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Linder Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$94kAnimals$70kHealth$42kPublic Benefit$10kEnvironment$5kEducation$3kHousing & Shelter$258Other$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$356k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OMAHA CHILDREN'S MUSEUM$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $258) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPEN DOOR MISSION: $258 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

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Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Science & Tech
2
Museum of Nebraska Art

The museum of nebraska art (mona) celebrates the history of nebraska's visual art for diverse audiences. mona collects, preserves, researches, exhibits, and interprets the work of artists who were born, lived, trained, or worked in…

Arts & Culture
3
Omaha Zoological Society

The omaha zoological society's mission is to inspire, educate, and engage people to serve as life-long stewards for animals, their habitats, and their conservation.

Animals
4
One Omaha

One omaha empowers people where they live with education, training, and engagement to develop thriving neighborhoods.

Community Improvement
5
Odell Nebraska Public Library
Education
6
Omaha Botanical Center Inc

We believe in thoughtful, ecologically-minded practices and the curation of accessible, educational, and inspirational experiences that enhance lives.

Environment
7
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
8
Lincoln Children's Museum

The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.

Arts & Culture
9
Unmc Physicians

Our mission is to lead the world in transforming lives to create a healthy future for all individuals and communities through premier educational programs, innovative research and extraordinary patient care.

Health
10
Hastings Museum

The mission of the hastings museum is to bring to life the natural and cultural history of hastings, adams county and the great plains of nebraska through the use of educational programs, exhibits and films.

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11
Edmundson Art Foundation Inc

The des moines art center engages diverse local, national, and international audiences with the art of today through its museum and school, adding to the cultural record through collections and programs. the des moines art center believes…

Arts & Culture
12
North Carolina Museum of Life & Science Inc

To create a place of lifelong learning where people, from young child to senior citizen, embrace science as a way of knowing about themselves, their community, and their world.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Omaha Children's Museum; the most unlike its peers is The Nature Conservancy. 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

10 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. 10 of the 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $70,000 · AnimalsOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATIONJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $56,000 · Arts & CultureJOSLYN ART MUSEUMOmaha Children's Museum: $10,000 · Arts & CultureOmaha Children's MuseumAMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN HEART ASSOC…Individual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVAN…OMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Other+5 more: $4,000 · Other+5 moreOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $25,000 · EducationOMAHA DISCOV…Nebraska Medicine: $17,000 · HealthNEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST: $10,000 · Public BenefitOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $258 · Human Services
Animals$70,000Arts & Culture$66,000Other$41,000Education$25,000Health$17,000Public Benefit$10,000Human Services$258

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOMAHA ZOO FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOSLYN ART MUSEUM: $56,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOMAHA DISCOVERY TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNebraska Medicine: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEBRASKA JOURNALISM TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOmaha Children's Museum: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOMAHA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOT SHOPS ART FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOPEN DOOR MISSION D/B/A OPEN DOOR MISSION & LYDIA HOUSE: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Hawks FoundationThe Lozier FoundationThe Sherwood Foundati…Union Pacific Foundat…Gilbert M and Martha …Peter Kiewit Foundati…Robert B Daugherty Fo…Weitz Family Foundati…Annette and Paul Smit…Richard Brooke Founda…The Charles and Mary …Gs Donor Advised Phil…
The Hawks FoundationNE17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hawks Foundation · The Lozier Foundation · The Sherwood Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Gilbert M and Martha H Hitchcock Foundation · Peter Kiewit Foundation · Robert B Daugherty Foundation · Weitz Family Foundation · Annette and Paul Smith Charitable Fund · Richard Brooke Foundation · The Charles and Mary Heider Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Linder Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linder Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Linder Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Linder Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 16 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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