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LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC

LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being PUBLIC WISE INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.7M
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$35k
Net assets
$285k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 3%
01What it does

What Lincoln Democracy Institute Inc does

Mission

Lincoln democracy institute educates and empowers citizens to understand american democratic values through innovative content, engagement, and mobilization.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Conducted extensive longitutdinal and quantative research on the resiliancy of democracy and its impact on citizens.

    $1,042,916 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,042,916.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($5.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 22 ($1.2M) Expenses 49 ($2.3M) Net assets 3 ($28k)2022 Revenue 29 ($1.6M) Expenses 25 ($1.2M) Net assets 50 ($513k)2023 Revenue 16 ($932k) Expenses 29 ($1.3M) Net assets 10 ($99k)2024 Revenue 30 ($1.7M) Expenses 32 ($1.5M) Net assets 28 ($285k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (30)Expenses (32)Net assets (28)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.0M to $28k (−97%).

$1.0M
$28k
$513k
$99k
$285k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.0M
’20
−$1.0M
’21
$485k
’22
−$414k
’23
$186k
’24
2.3
months of
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.

Chief executive

Erin Dobson

Executive director

Board chair

Reed Galen

Chairman of the board - until 11/24

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

20202021202220232024
Listed54433
Joined·+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·1010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
Public Wise Incunclassified
$25k
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE 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.

How concentrated its funding is

LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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

71% 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 DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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

LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC

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 Oregon

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

70% of spending goes to programs.

Program 70%Management 27%Fundraising 3%

Governance

2
board members
50%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 27 states

ME
NH
ND
MN
IL
WI
MA
OR
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
KY
WV
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
GA
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC?
LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC (Oregon) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,000 to it, the largest being PUBLIC WISE INC ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $35,000 in grants to LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC.
Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC?
PUBLIC WISE INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LINCOLN DEMOCRACY INSTITUTE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 2020–2024), 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