Indiana · Nonprofit
The Lincoln Collection Endowment
The Lincoln Collection Endowment (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being LUPKE FOUNDATION INC AGENCY ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $679k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $12M
What The Lincoln Collection Endowment does
Mission
The organization is a perpetual trust organized to provide financial support for the Abraham Lincoln Collection consisting of three dimensional items at the Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis, IN and documents, images, and other two dimensional items at the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, IN.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provided financial support to the Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana, Inc. for management services, Lincoln Scholar Program services, production and distribution of the Lincoln Lore publication, and presentation of lecture series programs.
$316,694 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $316,694.
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 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $9.5M (−15%).
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.
0% of The Lincoln Collection Endowment’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Ris Taylor
Chairperson/Trustee
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
Left out of every figure on this page: $165k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money The Lincoln Collection Endowment raised.
From the IRS filings of The Lincoln Collection Endowment’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.
Where its funders are
100% of The Lincoln Collection Endowment's grant income comes from Indiana funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
The Lincoln Collection Endowment runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Lincoln Collection Endowment
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 Indiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Friends of the Lincoln Collection of Indiana Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Lincoln Collection Endowment: 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 The Lincoln Collection Endowment?
- The Lincoln Collection Endowment (Indiana) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $2,500 to it, the largest being LUPKE FOUNDATION INC AGENCY ($2,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Lincoln Collection Endowment have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $2,500 in grants to The Lincoln Collection Endowment.
- Who is the largest funder of The Lincoln Collection Endowment?
- LUPKE FOUNDATION INC AGENCY is the largest funder on record, with $2,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Lincoln Collection Endowment find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Indiana. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 1 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