· Private foundation
Linden 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CURE INTERNATIONAL | $2,500 |
| LEHIGH COUNTY CONFERENCES OF CHURCHES | $2,500 |
| THE LYNFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| QUAKERTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF THE LV | $2,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF LEHIGH VALLEY | $2,500 |
| ALS ASSOCIATION | $1,500 |
| KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| BETTY LOU'S PANTRY | $1,500 |
| CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON | $1,500 |
| BUCKS COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $1,500 |
| ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION | $1,500 |
| SIXTH STREET SHELTER | $1,000 |
| NEW BETHANY MINISTRIES | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Linden Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +75% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- LRLOVE RAN RED FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $25k · revenue +36%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY7× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +360%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC8× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +75%
Funded once
DIRECT RELIEFone grant, 2022 · $34k · revenue +8%- GSGLOBAL SERVICES MISSIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- CGCASA GUADALUPE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +62%
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 mission of lenape valley foundation is to partner with members of our community encountering mental health, substance use, intellectual or developmental challenges as they pursue their personal aspirations and an enhanced quality of…
To serve people through a ministry of love, compassion, and mercy in the name of our lord, jesus christ.
Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.
Victory house of lehigh valley is committed to addressing the challenges faced by men and veterans in their transition from homelessness. they are provided shelter services and supportive resources to move toward independence in the…
We partner with people with disabilities, people with other barriers, young adults, children, and families to pursue their hopes and dreams through strengthening workplace abilities, building life skills, and developing meaningful…
See schedule oto create a better world by serving people in need by operating food pantries, homeless shelters, a domestic violence shelter, affordable housing communities, senior living, assisted living and skilled care facilities, a home…
Jewish family service of the lehigh valley, guided by jewish values, helps individuals and families to live healthier, more stable lives by providing social services, professional counseling, education, and community programs. our vision…
To coordinate services among private and government agencies for specialized populations to ensure service continuity, reduce duplication, and assist individuals and families in accessing appropriate mental health, intellectual…
Lri is a consumer-driven organization that advocates and promotes independent living for persons with disabilities. lri is the center for independent living (cil) in the philadelphia area which advocates for and works with persons with…
Lifewell aims to provide hope and recovery through our person-centered residential, outpatient, housing and community living programs. we provide integrated healthcare services to low-income adults with behavioral and physical illness and…
We heal, comfort and care for the people of our community by providing advanced and compassionate health care of superior quality and value supported by education and clinical research.
Habitat for humanity of the lehigh valley, inc. engages in the construction, rehabilitation, critical home repair, and the sale of housing to economically disadvantaged people on a nonprofit basis in the lehigh valley area of pennsylvania.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Home of Easton Inc and the most unlike its peers is Living the Dream Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 48 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
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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds LOVE RAN RED FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE LEHIGH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOME OF EASTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BETHANY INC ↗
- Who funds BETTY LOUS PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CURE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA GUADALUPE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT OF LEHIGH VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER BUCKS LIONS KIDNEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BIKE WORKS ↗
- Who funds Living the Dream Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT OF EASTON 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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · Frederick H Bedford Jr & Margaret S Bedford Charitable Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Martin D Cohen Family Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Air Products Foundation · William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation · Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation · Ross J Born and Wendy G Born Charitable Trust · The Century Fund Trust
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 Linden 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.