Who We Are

The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is a nonprofit foundation with more than two decades of experience and a firm dedication to understanding and sharing Lincoln’s legacy with the world.

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What We Do

With your support, the Lincoln Presidential Foundation recognizes, creates, and funds ambitious people, places, and projects inspired by Lincoln’s life and leadership and what he called the “unfinished work” of freedom and democracy.

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Our Impact

Lincoln Leadership Prize honorees
(including four Heads of State)

Papers of Abraham Lincoln digitized with Foundation support

Visits to exhibits sponsored by the Foundation

Students benefiting from Field Trip scholarships

Artifacts in our one-of-a-kind Collection

Funds raised for programs and projects

Featured Events

Extended: “Lincoln Leadership Portraits” Exhibit

through August 31, 2023 -Portraits of past Lincoln Leadership Prize recipients Archbishop Desmond Tutu, The Little Rock Nine and Neil DeGrasse Tyson from the Foundation’s collection are currently on display as part of an exhibit at Springfield and Central Illinois African American History Museum.

Lincoln Leadership Prize Dinner

June 14, 2023 -The Lincoln Presidential Foundation is pleased to announce that on Wednesday, June 14th from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. CT it will award its prestigious 2023 Lincoln Leadership Prize to Jim Reynolds, founder, chairman and CEO of Loop Capital, for his track record of mentorship, service, and philanthropy

"Akin to Lincoln" Exhibit

through June 30, 2023 - Select artifacts from our collection that were once owned by Abraham Lincoln’s family, colleagues, neighbors, and admirers are part of an exhibit in the visitor center at the Lincoln Home National Historic Site.

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