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Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis

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.

$39k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$273k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthEducationRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving13$39k8%
FY202413$39k8%
FY202313$33k15%
FY202214$35k36%
FY202113$28k38%
FY20208$32k25%
FY20196$18k0%
FY201811$27k36%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$69kEnvironment$57kArts & Culture$41kHealth$28kReligion$24kFood & Nutrition$15kRecreation & Sports$14kHuman Services$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Everglades Foundation Inc$56,50080%
Gulfshore Playhouse Inc$20,50080%
University of Chicago$18,50070%
Naples United Church of Christ$14,0005n/a
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$12,00060%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$10,00040%
Hayward United Methodist Church Inc$9,5003n/a
Onegoal$9,00030%
Park West Cooperative Nursery School$9,0003n/a
Pine Lake Sailing School Inc$8,50053%
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All grantees of Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Everglades Foundation Inc$56,50080%
Gulfshore Playhouse Inc$20,50080%
University of Chicago$18,50070%
Naples United Church of Christ$14,0005n/a
Harry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc$12,00060%
Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago$10,00040%
Hayward United Methodist Church Inc$9,5003n/a
Onegoal$9,00030%
Park West Cooperative Nursery School$9,0003n/a
Pine Lake Sailing School Inc$8,50053%
The Medical College of Wisconsin Inc$8,00030%
Chicago Children's Museum$7,50020%
Face the Future Foundation$5,20022%
Chenequa Foundation$5,00054%
Pcd Ks Foundation$5,00020%
Hayward Sports Center Inc$5,00011%
Christopher House$4,00020%
Chicago Children's Advocacy Center$3,90010%
Francis W Parker School$3,00010%
The Boxcar Tour Foundation$3,0001n/a
Hayward Community Food Shelf Inc$3,00021%
Museum of Contemporary Art$2,50010%
Concern Worldwide (Us) Inc$2,5001n/a
Hayward Library Foundation Ltd$2,0001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($53k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $56,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGulfshore Playhouse Inc: $20,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $18,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHarry Chapin Food Bank of Southwest Florida Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOnegoal: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPine Lake Sailing School Inc: $8,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetThe Medical College of Wisconsin Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Children's Museum: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFace the Future Foundation: $5,200 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetChenequa Foundation: $5,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetPcd Ks Foundation: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHayward Sports Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetChristopher House: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Children's Advocacy Center: $3,900 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFrancis W Parker School: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHayward Community Food Shelf Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMuseum of Contemporary Art: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan ChicagoIL13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis

How much does Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis give?
Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis reported 13 grants totaling $39,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (24%), Environment (20%), Arts & Culture (15%).
Who are Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Everglades Foundation Inc ($57k), Gulfshore Playhouse Inc ($21k), University of Chicago ($19k).
Does Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, The Chicago Community Trust, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
Where is Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis based?
Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis is based in FL.

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 33 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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