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Linn Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $75,000 |
| CHRIST CHAPEL BIBLE CHURCH | $60,000 |
| LIVING ON THE EDGE | $50,000 |
| R REACH | $10,000 |
| SEARCH MINISTRIES | $10,000 |
| COME AND SEE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WOODMAN VALLEY CHAPEL | $2,500 |
| FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,036 |
| COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
| E3 PARTNERS | $1,000 |
| HOLIDAYS AND HEROES | $500 |
| STUDENT MOBILIZATION | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- DTDallas Theological Seminary8× · 2017–2024 · $615k · revenue +81%
- LOLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $268k · revenue +81%
- CGCollege Golf Fellowship8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +155%
Funded once
- SCSOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $20k
- VMVapor Ministries Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +36%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
To Identify, Affirm, Train, and Mobilize Ephesians 4 evangelists to equip the church for evangelism.
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…
Christian world-wide missions and ministries to see lives changed by the power and truth of Gods Word.
As part of the body of Christ, to see that every young person in every people group in every nation has the opportunity to make an informed decision to be a follower of Jesus Christ and become a part of the local church.
World of Opportunity is an evangelical ministry that supports missionaries in the United States and around the world as they bring the Word of the Lord into peoples lives. The missionaries supported by World of Opportunity share the Gospel…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
Our mission is in our name - Reaching Souls. Our core driving force, the reason we exist as an organization, is to reach souls for Christ. Our strategic purpose is to reach the maximum number of people for Christ in the least amount of…
Far Reaching Ministries (FRM) was founded to carry the Gospel Jesus Christ to the world with discipleship as our primary objective. We plant and edify evangelical churches, found Bible schools, gather intimate small groups, and sustain…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
To proclaim gospel of jesus.
The mission of Selah International Counseling Ministries is to glorify God as we serve and equip His church, providing leadership and service through counseling, counseling resources, and counseling training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Supporting Hope Inc and the most unlike its peers is Covenant House Georgia Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Dallas Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds Living on the Edge Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds RAMESH RICHARD EVANGELISM AND CHURCH HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTING HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CHRISTIAN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Vapor Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds College Golf Fellowship ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds EvanTell Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS CABOS MISSIONS FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAYS & HEROES ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds Cabo Missions for Christ ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Servant Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · The Signatry Charitable Trust · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Linn Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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