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Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$831k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$924kEnvironment$842kHealth$757kFood & Nutrition$650kAnimals$526kArts & Culture$358kEducation$335kPublic Safety & Disaster$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $528k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $280k
$15,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP$100,000
SIERRA SERVICES FOR THE BLIND$80,000
WARRIOR EDUCATIONAL FILMS INC$50,000
CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC$50,000
Florida Research Institute for Equine$45,000
LIVING ROOM CENTER INC$40,000
CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION$35,000
LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY$30,000
PLAYGROUND$30,000
STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM$25,000
Safe and Sound$25,000
COMMUNITY SUPPORT NETWORK$25,000
CENTER FOR MUSIC BY PEOPLE$17,500
CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK$15,000
PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK$15,000
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 (FY17–25, $344k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $40k → 9%Nested integral coaching constellation: $50k → 14%SHEPHERD COMMUNITY INC: $8k → 16%MarinLink: $10k → 8%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $40k → 9%Nested integral coaching constellation: $10k → 14%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $35k → 9%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $35k → 9%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $35k → 9%Simply the Basics: $15k → 10%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $30k → 9%Simply the Basics: $15k → 10%Simply the Basics: $15k → 10%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE: $7k → 9%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

WA
MT
MN
MI
OR
IN
OH
PA
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.9M · 44 repeat orgs$429k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
19

Total granted

$4.9M
$248k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+74%

Still filing today

77%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $181k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $427k · revenue +312%
  • SB
    SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP
    4× · 2021–2025 · $380k · revenue +53%
  • TW
    THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY
    7× · 2017–2025 · $303k · revenue +124%

Funded once

  • FF
    FRIENDS FOR FRIENDS CHARITY
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
  • TM
    The Marin School Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -14%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
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
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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4
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
5
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
6
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
7
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
8
Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition
9
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
10
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
11
Boulder Food Rescue

Food redistribution- rescue food that would otherwise go to waste and distribute it to low-income communities across Boulder.

Food & Nutrition
12
California Association of Food Banks

California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Family Meal; the most unlike its peers is The Marin School 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

52 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. 52 of the 70 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
39/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION: $235,000 · OtherTHE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATIONCommunity Support Network: $199,720 · OtherCommunity Support NetworkSAFE & SOUND: $175,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUNDSociety of St Vincent de Paul Sonoma: $170,000 · OtherSociety of St Vincent de Paul SonomaLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $140,000 · OtherSupport Our Students: $135,000 · OtherFLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC: $135,000 · OtherFRIENDS: $125,000 · OtherCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $93,500 · OtherNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $155,000 · OtherNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMNEUABILITY: $132,500 · OtherEARN INC: $100,000 · Other+33 more: $1,006,757 · Other+33 moreTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $427,000 · EnvironmentTHE CORAL RESTORA…SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $380,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA BUTTES TRA…+1 more: $15,000 · EnvironmentFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $103,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD FINDE…REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $88,500 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EM…Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $88,500 · Food & NutritionPalm Beach…DENVER FOOD RESCUE: $75,000 · Food & NutritionDENVER FOO…AUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC: $73,500 · Food & NutritionAUBURN INT…FOOD OUTREACH INC: $42,500 · Food & NutritionFOOD OUTRE…+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $302,790 · AnimalsNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $88,000 · AnimalsTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $215,000 · Human ServicesNested Integral Coaching Constellation: $60,000 · Human ServicesSIMPLY THE BASICS: $45,000 · Human ServicesPLACE OF HOPE INC: $25,000 · Human Services+3 more: $24,000 · Human ServicesPLAYGROUND: $180,000 · Arts & CultureWarrior Films Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureKOWS Community Radio: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $130,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $110,000 · International
Other$2,802,477Environment$822,000Food & Nutrition$476,500Animals$390,790Human Services$369,000Arts & Culture$250,500International$240,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC: $427,000 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetSIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $380,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY: $302,790 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION: $235,000 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $215,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCommunity Support Network: $199,720 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPLAYGROUND: $180,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $175,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $155,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $140,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetSupport Our Students: $135,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetFLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC: $135,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetNEUABILITY: $132,500 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC: $103,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEARN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK: $93,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $88,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $88,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC: $88,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSIERRA SERVICES FOR THE BLIND: $80,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetLAUREL LEARNING CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDENVER FOOD RESCUE: $75,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetAUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC: $73,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetHBA FOUNDATION DBA HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetNested Integral Coaching Constellation: $60,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetBUCKELEW PROGRAMS: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPLY THE BASICS: $45,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetFOOD OUTREACH INC: $42,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $35,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetThe Marin School Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST LOUIS AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLACE OF HOPE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE OF SOUTHWEST WASHINGTON: $20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE PREVENTION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHEADWATERS SCIENCE INSTITUTE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFilm Forever Northwest dba Hollywood Theatre: $15,800 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN LINK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetShepherd Community Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Parenting Institute: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,457 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLA FAMILIA SANA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $5,000 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.

  • Who funds THE CORAL RESTORATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP ↗
  • Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHANDA PLAN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE LIVING ROOM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Community Support Network ↗
  • Who funds PLAYGROUND ↗
  • Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORTFALL RIVER STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds Support Our Students ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA RESEARCH INST FOR EQUINE NURTURING DEVELOPMENT & SAFETY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEUABILITY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FINDERS FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds EARN INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARK COUNTY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AVIARY IN PITTSBURGH INC ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL LEARNING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds DENVER FOOD RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds AUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC ↗
  • Who funds HBA FOUNDATION DBA HOME BUILDERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Nested Integral Coaching Constellation ↗
  • Who funds BUCKELEW PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds Warrior Films Inc ↗
  • Who funds SIMPLY THE BASICS ↗
  • Who funds FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA FAMILY MEAL ↗

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.

Sonoma County Communi…Bothin FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…McNabb FoundationSonoma County Vintner…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Peter E Haas Jr Famil…Jewish Community Fede…Colorado Gives Founda…ImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA19.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Colorado Gives Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Place of Hope Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
21report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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How do I get to Negley Flinn Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Negley Flinn Charitable 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 70 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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