How much does Linville Family Foundation give?

Linville Family Foundation reported 93 grants totaling $1,220,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 74 and 91 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Linville Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (26%), Education (24%), Arts & Culture (14%).

Who are Linville Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Helen Keller International ($1.7M), Coker University ($844k), The Weston Playhouse Theater ($734k).

Does Linville Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Linville Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Linville Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Miami Foundation Inc.

Where is Linville Family Foundation based?

Linville Family Foundation is based in NY.

Linville Family Foundation

Linville Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$283k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

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

02FY2024 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k72 grants · $242k
$10k–50k15 grants · $306k
$50k–250k5 grants · $389k
$250k+1 grant · $283k

$4,500

Median grant

States reached

$16M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
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
OLD PARRISH CHURCH	$25,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NNE	$25,000
LA JOLLA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	$25,000
NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS	$25,000
BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST	$21,000
BRONX MUSEUM OF THE ARTS	$20,340

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$8.2M · 120 repeat orgs$531k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Total granted

$8.2M

$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+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.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

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

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.

Boston Architectural College

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

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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.

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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

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

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

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

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…

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Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

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

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

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

Manhattanville University

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

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Public Media Group Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 175 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

105/109

Grantees still filing

77/109

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$2,244,417Education$1,745,167Other$2,460,626Arts & Culture$1,258,740Environment$584,500Health$340,300Community Improvement$141,000

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.

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 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

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 Linville Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linville Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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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, 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home