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Gail C Link Education Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$69k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
11
Grants FY2024
9
Organizations funded FY2023
22%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
9 to 10
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$972k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Gail C Link Education Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving11$69k27%
FY20239$54k22%
FY202210$65k20%
FY20219$77k33%
FY202010$64kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$328k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Carson-Newman University$9,00030%
Morehouse College$3,00010%
Wingate University$3,00010%
Southern Adventist University$3,0001n/a

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($310k), not named here.

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.

Watson-Brown Foundation IncGA14.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Watson-Brown Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Gail C Link Education Trust?

Find your warmest path to Gail C Link Education Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Gail C Link Education Trust

How much does Gail C Link Education Trust give?
Gail C Link Education Trust reported 11 grants totaling $69,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Gail C Link Education Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Gail C Link Education Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Carson-Newman University ($9k), Morehouse College ($3k), Wingate University ($3k).
Does Gail C Link Education Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gail C Link Education Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gail C Link Education Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Watson-Brown Foundation Inc, The Blackbaud Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Gail C Link Education Trust based?
Gail C Link Education Trust is based in TN.

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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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