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Linde Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k51 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k45 grants · $4.9M
- $250k+8 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $2,830,048 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $2,700,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,000,000 |
| BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $1,200,000 |
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $1,025,000 |
| NOW AND THERE | $500,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND | $350,000 |
| NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION HOTLINE FUND | $250,000 |
| SOCIEDAD LATINA INC | $215,000 |
| EDVESTORS INC | $200,000 |
| BALLET THEATRE OF BOSTON DBA JOSE MATEO'S BALLET THEATRE | $200,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC-C3 | $200,000 |
| WEST END HOUSE INC | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON | $195,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $185,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $909k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
103 repeat relationships — 96 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2021–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +34%
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +35%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- BIBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Centerone grant, 2020 · $2.0M
- DCDana-Farber Cancer Instituteone grant, 2020 · $1.1M
- EEdVestorsone grant, 2020 · $200k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…
Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
122 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 122 of the 225 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre of Boston Inc D/B/A Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CITY SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Resilient Coders Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Innovators for Purpose Inc ↗
- Who funds RENNIE CENTER FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH & POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds URBANO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CITY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds GRUB STREET INC ↗
- Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ORIGINATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HACK DIVERSITY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Barr Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Edvestors Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Linde Family 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.
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Acre Family Child Care Inc — 45% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Rize Massachusetts Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
- Masscreative Inc — 26% of income from government
- Building Pathways Inc — 23% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc) — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Urbano Project Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boston City Singers Inc — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Brighter Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- Ballet Theatre of Boston Inc D/B/a Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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