· Private foundation
Linn 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALLAS THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $100,000 |
| CHRIST CHAPEL BIBLE CHURCH | $94,500 |
| LIVING ON THE EDGE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| R REACH | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE GOLF FELLOWSHIP | $2,500 |
| FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE | $1,500 |
| E3 PARTNERS | $1,000 |
| HOLIDAYS AND HEROES | $500 |
| STUDENT MOBILIZATION | $500 |
| FIRST LIBERTY | $500 |
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 (FY18–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DTDallas Theological Seminary9× · 2017–2025 · $715k · revenue +81%
- LOLiving on the Edge Ministries Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $318k · revenue +81%
- CGCollege Golf Fellowship9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · 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%
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.
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…
Reaching and teaching pastors in the majority world.
With a desire to see the Gospel proclaimed in all nations, we exist to make and multiply disciples of the next generation through the vehicles of church-planting missions and missional leadership training.
To proclaim gospel of jesus.
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…
to spread the gospel to the world by planting and serving churches, training local Christian leaders and to transform the world through prayer,
The Convention of Full Gospel Churches exists to be a Holy Spirit-empowered, Christ-centered fellowship of churches, faithfully proclaiming the Word of God, ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit, equipping the saints for service, and…
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…
Leadership Revolution is a ministry founded to develop leaders globally who will spread the gospel and make disciples in their arena of influence.
Bible Translation and acts of Christian Services
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 28 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 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 College Golf Fellowship ↗
- Who funds Vapor Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds E3 Partners Ministry ↗
- Who funds FORT WORTH STOCK SHOW SYNDICATE ↗
- Who funds LOS CABOS MISSIONS FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds EvanTell Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLIDAYS & HEROES ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds Cabo Missions for Christ ↗
- Who funds FIRST LIBERTY INSTITUTE ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Linn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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