Ohio · Nonprofit
LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER
LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,818,550 to it, the largest being THE TROY FOUNDATION ($3,754,484). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $963k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $5.8M
- Net assets
- $4.5M
What Lincoln Community Center does
Mission
To provide a facility for the residents of troy and the vicinity to engage in educational, social, cultural and recreational activities. The center provides opportunities for people of all ages to participate in a wide range of programs that educate and stimulate the public, enhance self- confidence, and promote mental and physical health.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The history of the Lincoln Community Center is one of tradition, pride, dedication and purpose, which lends itself to a significant part of troy's own rich history. Prior to the construction of the Lincoln Community Center in 1939, the lot was the site of the lincoln school. The school operated from 1865 to 1874 as an all-age black school until the state legislature passed the arnett bill. The lincoln school building was then used to teach reading, writing and arithmetic to younger preschool-aged black children. The transformation from neighborhood school to community center began around 1916. In that year, the miami athletics, a semi-pro football team, asked the board of education to allow the team to use the building and dressing room and the grounds as a practice field. The following year a group of citizens went one step further and asked the board to turn the grounds over to the community for a playground and meeting space. The school board granted, and soon after, lincoln center hall was open. The lincoln community association, later known as the Lincoln Community Center association inc. Was established in 1924. The center toughed out the hardships of the 1930s, as did the…
$986,887 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $986,887.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $807k to $3.7M (+354%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $190k → $501k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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 LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER’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
LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 99% · 2019 72% · 2020 55% · 2021 84% · 2022 64% · 2023 79% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
75% of LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.9M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER?
- LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,818,550 to it, the largest being THE TROY FOUNDATION ($3,754,484). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $5,818,550 in grants to LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER?
- THE TROY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,754,484 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN COMMUNITY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing