· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| FACE THE FUTURE FOUNDATION | $2,600 |
| CONCERN WORLDWIDE | $2,500 |
| KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERISTY | $2,500 |
| MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN | $2,500 |
| ANN & ROBERT H LURIE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL OF CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $2,500 |
| PINE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC | $2,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,500 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE | $1,500 |
| RCMA | $1,500 |
| CHENEQUA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +226%
GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $21k · revenue +234%
University of Chicago7× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- HSHAYWARD SPORTS CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +186%
CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +44%- FWFrancis W Parker Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
Chicago Free School provides pre-kindergarten through 8th grade instruction and support activities. The faculty consists of qualified indiviuals with the appropriate education and experiende to provide students with the education that…
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
To Prepare Students for Success in Four-Year Colleges.
We value excellence and innovation in clinical and basic research, coordinated and comprehensive patient care, ongoing physician education, and evidence-based child advocacy. our goal is to provide leadership in endeavors that promote the…
Providing and promoting waldorf education from early childhood through the twelfth grade and promoting waldorf education through community outreach.
The operation of a children's museum.
The chicago psychoanalytic institute transforms the lives of individuals, families and communities, using psychoanalytic knowledge to help them grow and thrive.
The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.
Provide pediatric and subspecialty surgical, research, and educational services.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
The chicago high school for the arts (chiarts) develops the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory…
Stanley manne children's research institute strives to generate new knowledge and advance the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric diseases.
How this is measured
23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds PARK WEST COOPERATIVE NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PINE LAKE SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Children's Museum ↗
- Who funds Face the Future Foundation ↗
- Who funds CHENEQUA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PCD KS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAYWARD SPORTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
- Who funds THE BOXCAR TOUR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAYWARD COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds CONCERN WORLDWIDE (US) INC ↗
- Who funds HAYWARD LIBRARY FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN BETHANY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linden Foundation Gary & Janet Ellis. Bigger dots raise more.
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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