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The Linda L Von Thaden Foundation at a glance

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The Linda L Von Thaden 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.

$120k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

International$160kCommunity Improvement$110kPublic Safety & Disaster$103kHealth$95kHuman Services$80kPublic Benefit$45kEducation$40kAnimals$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMEFRONT$30,000
LAFD FOUNDATION$25,000
BEST FRIENDS PET ADOPTION CENTER$25,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$25,000
TABBY'S PLACE$15,000
02The need
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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 (FY20–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RIDING WITH HEART: $10k → 4%RIDING WITH HEART: $5k → 4%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%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

MT
MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
VA
MD
KS
AR
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$594k · 20 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

$594k
$183k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+10%

Still filing today

60%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesHealthEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentOther
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

  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +21%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2020–2024 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • HC
    HUNTERDON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $110k · revenue +81% · 39% of their budget
  • MT
    MERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +10%
  • The Friends of Foundation Academy Incgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +86%
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
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
2
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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3
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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4
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
5
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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6
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
7
America's Charities

America's charities provides charities with financial support through workplace giving and additional paths. america's charities also provides direct financial assistance to those impacted by disasters and other emergencies.

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8
America's Health Insurance Plans Inc

Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…

Membership Benefit
9
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
10
Health Care Without Harm

The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…

Environment
11
The Leadership Foundation

The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…

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12
International Federation of Accountants

Ifac acts in the public interest and has no profit-making purpose. ifac serves the public interest by: speaking out and engaging as the voice for the global profession; leading and developing a future-ready accountancy profession; and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Serengeti Foundation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HUNTERDON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $110,000 · OtherHUNTERDON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCETABBY'S PLACE: $90,000 · OtherTABBY'S PLACEWHEN WE ALL VOTE: $45,000 · OtherWHEN WE ALL VOTEBEST FRIENDS PET ADOPTION CENTER: $25,000 · OtherBEST FRIENDS PET ADOPTION CENTERST LABRE INDIAN SCHOOL: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+11 more: $104,049 · Other+11 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $67,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN …COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSIST…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIER…HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 · InternationalHEART TO HEART INTERNA…United Help Ukraine Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesUnited Help Ukr…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…RIDING WITH HEART: $15,000 · Human ServicesRIDING WITH HEA…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $55,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthHOMEFRONT INC: $30,000 · EducationThe Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $10,000 · EducationLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC: $10,000 · Animals
Other$434,049International$167,500Human Services$115,000Health$65,000Education$40,000Public Safety & Disaster$25,000Animals$10,000

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 budgetHUNTERDON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $110,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $67,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWHEN WE ALL VOTE: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFRONT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDING WITH HEART: $15,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERLIN TUTTLES BAT CONSERVATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Friends of Foundation Academy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPEWELL FIRE DEPARTMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLATIN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER FRIENDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SERENGETI FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Princeton Area Commun…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Princeton Area Community Foundation IncNJ13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 The Linda L Von Thaden Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linda L Von Thaden Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    4get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.

    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 32 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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