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Gordon F & Jocelyn B Linke Foundation at a glance

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Gordon F & Jocelyn B Linke 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.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$319kArts & Culture$238kPhilanthropy$214kHuman Services$166kFood & Nutrition$101kAnimals$65kYouth Development$59kHealth$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k34 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS$45,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$35,000
Individual grant recipient$11,500
HSST HAYDENETTES HAYDEN SYNCRHO$10,125
RIDGEFIELD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$7,000
POPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY$5,000
ROSEMOUNT CENTER$5,000
ST ALBANS SCHOOL$5,000
ROAR FOUNDATION$5,000
CAPE CORAL ANIMAL CENTER$3,500
ABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL PTA$2,500
WASHINGTON WINTER SHOW$2,500
OLDE CRABS HOCKEY CLUB$2,500
MERRIMACK COLLEGE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 9%SEEING EYE: $100 → 4%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $500 → 17%MISSION OF MERCY: $500 → 6%RUTH'S HOUSE: $3k → 9%SPENCE-CHAPIN: $250 → 7%RUTH'S HOUSE: $3k → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 126 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

126 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 97 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
113

Total granted

$1.1M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+18%

Still filing today

46%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
EducationHealthAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    5× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +25%
  • RC
    Rosemount Center
    8× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +68%
  • HE
    HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS
    3× · 2019–2025 · $68k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • HM
    HILLWOOD MUSEUM
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • RM
    RISE MOUNT CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
11
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
12
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Seeing Eye Inc; the most unlike its peers is Md Anderson Foundation. 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

101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 101 of the 249 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/101
Grantees still filing
81/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Rosemount Center: $100,800 · OtherRosemount CenterTHE KENNEDY CENTER: $100,000 · OtherTHE KENNEDY CENTERAVON OLD FARMS: $81,000 · OtherAVON OLD FARMSBOWDOIN COLLEGE: $75,500 · OtherBOWDOIN COLLEGEIndividual grant recipient: $45,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $34,000 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C: $32,000 · Other+148 more: $453,925 · Other+148 moreBowdoin College: $115,000 · EducationBowdoin Colleg…MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $7,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $6,500 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · Education+11 more: $29,450 · Education+11 moreHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $67,500 · Arts & CultureTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $11,200 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $5,900 · Arts & CultureROAR FOUNDATION: $34,000 · AnimalsPOPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,750 · AnimalsRUFF HAVEN: $4,000 · AnimalsRISING STARR HORSE RESCUE CORP: $2,000 · AnimalsOPERATION PAWS FOR HOMES INC: $2,000 · Animals+2 more: $1,200 · AnimalsWashington Winter Show Inc: $27,000 · PhilanthropyOLDE CRABS HOCKEY CLUB INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $9,500 · HealthThe Danbury Hospital: $4,000 · HealthSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 · HealthSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,400 · Health+5 more: $4,200 · HealthBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD: $13,500 · Youth Development
Other$922,225Education$163,950Arts & Culture$84,600Animals$48,950Philanthropy$33,500Health$31,500Youth Development$13,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBowdoin College: $115,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRosemount Center: $100,800 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS: $67,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROAR FOUNDATION: $34,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWashington Winter Show Inc: $27,000 over 9y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD: $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $11,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND: $6,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLDE CRABS HOCKEY CLUB INC: $6,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetPOPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $5,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRUTHS HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Fort Dupont Ice Arena Inc: $4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Danbury Hospital: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUFF HAVEN: $4,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS-ON-WHEELS INC: $3,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRVNAHEALTH INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEFIELD ACADEMY INC: $3,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetABRAHAM LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL PTSA: $2,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUBURBAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women's Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISING STARR HORSE RESCUE CORP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION PAWS FOR HOMES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRATE FREDERICK INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAIR GIRLS INC: $1,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORWOOD SCHOOL INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN FREDERICK PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEBREW HOME OF GREATER WASHINGTON INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE REGION ACCESSIBLE BOATING INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACE UNIVERSITY: $1,000 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 Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds Rosemount Center ↗
  • Who funds HILLWOOD ESTATE MUSEUM & GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds ROAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Washington Winter Show Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
  • Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE RESCUE SQUAD INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds OLDE CRABS HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds POPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗

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.

Pf & Rj Morganti Foun…Anna-Maria and Stephe…Clark-Winchcole Found…Fairfield County's Co…William E Cross Found…Diageo North America …Greater Washington Co…Synchrony FoundationNorwitt Family Charit…The Scott and Patrice…The Ayco Charitable F…Union Savings Bank Fo…
Pf & Rj Morganti FoundationNY20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William E Cross Foundation Inc · Diageo North America Foundation Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation · The Scott and Patrice Brickman Family Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc

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 Gordon F & Jocelyn B Linke Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gordon F & Jocelyn B Linke Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Frederick Arts Council Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Downtown Frederick Partnership Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
  • The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Danbury Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Home of Greater Washington Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Suburban Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 249 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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