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Judith Linnell Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$77k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182021.

Arts & Culture$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MHealth$79kHuman Services$50kEducation$48kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$19,237
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Broward Performing Arts Foundation Inc$19,237
UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY$19,237
BONNET HOUSE INC$19,237
TOMORROWS RAINBOW$19,237
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELPMENT CENTER: $50k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 7 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$1.4M
$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+63%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • BH
    BONNET HOUSE INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $114k · revenue +52%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $62k · revenue +46%
  • TR
    TOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $59k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • FF
    FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +63%
  • SO
    SYMPHONY OF THE AMERICAS INC
    one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -26%

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Funding Arts Broward Inc

Funding arts broward supports, sustains and enriches the arts in our community.

Arts & Culture
2
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
3
Bok Tower Gardens Inc

To inspire a better and more beautiful world by sharing edward bok's legacy.

4
Southwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Chorus Association Inc

We aspire to be the premier music organization serving our communities by providing quality, professional performances and educational opportunities.

Arts & Culture
5
Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce

Founded in 1910, the greater fort lauderdale chamber of commerce is the oldest and largest business organization in broward county and it is apparent that throughout our history we have transitioned to better serve the business community.

6
The Broward Alliance

To lead greater fort lauderdale and broward county in building a stronger and more diversified economy.

7
Friends of Boca Grande Community Center Inc

Create the best cultural and educational programs for boca grande.

Human Services
8
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc

Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.

Education
9
Banner Alzheimer's Foundation

Established in 2006, the banner alzheimer's foundation (baf) secures and stewards charitable gifts to advance the mission of banner alzheimer's institute (bai), including groundbreaking research initiatives and pioneering prevention…

Health
10
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
11
Florida Public Broadcasting Service Inc

To provide educational programming services.

Arts & Culture
12
Banner Health Foundation

Established in 2001, banner health foundation secures and stewards charitable contributions to advance banner health's mission, investing in facilities and programs that support advancements in care, research, medical education, patient…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Broward County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tomorrow's Rainbow Inc. 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

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $1,109,237 · OtherBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INCBroward College — $47,500 · Other+1 more — $5,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INC — $1,020,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF BROWARD INCUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $61,737 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INCBONNET HOUSE INC — $114,237 · Arts & CultureTOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC — $59,237 · HealthHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 · HealthFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,161,737Philanthropy$1,081,737Arts & Culture$114,237Health$79,237Human Services$50,000Community Improvement$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBROWARD PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION INC — $1,109,237 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetBONNET HOUSE INC — $114,237 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC — $61,737 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTOMORROW'S RAINBOW INC — $59,237 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetFLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOLY CROSS HOSPITAL INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA HOUSE WASHINGTON DC INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSYMPHONY OF THE AMERICAS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hi Foundation IncFL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hi Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Judith Linnell Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 27%
  • United Way of Broward County Inc27% of income from government
  • Holy Cross Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Judith Linnell Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Judith Linnell Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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