· Private foundation
The Linden Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STORYTELLER CHILDREN'S CENTER | $35,000 |
| SHELTER BOX | $30,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $30,000 |
| HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| THE PAINTED TURTLE | $30,000 |
| TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY CENTER | $20,000 |
| ANGELS FOSTER CARE | $20,000 |
| HOPE HARBOR | $15,000 |
| GLOBAL ARTS CORP | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SUSHELTERBOX USA INC7× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +123%
- TBTEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +52%
- SCSTORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC5× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- LALOOK AT US ALLIANCE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $21k · 38% of their budget
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.
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.
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
A family for every child in our lifetime.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
God's littlest angels facilitates the development of healthy kids, empowered families, and stronger communities while sharing the hope and love of jesus christ.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
Alight builds a meaningful life for and with the displaced. not simply addressing basic needs, but building a life filled with joy, dignity, connection, and purpose. we walk with them along their entire journey of displacement and deliver…
Hopehouse international provides aid and housing to families adopting orphans in ukraine and adjacent european countries.
Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.
This year, all for kids provided 70,000 at-risk children and parents living in los angeles and orange counties with services that include school readiness, parenting classes, family resource centers, support groups, mental health…
One child global's mission is to advocate for children in hard places and provide holistic care so they have hope and thrive. onechild global's 355 hope centers provide holistic child development progress in nineteen countries.
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
Food for the hungry is a christian humanitarian aid and global development organization that has designed, developed and delivered solutions for more than 50 years so that children, families and communities can flourish. (continued on…
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds SHELTERBOX USA INC ↗
- Who funds TEDDY BEAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STORYTELLER CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S FAMILY SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOSTER CARE OF SANTA BARBARA ↗
- Who funds HOPE HARBOR ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Laurel House Inc dba Hope Harbor ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING ↗
- Who funds AWARENESS CAMBODIA USA ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOOK AT US ALLIANCE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ARTS CORPORATION ↗
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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Linden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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