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Linneman 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.

$213k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$32k
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, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$145kPhilanthropy$91kEnvironment$83kInternational$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$46kCivil Rights$42kEducation$36kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $189k
$15,765
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOLVE MECFS INITIATIVE$31,721
ALI FORNEY CENTER$31,721
WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH$31,496
AMERICARES$15,840
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$15,771
NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER$15,765
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL$15,748
NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER$15,748
TREVOR PROJECT$15,650
NAMINYC$8,184
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$7,889
NYC ANIMAL CARECONTROL$7,889
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 (FY25–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $16k → 14%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

VT
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC
HI
AL
FL
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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$343k · 8 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$343k
$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalCivil RightsHealthFood & NutritionScience & TechPublic BenefitOther
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

  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +24%
  • SM
    SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $52k · revenue +7%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $46k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC
    one grant, 2019 · $36k · revenue -35%
  • D
    Dogaholix
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • BR
    Black River Good Neighbors
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
2
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
3
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
4
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture
5
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
8
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
9
National Council of Jewish Women Incorporated

The national council of jewish women is a grassroots nonpartisan organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children and families.

Community Improvement
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
12
Pew Research Center

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan "fact tank" that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Research Center generates a foundation of facts that enriches the public dialogue and…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center; the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

27 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. 27 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
16/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $52,450 · OtherSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INCCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCDogaholix: $20,000 · OtherDogaholixNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $15,748 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTERBlack River Good Neighbors: $10,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherFOOD RESCUE US INC: $20,000 · OtherFOOD RESCUE US INCFeeding America: $15,000 · OtherFeeding AmericaALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $31,721 · OtherALI FORNEY CENTER INCREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $15,748 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALLCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $30,934 · Other+5 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $60,564 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATI…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $45,626 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCH…NEW ISRAEL FUND: $5,000 · InternationalPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,000 · InternationalWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $82,532 · Science & TechWoodwell Clima…NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,791 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN …HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMM…PERSON TO PERSON INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO P…TIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUND…TREVOR PROJECT INC: $36,447 · Civil RightsTREVOR PRO…NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $15,765 · Civil RightsNATIONAL I…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $9,369 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUST…BRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $30,000 · HealthNAMI National: $10,000 · HealthTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $35,748 · Education
Other$256,601International$116,190Science & Tech$82,532Philanthropy$65,791Civil Rights$61,581Health$40,000Education$35,748

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 budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $82,532 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $60,564 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC: $52,450 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $45,626 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $36,447 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $35,748 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBRING CHANGE 2 MIND: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,791 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $15,765 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $15,748 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: $15,748 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $9,369 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC: $8,184 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $4,472 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $2,500 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 Ayco Charitable F…The Chicago Community…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Linneman Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linneman Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Linneman Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Linneman 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 31 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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