Michigan · Nonprofit
LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD
LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,646 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($83,646). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Lineage Foundation for Good does
Mission
Our mission is to reduce food waste and fight food insecurity by developing a dynamic, real-time and global link between those who commercially produce our food and the individuals, families and communities who need it most.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Local grant - distribute food items and cash grants to partner organizations who work to provide public, year-round, reliable, and secure access to nutritious food.
$6,578,656 spentof which $6,478,574 as grants75% of program spendingStrategic grant - facilitate assessment of public community cold storage food facilities and resources creating opportunities for lineage employees to share their expertise, intellectual property, and other tools, through the foundation as an in-kind contribution and cash grants to these organizations operating in the food insecurity space to improve capacity and outcomes.
$630,233 spentof which $575,000 as grants7% of program spendingEmployee hardship - provide monetary relief and assistance to current and future employees and immediate family members (including qualifying surviving family members) of lineage. The foundation's relief assistance will focus on aiding employees facing a financial hardship resulting from a qualifying circumstance.
$720,004 spentof which $544,224 as grants8% of program spendingLocal grant and other - providing aid and support to the communities in which lineage, inc. And/or its subsidiaries (collectively, lineage) operate that are in need and qualify for assistance. This is facilitated through community service programming with episodic and skills-based volunteering by lineage employees and external partners.
$858,286 spentof which $420,000 as grants10% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,787,179.
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 $9.3M to $4.9M (−47%).
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.
95% of LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% 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.
Board chair
Christine Rees-Zecha
Board chair/president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD’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
LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% 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
100% 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 LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD.
“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
100% of LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD is better cushioned than half of the 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,131 food & nutrition nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 18 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD: 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 LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD?
- LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $163,646 to it, the largest being THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ($83,646). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $163,646 in grants to LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD?
- THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $83,646 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LINEAGE FOUNDATION FOR GOOD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2021–2024), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing