California · Nonprofit
LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC
LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($420,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Lincoln Media Foundation Inc does
Mission
The organization's mission is to produce original reporting and editorial focused content on issues of public importance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization produces original reporting and editorial focused content on issues of public importance, including state and local issues not covered by traditional news outlets. Content is delivered through written content as well as video and focuses on digital distribution. A combination of full-time staff and contracted vendors conduct this activity through digital, print, and radio. The organization also engages in in-depth reporting.
$2,067,160 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,067,160.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $339k to $1.4M (+300%).
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 LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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.
Chief executive
Seth Morrison
CEO/director
Board chair
Teresa Hernandez
Chairwoman/director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $100k → $215k.
9 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 MEDIA FOUNDATION 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 MEDIA FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
85% 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 MEDIA FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 50% · 2022 45% · 2023 56% — 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
85% of LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC'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 $216k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Against its field
LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 6 related entities
- Lincoln Club Institute · exempt
- The Lincoln Club of Orange County · exempt
- The Lincoln Club of Orange County Federal · exempt
- The Lincoln Club of Orange County State PAC · exempt
- 1962 PAC Campaign Compliance Group · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION 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 LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC?
- LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,425,500 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($420,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,425,500 in grants to LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC?
- DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $420,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINCOLN MEDIA FOUNDATION INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2021–2024), and the filings of 15 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