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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 FY2025still arriving
26
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$185k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.7MYouth Development$676kEmployment$308kCommunity Improvement$135kEducation$95kInternational$75kHealth$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k24 grants · $585k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $260k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKES REGION COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS$185,000
ARCHWAYS (FKA GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER)$75,000
ACT LAWRENCE$45,000
WELLSPRING HOUSE$35,000
PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENCAPE ANN FAMILIES$30,000
LAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES$30,000
PROJECT KOMPASS$30,000
ACTION INC$30,000
RAW ART WORKS$30,000
VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE$30,000
PATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC$30,000
PARENTCHILD$30,000
BELKNAP HOUSE$25,000
PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE$25,000
LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ORANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS (ORIS): $20k → 7%GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $99k → 7%ORANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS (ORIS): $20k → 7%GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $98k → 7%ARCHWAYS (FKA GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER): $91k → 7%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $35k → 10%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $30k → 16%ARCHWAYS (FKA GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER): $80k → 7%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $30k → 16%ARCHWAYS (FKA GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER): $80k → 7%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $30k → 16%ARCHWAYS (FKA GREATER TILTON AREA FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER): $75k → 7%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $30k → 8%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $28k → 16%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $30k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $30k → 10%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $25k → 16%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $25k → 8%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $25k → 16%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $25k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $30k → 10%BELKNAP HOUSE: $28k → 9%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $25k → 8%ACTION INC: $30k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $30k → 10%BELKNAP HOUSE: $25k → 9%BELKNAP HOUSE: $25k → 9%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $28k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $25k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $40k → 10%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $20k → 8%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $25k → 10%BELKNAP HOUSE: $20k → 9%BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $33k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $25k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $30k → 10%ACTION INC: $20k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $30k → 10%VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $30k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $25k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $25k → 10%VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $25k → 10%VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $25k → 10%VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $25k → 10%BRIDGE HOUSE INC: $25k → 10%VOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $23k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $45k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $25k → 10%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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.0M · 35 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
5

Total granted

$5.0M
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+83%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • LA
    LACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $641k · revenue +156%
  • A
    ARCHWAYS
    8× · 2018–2025 · $548k · revenue +336%
  • W
    WAYPOINT
    9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • WF
    WAYPOINT FBO FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $28k
  • CM
    Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Incgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +32%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE FBO NEW GENERATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
3
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
4
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
5
Concord Area Trust for Community Housing

Catch's mission is to strengthen our communities by creating opportunities for permanently affordable, quality housing for people otherwise not being served.

Housing & Shelter
6
House of Hope Housing Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Transition House Inc

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…

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8
Coming Home of Middlesex County

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…

Human Services
9
Triangle Inc

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.

—
10
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
11
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Project Hope Boston Inc

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
25/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARCHWAYS: $547,500 · Human ServicesARCHWAYSWAYPOINT: $255,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $227,500 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE INCThe Bridge House Inc: $207,500 · Human ServicesThe Bridge House IncJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $182,500 · Human ServicesJulies Family Learning Program IncBelknap House: $169,500 · Human ServicesBelknap HouseHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesHOUSING FAMILIES INCVOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $127,500 · Human ServicesVOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE+6 more: $255,000 · Human Services+6 morePATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENCAPE ANN FAMILIES: $272,500 · OtherPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENCAPE ANN FAMILIESLAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICES: $237,500 · OtherLAKES REGION COMMUNITY SERVICESPARENTCHILD INC: $227,500 · OtherPARENTCHILD INCAHEAD INC: $212,500 · OtherAHEAD INCRAW ART WORKS INC: $182,500 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCNew Generation Inc: $95,000 · OtherNew Generation IncUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FBO FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER: $95,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FBO FAMILY …PATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC: $80,000 · OtherMAYHEW: $73,000 · OtherCIRCLE PROGRAM: $73,000 · Other+7 more: $210,000 · Other+7 moreLACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $640,500 · Housing & ShelterLACONIA AREA COMMUNI…HEADING HOME INC: $137,500 · Housing & ShelterHEADING HOME INCFamilies in Transition: $60,000 · Housing & ShelterFamilies in Transiti…PROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterACT LAWRENCE INC: $85,000 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $75,000 · Civil RightsGREATER LIFE INC: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsFAMILY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $35,000 · Health
Human Services$2,122,000Other$1,758,500Housing & Shelter$938,000Community Improvement$85,000Civil Rights$75,000Recreation & Sports$65,000Health$35,000

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 budgetLACONIA AREA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $640,500 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetARCHWAYS: $547,500 over 8y, 8.5% of budgetWAYPOINT: $255,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $227,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $227,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetThe Bridge House Inc: $207,500 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $182,500 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $182,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetBelknap House: $169,500 over 9y, 11% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $137,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetVOICES AGAINST VIOLENCE: $127,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetNew Generation Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetACT LAWRENCE INC: $85,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetPATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAYHEW: $73,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetCIRCLE PROGRAM: $73,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER LIFE INC: $65,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFamilies in Transition: $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetACTION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Granite Young Men's Christian Association: $39,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF CONCORD NH: $28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSOUTH MIDDLESEX OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC ↗
  • Who funds Families in Transition ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds COALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…Cummings Foundation G…New Hampshire Charita…Salem Five Charitable…Agnes M Lindsay TrustBoston Foundation IncTd Charitable Foundat…Essex County Communit…The Saab Family Found…Bank of New Hampshire…Cogswell Benevolent T…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA40× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Linden Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linden Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 40 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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