California · Nonprofit
Downtown Lincoln Association
Downtown Lincoln Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,043 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $42k
What Downtown Lincoln Association does
Mission
The mission statement of the organization is: Rediscover the charm of Main Street USA in Downtown Lincoln where our unique shops, restaurants and activities will transport you back to times of friendly neighborhoods and quality personal service.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Our main goal is to promote our Downtown which is a critical retail area and center of our town. The economic health of our Community is dependent on the Downtown success and in attracting new business development. Our sales tax dollars generated are very key to public safety funding. Due to Covid restrictions our events were completely terminated and our activities were mainly restricted to Zoom meetings and some visits.Wrote and mailed to over 14,000 residents Direct Mailers for Downtown businesses and non-profits. This was done once in the fiscal year and promotes our Downtown merchants.Solicited ads and designed Downtown City map for members participation. Arranging for printing of several thousands to be distributed Downtown this summer.Distributed sanitizer, masks and Shop Local stickers to our Downtown retailers. Sent out weekly emails to members and wider distribution to with useful information for our businesses and non-profits.Held monthly meetings with speakers on topics of great interest and helpful support to our businesses and non-profitsfrom Financial information, SBDC, legal implications, Social Media advice, etc.Close relationship with our City Management to both…
$10,033 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,033.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $97k to $42k (−56%).
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.
100% of Downtown Lincoln Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $11.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Downtown Lincoln Association’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.
How concentrated its funding is
Downtown Lincoln Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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 Downtown Lincoln Association's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
Downtown Lincoln Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,328 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,328 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Downtown Lincoln Association
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Downtown Lincoln Association: 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 Downtown Lincoln Association?
- Downtown Lincoln Association (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,043 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES ($50,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Downtown Lincoln Association have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $50,043 in grants to Downtown Lincoln Association, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Downtown Lincoln Association?
- CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR STRONGER COMMUNITIES is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Downtown Lincoln Association find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 2 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing