Missouri · Nonprofit
LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION
LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,393 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($908,370). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $1.8M
What Linda Hall Library Foundation does
Mission
Linda Hall Library Foundation engages in activities to promote public understanding of science and to further education and scholarship in science, engineering, technology, and their histories. Its programs are designed to encourage the public, scholars, and researchers to learn, investigate, explore, and increase knowledge.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation supported activities that promoted the public's understanding of science and furthered education and scholarship in science, engineering, technology, and their histories in partnership with the linda hall library. Fifty-five educational programs were offered in 2025, with over 13,000 people attending in person and approximately 390,000 views on the organization's youtube channel. Those activities included: - free public exhibitions at the linda hall library including follow the recipe and new acquisitions, - free public programs ranging from panel discussions, lectures and activities were presented both in person and virtually. - the kansas city invention convention competition for students from middle and high schools throughout the region. Over 1,200 students used the curriculum and over 450 young inventors participated in the competition in 2025. This program supported twenty-eight schools and thirty-four teachers. - how do I become? A stem program designed to introduce high school and early college students through panel discussion with young professionals in stem careers.
$693,539 spentof which $6,000 as grants69% of program spendingThe foundation provided fellowship grants supporting thirty-two scholars to conduct research fellowships at the linda hall library. The fellowship program offers travel, doctoral, and post-doctoral fellowships in partnership with the linda hall library.
$311,114 spentof which $201,200 as grants31% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,004,653.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $462k to $2.3M (+401%).
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: 2023 5% · 2024 4% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
Eric Dorfman
President and CEO
Board chair
Anne Dema
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 11 funders, grant income fell $152k → $77k.
9 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.0M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Linda Hall Library Trusts). These are real filings, and they are not money LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION’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
LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 100% · 2019 98% · 2020 33% · 2021 45% · 2022 83% · 2023 21% — 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
56% of LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
51% of LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION'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 $970k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from Missouri funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $156k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$156k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Linda Hall Library Trusts · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION: 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 LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION (Missouri) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,971,393 to it, the largest being Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ($908,370). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $1,971,393 in grants to LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION?
- Greater Kansas City Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $908,370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINDA HALL LIBRARY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 25 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