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Elizabeth Born Linz Foundation at a glance

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Elizabeth Born Linz Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$279kEducation$121kFood & Nutrition$100kHousing & Shelter$95kYouth Development$62kHuman Services$26kEnvironment$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $107k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Scottish Rite Hospital$20,000
North Texas Food Bank$20,000
Genesis Women's Shelter$15,000
Girls Inc of Metropolitan Dallas$12,000
Mi Escuelita$10,000
Smile Train$10,000
Child Study Center$10,000
St Philip's School and Community Ct$10,000
Visiting Nurses Association$9,000
Vogel Alcove$6,000
Retina Research Foundation$6,000
HelpMeSee$5,000
Refuge City$5,000
Vickery Meadow Youth Development Fd$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GATEWAY OF GRACE: $4k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $8k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $8k → 14%REFUGE CITY: $1k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $10k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $8k → 14%Vogel Alcove: $6k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $5k → 14%VOGEL ALCOVE: $4k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$683k · 17 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$683k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+51%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NT
    NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +35%
  • TS
    TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN
    5× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +143%
  • CS
    Child Study Center
    5× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • TC
    TURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +158%
  • DA
    DALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +51%
  • PH
    PRISM HEALTH NORTH TEXAS
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Children's Health System of Texas

With more than 1 million patient visits each year, Children's Health is North Texas' leading pediatric health system and among the largest in the nation. For more than a century, our mission has been clear: make life better for children.…

Health
2
Texas Trees Foundation

The mission of texas trees foundation is to improve the health of cities and people through the transformative power of trees.

—
3
Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
4
Cook Children's Medical Center

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease and injury.

Health
5
Dell Children's Medical Group

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

Health
6
Cook Children's Health Plan

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
7
Texas Children's Urgent Care

To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.

Health
8
Cook Children's Physician Network

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
9
Vickery Meadow Learning Center

To equip non-english speaking adults and their young children with english literacy and life skills to promote self-sufficiency and the overall well- being of our students, their families and the greater community.

Human Services
10
Trinity School of Midland Texas

The mission of trinity school is to be a college preparatory community that provides a nurturing environment to enrich the mind, strengthen the body, enliven the soul, and inspire servant leadership.

Education
11
The Lamplighter School

Description of the organization's mission: dedicated to igniting the potential of each child in an ever-changing world, lamplighter engages children in the joy of learning through intellectual discovery in a creative, inclusive, and…

Education
12
Cook Children's Home Health

Knowing that every child's life is sacred, our promise is to improve the health of every child in our region through the prevention and treatment of illness, disease, and injury.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of North Texas; the most unlike its peers is Turtle Creek Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANKGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER: $62,000 · OtherGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTERMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC: $47,000 · OtherMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INCST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $39,000 · OtherST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTERGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $34,000 · OtherGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLASSMILE TRAIN INC: $31,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INCIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+4 more: $24,000 · Other+4 moreVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $71,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF T…TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $63,000 · HealthTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FO…RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $39,500 · HealthRETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONHELP ME SEE INC: $22,000 · HealthHELP ME SEE INCChild Study Center: $40,000 · EducationChild Stud…LIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE: $25,000 · EducationLIFT LITER…VOGEL ALCOVE: $33,000 · Human ServicesVOGEL ALC…REFUGE CITY: $22,000 · Human ServicesREFUGE CI…GATEWAY OF GRACE: $3,500 · Human ServicesGATEWAY O…VICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $26,000 · PhilanthropyTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $6,000 · EnvironmentDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 · Environment
Other$357,000Health$195,500Education$65,000Human Services$58,500Philanthropy$26,000Environment$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS: $71,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN: $63,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMI ESCUELITA PRESCHOOL INC: $47,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetChild Study Center: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $39,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetST PHILIPS SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY CENTER: $39,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS: $34,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVOGEL ALCOVE: $33,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $31,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVICKERY MEADOW YOUTH DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION: $26,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetLIFT LITERACY INSTRUCTION FOR TEXAS DBA ASPIRE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetREFUGE CITY: $22,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetHELP ME SEE INC: $22,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NORTH TEXAS: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURTLE CREEK CONSERVANCY: $6,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDALLAS ARBORETUM AND BOTANICAL SOCIETY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Communities Foundatio…Texas Instruments Fou…The Dallas FoundationTexas Women's Foundat…United Way of Metropo…Katherine C Carmody C…Roy and Christine Stu…W P & Bulah Luse Foun…Hillcrest FoundationCelanese FoundationUnited Way WorldwideThe Ayco Charitable F…
Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Katherine C Carmody Charitable Tuw · Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable And · W P & Bulah Luse Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Celanese Foundation · United Way Worldwide · The Ayco Charitable Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Elizabeth Born Linz Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth Born Linz Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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