Virginia · Nonprofit
THE LINCOLN FORUM
THE LINCOLN FORUM (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being THE SHAARA FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE LINCOLN FORUM is better cushioned than half of the 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,664 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Memorial Health Fundshared funders
- The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairmanportfolio match
- The Good Neighbor Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 FORUM’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. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $200 → $1k.
From the IRS filings of THE LINCOLN FORUM’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
THE LINCOLN FORUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 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
THE LINCOLN FORUM draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Memorial Health Fundshared fundersPA · backs 28 organizations that share your funders
- The Jefferson Legacy Foundation Sydney N Stokes Jr Chairmanportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Good Neighbor Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Thomas D Klingenstein Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pearle Francis Finigan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Conservative Partnership Instituteportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnatiportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William G Pomeroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lewis and Clark Trail Heritage Fdtnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Historical Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cellini Family Fund Trust Co William F Cellini Jrportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Touba Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE LINCOLN FORUM
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LINCOLN FORUM: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LINCOLN FORUM?
- THE LINCOLN FORUM (Virginia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,200 to it, the largest being THE SHAARA FOUNDATION INC ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE LINCOLN FORUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,200 in grants to THE LINCOLN FORUM.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LINCOLN FORUM?
- THE SHAARA FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LINCOLN FORUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing