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Linville Family 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
93
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$283k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

International$2.3MEducation$2.1MArts & Culture$1.2MEnvironment$745kHealth$680kAnimals$355kYouth Development$282kReligion$209kOther$0
02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k72 grants · $242k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $306k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $389k
  • $250k+1 grant · $283k
$4,500
Median grant
19
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$283,000
WESTON THEATRE COMPANY$110,000
EDUCATION MATTERS AFRICA FDN$100,000
COKER COLLEGE$79,000
INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION$50,000
WILDER MEMORIAL LIBRARY$50,000
EARTH JUSTICE$40,000
BROOKLYN BOATWORKS$30,000
HORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT$30,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS$25,000
OLD PARRISH CHURCH$25,000
LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NNE$25,000
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST$21,000
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS$20,340
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $5k → 9%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $2k → 9%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $2k → 9%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $1k → 6%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%CAMPHILL FOUNDATION: $500 → 6%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%RWANDA GIRLS INITIATIVE: $1k → 9%SAMUELS HOUSE INC: $5k → 13%THE COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 11%THE COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 11%THE COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 11%THE COLLABORATIVE: $1k → 11%FLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER: $10k → 13%FLORIDA KEYS CHILDRENS SHELTER: $4k → 13%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $3k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $3k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $5k → 17%FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES: $3k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
NH
WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 120 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

120 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2024, 40 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
41

Total granted

$8.2M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+19%

Still filing today

63%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $231k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • HK
    HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +44%
  • CU
    COKER UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $844k · revenue +23%
  • HO
    HORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $497k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of the Weston Community Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $51k · revenue +316%
  • OL
    OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC
    one grant, 2018 · $31k · revenue -23%
  • FI
    FL INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $28k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
7
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

8
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
10
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Public Media Group Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hartsville Museum 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Policy Research and AdvocacyPublic Library OperationsLocal History MuseumsImmigrant Worker SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsAffordable Housing Developm…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…School Parent OrganizationsYouth Development ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community College Foundatio…Developmental Disabilities …Pregnancy Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Women & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsYouth Development CentersCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%7%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/115
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,450

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

109 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 109 of the 175 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/109
Grantees still filing
76/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $1,729,417 · InternationalHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONALHORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND — $497,000 · InternationalHORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEV…+2 more — $18,000 · InternationalCOKER UNIVERSITY — $843,500 · EducationCOKER UNIVERSITYEDUCATION MATTERS AFRICA FOUNDATION — $716,667 · EducationEDUCATION MATTERS AFRI…The Trustees of Princeton University — $100,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Prince…+10 more — $84,500 · EducationOLD PARRISH CHURCH — $202,000 · OtherOLD PARRISH CHURCHPLANNED PARENTHOOD NNE — $175,500 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD NNEWILDER MEMORIAL LIBRARY — $125,000 · OtherWESTON THEATRE COMPANY — $110,000 · OtherBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $94,000 · OtherTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $118,000 · Other+111 more — $1,636,126 · Other+111 moreTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER — $734,400 · Arts & CultureTHE WESTON PLAYH…INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC — $232,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL GA…The Bronx Museum of the Arts — $52,340 · Arts & CultureFriends of the Weston Community Inc — $51,000 · Arts & CultureWeston Community Association Inc — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $139,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreEARTHJUSTICE — $269,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC — $77,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $70,500 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND — $46,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $29,000 · EnvironmentKey West and Lower Keys Fishing Guides Association Inc — $25,000 · EnvironmentOCEANA INC — $25,000 · Environment+8 more — $43,000 · EnvironmentNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC — $210,300 · HealthANCHORS AWEIGH CLUB INC — $50,500 · HealthMy Community Nurse Project Inc — $40,000 · HealthNAMI National — $30,000 · Health+3 more — $9,500 · HealthKITE'S NEST INC — $116,000 · Community ImprovementLA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Community Improvement
International$2,244,417Education$1,745,167Other$2,460,626Arts & Culture$1,258,740Environment$584,500Health$340,300Community Improvement$141,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL — $1,729,417 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCOKER UNIVERSITY — $843,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER — $734,400 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetEDUCATION MATTERS AFRICA FOUNDATION — $716,667 over 7y, 29% of budgetHORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND — $497,000 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $269,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC — $232,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC — $210,300 over 8y, 8.9% of budgetTHE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK — $118,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetKITE'S NEST INC — $116,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $100,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC — $94,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC — $77,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $70,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGroundswell Fund — $55,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $53,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bronx Museum of the Arts — $52,340 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFriends of the Weston Community Inc — $51,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetANCHORS AWEIGH CLUB INC — $50,500 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetWeston Community Association Inc — $50,000 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC — $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $46,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMy Community Nurse Project Inc — $40,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetGuides Trust Foundation Inc — $38,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $37,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPrisoners Literature Project — $31,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $31,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCenter on Juvenile and Criminal Justice — $31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $30,833 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $30,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC F/K/A FLA IMMIGRANT ADVOCACY CENTER — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI National — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE STUDIOS OF KEY WEST — $30,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBROOKLYN BOATWORKS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC — $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITTLE SCHOOL — $28,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetVERMONT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD — $28,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetKey West and Lower Keys Fishing Guides Association Inc — $25,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION FORUM — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOCEANA INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetKEY WEST WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $23,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCOALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $18,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUTHOUT — $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget
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 HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds COKER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER
  • Who funds EDUCATION MATTERS AFRICA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HORN OF AFRICA EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT FUND
  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL GAME FISH ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC
  • Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds KITE'S NEST INC
  • Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC
  • Who funds Groundswell Fund
  • Who funds Vermont Public Radio
  • Who funds The Bronx Museum of the Arts
  • Who funds Friends of the Weston Community Inc
  • Who funds ANCHORS AWEIGH CLUB INC
  • Who funds Weston Community Association Inc
  • Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND
  • Who funds PARENTCHILD INC
  • Who funds My Community Nurse Project Inc
  • Who funds Guides Trust Foundation Inc
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK
  • Who funds Prisoners Literature Project
  • Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT
  • Who funds Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
  • Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC

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.

The Vermont Community FoundationVT23.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Miami Foundation Inc · Kahn Foundation Co Kahn Lucas Lancaster · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Foundation for the Carolinas

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 Linville Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 160%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Shoreline Greenway Trail Inc64% of income from government
  • Save the Sound37% of income from government
  • Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc19% of income from government
  • Vermont Covertswoodlands for Wildlife Inc18% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank13% of income from government
  • The Little School13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services Inc9% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Connections Inc7% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc4% of income from government
  • International Game Fish Association Inc2% of income from government
  • A Far Cry Inc1% of income from government
  • The Weston Playhouse Theater0% of income from government
  • Vermont Journalism Trust Ltd0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Samuel's House Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 175 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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