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Linder Family 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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$79kYouth Development$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kAnimals$20kHuman Services$16kInternational$13kRecreation & Sports$12kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,500
Median grant
8
States reached
$804k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN IL FOOD BANK$20,000
BERNIE'S BOOK BANK$15,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT$5,000
ANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION$5,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$5,000
LA REGIONAL FOOD BANK$5,000
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
MAYO FOUNDATION$2,500
CINCINNATI ZOO$2,500
ASPCA$2,000
CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION$1,000
HEAR2HEART PET LIFELINE$1,000
TOWN OF DELAVAN FIRE DEPARTMENT$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$500
HARRISBURG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$345
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MATTHIAS ACADEMY: $1k → 10%WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION: $5k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
UT
MD
SC
DC
HI
MS
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 11 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$171k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+48%

Still filing today

73%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NI
    NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK
    6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +8%
  • BB
    BERNIE'S BOOK BANK
    5× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +77%
  • CD
    CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • K
    KC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • T
    TB
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • WC
    WARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its 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.

1
Michigan Humane Society

To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.

Animals
2
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
3
Wisconsin Humane Society

The mission of the Wisconsin Humane Society is to make a difference for animals and the people who love them.

Animals
4
Animal Care Sanctuary

Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…

Animals
5
Washington Humane Society

The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…

Animals
6
Michigan Anti-Cruelty Society

To maintain and operate a hospital, ambulance and veterinary services for the care of animals. the maintenance and operation of kennels and suitable chambers for the humane destruction of wounded animals.

Animals
7
Santa Barbara Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…

Animals
8
American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals
9
Animal Wellness Action

To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.

Human Services
10
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Friends for Animals of Metro Detroit

The friends are dedicated to the rescue, protection, and adoption of companion animals in need while inspiring the human-animal bond. we meet our mission by:-saving 100% of healthy and treatable animals.-providing high-quality animal care…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Illinois Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is The Michigan Glass Project. 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

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 37 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION: $10,202 · OtherCHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATIONKC: $10,000 · OtherKCTB: $10,000 · OtherTBCINCINNATI ZOO: $5,500 · OtherCINCINNATI ZOOLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5,000 · OtherLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENTHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $5,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INCTOWN OF DELAVAN FIRE DEPARTMENT: $3,500 · OtherBK: $3,000 · OtherTINA'S ITALIAN BAKE SHOP: $3,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONThe Michigan Glass Project: $4,000 · Other+12 more: $14,545 · Other+12 moreNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $70,500 · Food & NutritionNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANKBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $49,136 · Youth DevelopmentBERNIE'S BOOK BANKANIMAL WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANE: $2,500 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsHeart2heart Pet Life Line Inc: $1,000 · Animals+1 more: $261 · AnimalsMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION: $7,802 · Human ServicesWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,500 · InternationalHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$83,747Food & Nutrition$70,500Youth Development$49,136Animals$13,761Human Services$12,802International$12,500Philanthropy$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK: $70,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BOOK BANK: $49,136 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO DISTRICT GOLF ASSOCIATION: $10,202 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMATTHIAS ACADEMY CORPORATION: $7,802 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWARRIOR CANINE CONNECTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NORTHWOODS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michigan Glass Project: $4,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALTUS ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL MISSISSIPPI INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart2heart Pet Life Line Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetYELLOWSTONE FOREVER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHRYSALIS INITIATIVE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH SUBURBAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $261 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Warrior Canine Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
05Through 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 37 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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