California · Nonprofit
LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS
LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,876 to it, the largest being Diaz-Martinez Family Foundation ($10,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $92k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $11k
- Net assets
- $286k
What Lincoln Heights Dollars for Scholars does
Mission
Founded in 1988, the mission of Lincoln Heights Dollars for Scholars is to mobilize our community through scholarships and educational support, to make post-secondary education possible for Lincoln Heights students.Our goals are to (1) provide scholarship assistance for as many graduating Lincoln and Sacred Heart high school students as possible who plan to attend an accredited four-year college or university, community college or vocational institution; and (2) develop financial resources for the continuing distribution of scholarships for those graduating students to continue their education.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Provide scholarship assistance for four-year college or university, community college or vocational institution; develop financial resources for graduating students to continue their education.
$50,741 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $50,741.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $95 → $16.
1 of 4 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 LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS’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 HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% 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 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36 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.
Organizations like LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS
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
0%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS?
- LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,876 to it, the largest being Diaz-Martinez Family Foundation ($10,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $10,876 in grants to LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS?
- Diaz-Martinez Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN HEIGHTS DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS 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 FY2023 (financials across 2023–2023), and the filings of 4 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