California · Private foundation
Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn 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.
- $11k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $783k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $11k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $288k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $230k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $95k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $1.1M | 36% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $419k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $208k | 30% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $171k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $1,065,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Health Advocates for Older People Inc | $200,500 | 9 | 8% |
| Search and Care Inc | $168,725 | 4 | 8% |
| Clarion Music Society | $56,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Daniel Ferro Vocal Program Inc | $27,300 | 4 | 70% |
| Blood Cancer United Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Parks Alliance | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Hotchkiss School | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| City Gardens Club of New York City | $10,900 | 6 | 3% |
| Scyc Preservation Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 12% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($990k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Hoerle Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
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About Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation
- How much does Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation give?
- Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $11,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (45%), Religion (26%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($1.1M), Health Advocates for Older People Inc ($201k), Search and Care Inc ($169k).
- Does Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn 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 Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Hoerle Foundation Inc, The Hyde and Watson Foundation.
- Where is Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation based?
- Michael R & Kathleen B Linburn Foundation is based in CA.
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