Massachusetts · Private foundation
Ruby W and Lavon P Linn 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.
- $2.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $208,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $949,399
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $69M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 | 12 | $2.7M | 42% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $2.8M | 63% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $3.5M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $3.3M | 78% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $2.5M | 38% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $2.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeastern University | $3,166,564 | 4 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $1,380,671 | 4 | 0% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $1,000,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $825,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans | $800,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Caritas Communities Inc | $735,293 | 4 | 5% |
| Museum of Science | $700,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Aldersbridge Communities (F/K/A United Methodist Elder Care) | $415,505 | 2 | 10% |
| Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc | $358,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc | $350,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 48 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Yawkey Foundation II · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc
How this is measured
Compare Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation with peer funders
About Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation
- How much does Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation give?
- Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $2,667,399 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Northeastern University ($3.2M), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($1.4M), Pine Street Inn Inc ($1.0M).
- Does Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ruby W and Lavon P Linn 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 Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries.
- Where is Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation based?
- Ruby W and Lavon P Linn Foundation is based in MA.
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