000
Chosen to Live Ministeries$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Geneva Hills Group$10,000
Believe Christian Church$6,500
Oasis of Love Community Church$6,000
Cross Walk Church$5,500
The Women's Clinic$5,000
Joint-Heir Ministeries$5,000
Lifewise Academy$5,000
Gethsemane United Methodist Church$5,000
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 (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Seven Baskets Community Dev't Corp: $3k → 15%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.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$558k · 23 repeat orgs$389k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
10

Total granted

$558k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+145%
+175%

Still filing today

17%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
ReligionCivil RightsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther

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

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +123%
  • TG
    THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $75k · revenue +97%
  • LI
    LIFEWISE INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue ×21

Funded once

  • LC
    LIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +175%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • LF
    Lawrence Funderburke Youth Org
    one grant, 2020 · $5k

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
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
2
Legacy Disciple

Legacy disciple organizes conferences to encourage, equip and empower everyday christians to be disciples who make disciples for christ. we accomplish this mission through creative conferences, quality content and broad collaboration.

Religion
3
Activation Ministries

We serve adult Christians and the churches they attend in the greater Cincinnati area (as well as online). We have three primary offerings: 1. Equipping & Activations - Serving as a parachurch ministry, we partner with churches and other…

Religion
4
Liberty Grace of God

The mission is to provide spiritual growth, education and community engagement by spreading jesus christ teaching and the vision of god for the humanity

Religion
5
One Voice Board Inc

One Voice Board is dedicated to furthering Christian ministry and evangelism by providing faith-based, biblically oriented leadership and conflict resolution training to organizations engaged in active Christian ministerial and/or…

Religion
6
Global Gospel Initiative Inc
Religion
7
The Life Connection Inc
Religion
8
Vision International Missions

To propagate the gospel of jesus christ; to examine candidates and appoint missionaries. to endorse missionary programs according to standards set forth in the new testament, to establish churches, church schools & mission societies in…

Religion
9
Lx Ministries Inc

Our mission is to multiply the global impact and influence of Christian leaders and pastors throughout their organizations and communities. Our activities involve working with members of the leadership of other exclusively charitable…

Religion
10
Vision Ohio

Start new churches

Religion
11
New Life International Christian Ministry Inc

Our mission is proclaiming the message of salvation through the saving power of the Holy Spirit to reach the unreached by evangelizing; motivating, mobilizing and organizing the body of Christ.

Religion
12
Outside the Walls Ministry

To encourage Christians to be role models- demonstrating that sharing faith ignites everything one says and does with Gods Promise to Make Everying in Life Work for Good, to move everyone, every day closer to Jesus.

Religion

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

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr13%14%5–10yr17%32%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr23%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%18%<5yr13%6%5–10yr17%18%10–20yr14%18%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr23%4%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/24
the rest of the field
12%
1,330/10,754

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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 50 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Grace Christian School — $100,000 · OtherGrace Christian SchoolLIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $50,000 · OtherLIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMYIndividual grant recipient — $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientDream Center — $44,000 · OtherDream CenterOASIS OF LOVE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $30,000 · OtherOASIS OF LOVE COMMUNITY CHURCHCare Portal — $27,000 · Other+37 more — $223,900 · Other+37 moreCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $150,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CHRIST…VISTA VILLAGE INC — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterVISTA VILLA…THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC — $75,000 · PhilanthropyRESET INC — $50,000 · Religion+1 more — $1,000 · ReligionLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureLIFEWISE INC — $20,500 · Youth Development
Other$524,900Civil Rights$150,000Housing & Shelter$100,000Philanthropy$75,000Religion$51,000Arts & Culture$25,000Youth Development$20,500

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE — $150,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetVISTA VILLAGE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRESET INC — $50,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetLIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLIFEWISE INC — $20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGENEVA HILLS GROUP INC — $10,725 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSeven Baskets Community Development Corporation — $2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Noble Foundation Group — $2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetANOINTED TOUCH MINISTRIES — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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.

  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN VIRTUE
  • Who funds VISTA VILLAGE INC
  • Who funds THE GLOBAL ORPHAN PROJECT INC
  • Who funds RESET INC
  • Who funds LIBERTY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
  • Who funds LEXINGTON LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds LIFEWISE INC
  • Who funds GENEVA HILLS GROUP INC

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.

Columbus FoundationOH11.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Lindsay Family Foundation 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 50 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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