Maryland · Nonprofit
LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC
LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,024 to it, the largest being THE HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($170,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $189k
- Net assets
- $511k
What Lindaben Foundation Inc does
Mission
Our mission has been to improve childhood food security and nutrition and to be a safe haven for the working homeless, and at-risk population, underserved, and marginalized communities by uplifting their conditions and providing wrap around services founded in love and friendship. We envision a world that empowers those in need and invisible by providing means to improve their quality of life in a community where they feel worthy, safe and accepted. Through our collective, collaborative sustainability efforts, we are currently taking actions to achieve zero hunger, food security, and wellness equity. Our project cornerstones consisting of four major volunteer workforces behind the following initiatives: 1 Food Gleaning Program, 2 Onsite Client Choice Community Pantry, 3 FAM Rx Produce Food Distribution at Schools, 4 Blessings in a Backpack
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Food Recovery and Waste Reduction: We partnered with multiple local nonprofits and the county government for our food recovery network focused on rescuing surplus food from farms, retailers, and institutions. In 2025, we recovered over 376,000 pounds of food means you stopped about 252 tons of greenhouse gases from being released - that's the same as: Planting over 10,000 trees and letting them grow for 10 years or taking 58 cars off the road for an entire year or saving the energy used by 33 homes in one year.
$806,004 spent$722,513 earned by the program22% of program spendingClient Choice Community Food Distribution Program: Our Client Choice Community Food Distribution Program empowers individuals and families to select the food items that best meet their cultural, dietary, and personal preferences. This program operates daily and served over 24K households in 2025. Families are able to choose from fresh produce, shelf-stable goods, dairy, protein, and culturally specific staples. The program distributed more than 2.2 million pounds of food valued at approximately $4 million. This approach enhances dignity, reduces food waste, and strengthens community trust.
$1,060,837 spent$974,933 earned by the program29% of program spendingOur Food as Medicine program provides families, especially those from Title I schools and immigrant and refugee communities, with monthly prescription food boxes that contain fresh produce, pantry staples, and health education materials. In 2024, we served over 1500 families each month across 16+ schools. In total, the program distributed over 1 million pounds of fresh and shelf stable food. Educational content tailored to cultural preferences and chronic disease prevention is included in every box.
$1,583,266 spent$1,959,322 earned by the program44% of program spendingBlessings In A Backpack: This program provides weekend power packs of kid friendly snacks to students. Each week the students in the program receive a pre-prepared package of snacks so they have something to eat on the weekend. These snacks are handed out by our school partners to students identified as most in need. On a weekly basis 1,000 students receive snack packs with an annual cost of $35K (7600 units).
$120,629 spent$154,901 earned by the program3% of program spendingOther miscellaneous programs: Catering, Gardening, Workshops, Back to School events
$31,444 spent$10,647 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,602,180.
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. 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 2024 to 2025, from $373k to $961k (+158%).
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: 2024 0% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Annabelle Beavan
Founder/ Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $21 → $10k.
1 of 7 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 LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 6 of 7 funders by total. 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
LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 97% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
95% of LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $74 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.
Against its field
LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LINDABEN 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINDABEN 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 LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC?
- LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC (Maryland) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,024 to it, the largest being THE HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ($170,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $189,024 in grants to LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC?
- THE HORIZON FOUNDATION OF HOWARD COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $170,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINDABEN FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 7 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