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Garlinghouse Foundation Inc

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.

$51k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$202kReligion$111kEducation$49kPhilanthropy$27kHealth$25kArts & Culture$20kPublic Benefit$20kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$695k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION$15,000
CAMP MITCHELL$7,500
FELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF ROGERS$5,000
UAFS FOUNDATION$5,000
ST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$5,000
HEBER SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT$3,000
BREAKING BREAD COMMUNITY KITCHEN$2,500
ST THOMAS UNIVERSITY PARISH$2,500
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 (FY18–25, $146k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $51k → 13%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $15k → 13%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $10k → 13%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$462k · 21 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
4

Total granted

$462k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
-1%

Still filing today

19%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • AA
    AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $146k · revenue +32%
  • SC
    SANIBEL CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $35k
  • UF
    UAFS FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $27k

Funded once

  • DC
    DEWITT COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • TL
    The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue -26%
  • BH
    Baptist Health Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -1%
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
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
4
Houghton University

Houghton university provides an academically challenging, christ-centered education in the liberal arts and sciences to students from diverse traditions and economic backgrounds and equips them to lead and labor as scholar-servants in a…

Education
5
Belhaven University

Belhaven university prepares students academically and spiritually to serve jesus christ in their careers, in human relationships, and in the world of ideas.

Education
6
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
7
Carleton College

See schedule o.founded in 1866, carleton college is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of 2,007 students located in the historic river town of northfield, minnesota. nationally recognized as the nation's top college for…

Education
8
Ashland University

Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…

Education
9
Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Mitchell hamline school of law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. it is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also…

Education
10
Saint Martin's University

Saint martin's students learn to make a positive difference in their lives and in the lives of others through the interaction of faith, reason, and service. the university honors both the sacredness of the individual and the significance…

Education
11
Carthage College

Seeking truth, building strength, inspiring service - together

Education
12
Mcdaniel College Inc

Mcdaniel college is a diverse student-centered community committed to excellence in the liberal arts & sciences and professional studies with careful mentoring and attention to the individual. mcdaniel changes lives. we challenge students…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hillsdale College. 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

8 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. 8 of the 27 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
4/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANIBEL CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURC: $34,500 · OtherSANIBEL CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCUAFS FOUNDATION: $26,500 · OtherUAFS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEOA CHILDREN'S HOUSE: $24,000 · OtherEOA CHILDREN'S HOUSETHE CALL IN CLEBURNE COUNTY: $24,000 · OtherTHE CALL IN CLEBURNE COUNTYTHE VILLAGE CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherTHE VILLAGE CHURCHSANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $20,000 · OtherSANIBEL HISTORICAL MUSEUMGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $20,000 · OtherGOLISANO CHILDREN'S HOSPITALFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $19,000 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCHFRIENDS IN SERVICE HERE FISH: $12,500 · OtherST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH: $10,000 · OtherFELLOWSHIP CHURCH OF ROGERS: $10,000 · OtherDEWITT COMMUNITY CHURCH: $10,000 · Other+6 more: $26,000 · Other+6 moreAGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION INC: $146,000 · Human ServicesAGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATI…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $24,000 · EducationHILLSDALE…MARYVILLE COLLEGE: $17,000 · EducationMARYVILLE…THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Public BenefitCAMP MITCHELL INC: $9,500 · Recreation & SportsThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc: $6,000 · PhilanthropyBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $4,962 · Health
Other$281,500Human Services$148,000Education$41,000Public Benefit$20,000Recreation & Sports$9,500Philanthropy$6,000Health$4,962

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 budgetAGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION INC: $146,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $24,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMARYVILLE COLLEGE: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MITCHELL INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $4,962 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE: $2,000 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.

  • Who funds AGELESS AVIATION DREAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE HEARTLAND INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP MITCHELL INC ↗
  • Who funds The Legacy Foundation At Shell Point Inc ↗
  • Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE OF SYRACUSE ↗

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Garlinghouse Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Garlinghouse Foundation Inc. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 27 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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