Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Linden Foundation Inc
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.
- $845k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $185,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations The Linden Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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 | 26 | $845k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $851k | 30% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $576k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $477k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $566k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $595k | 5% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $418k | 5% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $398k | 15% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laconia Area Community Land Trust Inc | $640,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Archways | $547,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Waypoint | $255,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Parentchild Inc | $227,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Wellspring House Inc | $227,500 | 8 | 1% |
| The Bridge House Inc | $207,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Julies Family Learning Program Inc | $182,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Raw Art Works Inc | $182,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Belknap House | $169,500 | 9 | 11% |
| Housing Families Inc | $150,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($915k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Linden Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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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 · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · The Saab Family Foundation · Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust
How this is measured
About The Linden Foundation Inc
- How much does The Linden Foundation Inc give?
- The Linden Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $845,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Linden Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Housing & Shelter (33%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Linden Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Laconia Area Community Land Trust Inc ($641k), Archways ($548k), Waypoint ($255k).
- Does The Linden Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Linden Foundation Inc 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 The Linden Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is The Linden Foundation Inc based?
- The Linden Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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