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The Suzanne & Bruce Lindsay Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Suzanne & Bruce Lindsay Charitable Foundation

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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$2k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$47kEducation$19kRecreation & Sports$5kArts & Culture$3kReligion$700Community Improvement$300Public Safety & Disaster$150Housing & Shelter$125
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRYN MAWR COLLEGE$2,000
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 27% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $1k → 22%SPRING ISLAND TRUST: $5k → 10%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $3k → 16%WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN: $150 → 14%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 5%THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $1k → 22%SPRING ISLAND TRUST: $5k → 10%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $3k → 16%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $2k → 5%THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $1k → 22%SPRING ISLAND TRUST: $5k → 10%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $3k → 16%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 5%THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $1k → 22%SPRING ISLAND TRUST: $5k → 10%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $2k → 16%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 5%THE HAVERFORD SCHOOL: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $1k → 22%SPRING ISLAND TRUST: $5k → 10%COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $2k → 16%OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $500 → 5%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $2k → 10%FAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $100 → 22%PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%OHIO WESLEYAN FUND: $400 → 5%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $2k → 10%SPRING ISLAND TRUST: $3k → 10%OHIO WESLEYAN FUND: $300 → 5%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $1k → 10%PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%OHIO WESLEYAN FUND: $300 → 5%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $500 → 10%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $1k → 22%PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%OHIO WESLEYAN FUND: $300 → 5%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $500 → 10%PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $250 → 10%THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA: $275 → 22%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $250 → 10%MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FDN: $1k → 22%BRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $250 → 10%CENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $125 → 22%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72k · 10 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$72k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+28%

Still filing today

70%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PR
    PORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +161%
  • BM
    BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +37%
  • OW
    OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • PM
    PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +28%
  • MC
    MASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -27%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150 · revenue -40%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
The Philadelphia School

The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.

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3
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
4
The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc

Pokc was formed for charitable and educational purposes and is dedicated to the promotion of the arts.

Arts & Culture
5
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
6
Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation

Pidc plans and implements economic development initiatives (see schedule o) which enhance the competitive environment, generate jobs and produce higher tax ratables throughout philadelphia.

Community Improvement
7
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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8
Pidc Development Management Corporation

Pidc dmc administers and coordinates various development projects for the city and other not-for-profit entities.

Community Improvement
9
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

The academy operates a post-secondary educational program in fine arts as well as a gallery collection of american art. in addition, the academy sponsors fine arts classes for all ages and free arts programs.

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Delaware River Waterfront Corporation

Drwc's mission is to maintain and promote the use and development of the city of philadelphia's waterfront. this task is of vital importance to the city and one which the city would otherwise be rquired to perform absent the drwc.

Community Improvement
12
Tudor Place Foundation Inc

Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center City District Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Philadelphia Museum of Art. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPRING ISLAND TRUST: $27,500 · EnvironmentSPRING ISLAND TRUSTPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EnvironmentPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $5,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE+1 more: $100 · EnvironmentBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $6,250 · EducationBRYN MAWR COLLEGEOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITYHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationHAVERFORD SCHOOLMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOU…COASTAL CONSERVATION LEAGUE: $11,500 · OtherCOASTAL CONSERVATIO…OHIO WESLEYAN FUND: $1,300 · OtherOHIO WESLEYAN FUND+1 more: $300 · OtherPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000 · Arts & CulturePHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,275 · Arts & CultureWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150 · InternationalCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $125 · Community Improvement
Environment$40,100Education$18,250Other$13,100Arts & Culture$3,275International$150Community Improvement$125

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 budgetSPRING ISLAND TRUST: $27,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPORT ROYAL SOUND FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE: $6,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAVERFORD SCHOOL: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF RITTENHOUSE SQUARE: $5,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $1,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASTERY CHARTER SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER CITY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRMOUNT PARK CONSERVANCY: $100 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.

National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA12.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Suzanne & Bruce Lindsay Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Suzanne & Bruce Lindsay Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%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 · 0–10%
    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 15 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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