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LYNDEN INC

LYNDEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,836,632 to it, the largest being BRADLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,634,384). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.1M
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$4.8M
Net assets
$1.5M
6/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 90%
01What it does

What Lynden Inc does

Mission

To provide educational and community outreach programming, advance the arts in the community, provide support to local artists, and initiate and participate in local and national initiatives for the support of artists and public art and sculpture.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

On its FY2025 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.

There have been some changes in program funding which changes the organizations programming related to the nohl fellowship programs and innovative educators institute.

Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).

  1. Lynden Inc. Provided educational tours, workshops, art exhibitions, an artist residency program, performances and other educational programs related to the lynden sculpture garden and its collections; administered the nohl fellowship program and suitcase export fund traveling program; designed and implemented a suite of teacher professional development programs to recruit and retain k-12 mps teachers who want to teach through the arts; designed and implemented a multi-disciplinary series of performances, exhibitions, residencies, and public events focused on the radical black imagination. As part of its home program, lynden provided programming supporting refugee and displaced communities in milwaukee.

    $1,051,299 spentof which $200,000 as grants$119,036 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,051,299.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($557k) Expenses 100 ($428k) Net assets 100 ($129k)2020 Revenue 155 ($864k) Expenses 153 ($653k) Net assets 264 ($340k)2021 Revenue 262 ($1.5M) Expenses 188 ($804k) Net assets 774 ($996k)2022 Revenue 134 ($746k) Expenses 225 ($962k) Net assets 606 ($780k)2023 Revenue 201 ($1.1M) Expenses 305 ($1.3M) Net assets 461 ($593k)2024 Revenue 211 ($1.2M) Expenses 266 ($1.1M) Net assets 490 ($630k)2025 Revenue 373 ($2.1M) Expenses 278 ($1.2M) Net assets 1179 ($1.5M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (373)Expenses (278)Net assets (1179)Peer revenue range

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 $671k to $1.6M (+133%).

$146k
$368k
$1.0M
$811k
$655k
$671k
$1.6M
2019202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 5% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

94% of LYNDEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$129k
’19
$211k
’20
$656k
’21
−$216k
’22
−$187k
’23
$37k
’24
$885k
’25
4.3
months of
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed6666678
Joined·+0+0+0+0+2+1
No longer listed·000010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income rose $367k → $534k.

2 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 LYNDEN 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

LYNDEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

27% 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 LYNDEN INC.

54%
largest funder
86%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 75% · 2021 42% · 2022 78% · 2023 47% — 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

71% of LYNDEN INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

79% of LYNDEN INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.

MN
IL
WI
NY
CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LYNDEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin43% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding LYNDEN INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.

Federal$20k
grants $20kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Arts$20k

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 LYNDEN 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 Wisconsin

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 7%Fundraising 5%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

53%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds LYNDEN INC?
LYNDEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,836,632 to it, the largest being BRADLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($2,634,384). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LYNDEN INC have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $4,836,632 in grants to LYNDEN INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LYNDEN INC?
BRADLEY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,634,384 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LYNDEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 16 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