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Link 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.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.6MYouth Development$700kRecreation & Sports$650kReligion$202kArts & Culture$100kHuman Services$50kCommunity Improvement$5kPublic Benefit$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH$75,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAYO CLINIC: $200k → 9%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $500k → 14%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 11%JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $100k → 13%WMC FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%JACK LINK'S AQUATIC & ACTIVITY CENTER: $350k → 12%BADGER INSTITUTE: $5k → 17%FAVRE 4 HOPE FOUNDATION: $50k → 19%SECOND CENTURY HABITAT FUND: $4k → 10%MAYO CLINIC: $200k → 9%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $200k → 14%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%JACK LINK'S AQUATIC & ACTIVITY CENTER: $250k → 12%MAYO CLINIC: $200k → 9%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $127k → 12%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%CALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $75k → 12%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%JACK LINK'S AQUATIC & ACTIVITY CENTER: $50k → 12%MAYO CLINIC: $100k → 9%BOCA RATON REGIONAL HOSPITAL: $10k → 11%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of Link Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Link Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 7 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
6

Total granted

$2.5M
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
0%

Still filing today

29%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitEnvironmentOther
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

  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $700k
  • JL
    JACK LINK'S AQUATIC & ACTIVITY CENTER
    3× · 2017–2020 · $650k
  • CC
    CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $400k

Funded once

  • US
    UDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • F4
    FAVRE 4 HOPE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -66% · 33% of their budget
  • BR
    Boca Raton Regional Hospital Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +54%
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
South Florida Baptist Hospital Inc

To improve the health of all we serve through community-owned health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. AS a part of BayCare Health System, South Florida Baptist Hospital is the best place to work,…

Health
2
St Joseph's Hospital of Tampa Foundation Inc

St. joseph's hospitals foundation secures, manages and stewards philanthropic support to benefit the health care mission of st. joseph's hospital, st. joseph's women's hospital, st. joseph's children's hospital of tampa, st. joseph's…

Health
3
Mayo Clinic Group Return

To inspire hope and contribute to health and well-being by providing the best care to every patient through integrated clinical practice, education, and research.

Health
4
Baptist Health Care Corporation

The mission of baptist health care is helping people throughout life's journey.

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5
Bristol Hospital Development Foundation Inc

The bristol hospital development foundation is dedicated to the financial support of bristol hospital and health care group through implementation and enhancement of hospital and affiliate-based development and community relations…

Health
6
Botsford General Hospital

Commitment to excellence and quality in the delivery of personal and compassionate health care.

Health
7
Shands Jacksonville Healthcare Inc

As a part of UF Health, the organization's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across…

Health
8
South Florida Baptist Hospital Foundation Inc

South Florida Baptist Hospital Foundation, Inc. supports South Florida Baptist Hospital in carrying out its community mission by promoting and procuring philanthropic support, practicing prudent fiscal management, and continually assessing…

Philanthropy
9
St Joseph's Hospital Inc

To improve the health of all we serve through community-owned health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. AS a part of BayCare Health System, St. Joseph's Hospital is the best place to work, receive and…

Health
10
Baystate Wing Hospital Corporation

The mission of the organization is to improve the health of the people in our communities every day, with quality and compassion.

Health
11
Baptist Memorial Medical Group Inc

Baptist memorial medical group, inc. is a provider of ambulatory hospital services in support of its mission of providing health care to the community. baptist memorial medical group, inc. provides direct primary care medical services…

Health
12
Baptist Health Foundation Inc

To provide funds in the form of gifts, grants, and services to baptist health and other charitable organizations in furtherance of their scientific, literary, and educational purposes.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Favre 4 Hope Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
3/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $700,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAJACK LINK'S AQUATIC & ACTIVITY CENTER: $650,000 · OtherJACK LINK'S AQUATIC & ACTIVITY CENTERCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $400,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONCALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCH: $202,000 · OtherCALVARY LUTHERAN CHURCHMAYO CLINIC: $200,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Other+2 more: $55,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $700,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · HealthJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPIT…+1 more: $10,000 · HealthBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $115,000 · Community ImprovementBADGER INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Public BenefitSECOND CENTURY HABITAT FUND INC: $3,500 · Environment
Other$2,307,000Health$910,000Community Improvement$115,000Public Benefit$5,000Environment$3,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAYO CLINIC: $700,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUDT - SEAL MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAVRE 4 HOPE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWMC FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBADGER INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND CENTURY HABITAT FUND INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Link Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Link 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 14 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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