· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k24 grants · $585k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKES REGION COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS | $185,000 |
| ARCHWAYS (FKA GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER) | $75,000 |
| ACT LAWRENCE | $45,000 |
| WELLSPRING HOUSE | $35,000 |
| LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES | $30,000 |
| PATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC | $30,000 |
| PROJECT KOMPASS | $30,000 |
| ACTION INC | $30,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $30,000 |
| PARENTCHILD | $30,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENCAPE ANN FAMILIES | $30,000 |
| VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE | $30,000 |
| LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS | $25,000 |
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $25,000 |
| BELKNAP HOUSE | $25,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
35 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LALACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $641k · revenue +156%
- AARCHWAYS8× · 2018–2025 · $548k · revenue +336%
- WWAYPOINT9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- WFWAYPOINT FBO FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERone grant, 2021 · $28k
- CMCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +32%
- SMSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +83%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
The mission of Coming Home is to create a system to end homelessness in Middlesex County by fostering collaborations and public-private partnerships among all stakeholders to ensure that people have a stable place to call home and…
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Plummer Youth Promise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds LACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHWAYS ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bridge House Inc ↗
- Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Belknap House ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds New Generation Inc ↗
- Who funds ACT LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MAYHEW ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND ↗
- Who funds The Granite Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds FAMILY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CONCORD NH ↗
- Who funds Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Linden Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Pathways Adult Education & Training Inc — 45% of income from government
- Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.