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COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,496,452 to it, the largest being DAVEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION R67810003 ($3,023,872). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$26M
Revenue FY2024
23
Funders on record
$6.5M
Grants received
$90M
Net assets
7/23 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$22M

Recipients

71

Contributions on record

$27M

Donors on record

24

Payments out are 0.82x the contributions on record, so most of what arrives moves on within the period covered here.

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.6M) Expenses 100 ($3.0M) Net assets 100 ($32M)2018 Revenue 69 ($3.9M) Expenses 98 ($2.9M) Net assets 93 ($30M)2019 Revenue 200 ($11M) Expenses 125 ($3.7M) Net assets 117 ($38M)2020 Revenue 226 ($13M) Expenses 175 ($5.2M) Net assets 140 ($45M)2021 Revenue 296 ($17M) Expenses 217 ($6.4M) Net assets 171 ($55M)2022 Revenue 99 ($5.6M) Expenses 146 ($4.4M) Net assets 176 ($57M)2023 Revenue 140 ($7.9M) Expenses 188 ($5.6M) Net assets 221 ($71M)2024 Revenue 466 ($26M) Expenses 266 ($7.9M) Net assets 280 ($90M)
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Revenue (466)Expenses (266)Net assets (280)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.6M
17
$942k
18
$7.5M
19
$7.5M
20
$10M
21
$1.2M
22
$2.3M
23
$18M
24
12
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $15k → $344k.

9 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $20M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Community Foundation for the Land of Lincoln Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC raised.

From the IRS filings of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.

IL
MO
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
19
20
21
22
23
Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $773k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 4%Fundraising 2%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

51%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • New Community Improvement Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC (Illinois) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,496,452 to it, the largest being DAVEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION R67810003 ($3,023,872). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year. COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $6,496,452 in grants to COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC?
DAVEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION R67810003 is the largest funder on record, with $3,023,872 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR THE LAND OF LINCOLN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 23funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing