Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,102,662 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($348,581). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $2.1M
- Net assets
- $1.3M
What President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers Home does
Mission
We preserve president lincoln's cottage (plc) to connect people to the true spirit of the lincolns, build empathy, and inspire them to act upon their own brave ideas for justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The authentic historic place, the legacy of what abraham lincoln accomplished while in residence, and new perspectives on lincoln's public and private life. Plc accomplishes this through a wide variety of compelling programs and events including: signature guided tours of the cottage and self-guided experiences of exhibits and the landscape; annual programs for the public including scholar sessions, our q&abe podcast, lincoln ideas forum, and the students opposing slavery international summit. Additionally, plc hosts a variety of responsive public programs and special events to best serve the community and provides both digital and in-person educational opportunities for school groups that directly link the past and present, especially as it relates to historical enslavement (continued on schedule o) and lincoln's work on the emancipation proclamation.special initiatives include plc's 'empathy and connection: america at 250' program. The cottage has been working to leverage the unique opportunity of the nation's semiquincentennial, or 250th anniversary, on july 4, 2026, to bring people together to gain a fuller understanding of our nation's past and their vision and…
$1,025,525 spentof which $4,644 as grants$262,852 earned by the program67% of program spendingPreservation:we preserve president lincoln's cottage by stewarding, restoring, and maintaining the historically significant structures and surrounding landscape; periodically acquiring, managing, caring for, and using museum collections for research and educational purposes; and providing activities that support stewardship and preservation including marketing, outreach, and special property use rentals, such as filming or private events.
$503,897 spent33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,529,422.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $1.9M to $1.5M (−22%).
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: 2017 11% · 2018 6% · 2019 4% · 2020 13% · 2021 44% · 2022 29% · 2023 17% · 2024 10% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Callie Hawkins
CEO & executive director
Board chair
Richard Murphy
Board chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $264k → $333k.
5 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME’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
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
50% 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 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 30% · 2019 35% · 2020 34% · 2021 79% · 2022 23% · 2023 35% — 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 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME draws 60% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $456k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $450k on record.
- Department of the Interior$320k
- National Endowment for the Humanities$130k
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 PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME?
- PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,102,662 to it, the largest being NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ($348,581). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $2,102,662 in grants to PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME?
- NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES is the largest funder on record, with $348,581 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S COTTAGE AT THE SOLDIERS HOME find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing