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The Linge 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 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
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS | $25,000 |
| THEATRE CEDAR RAPIDS | $20,000 |
| WAYPOINT SERVICES | $5,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,000 |
| OAK HILL CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CEDAR RAPIDS | $2,000 |
| QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION DBA FREEDOM STITCHERS OF IOWA | $1,000 |
| TANAGER PLACE | $1,000 |
| THE HISTORY CENTER (LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY) | $1,000 |
| TANAGER PLACE | $118 |
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, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- WSWAYPOINT SERVICES3× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +21%
- YPYOUNG PARENTS NETWORK2× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +56%
- SOSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL2× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +261%
Funded once
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL CO ST LUDMILA CONFERENCEone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- WDWILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +65%
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.
Linn County Advocate, Inc., provides quality legal representation for indigent clients in criminal and juvenile cases at the state court level in Linn, Johnson, Benton, and Jones Counties in the state of Iowa.
The greater cedar rapids community foundation (the community foundation) partners with donors, funders, and other community collaborators to achieve high-impact philanthropy, supports nonprofit organizations that address our community's…
Our mission at orchard place is "developing strong futures" for the children and youth of iowa. we do this by providing a continuum of services to our clients who deal with mental and behavioral health challenges.
The organization's mission is to address the immediate needs of sick, injured, and orphaned wild birds, with the goal to return them to the wild and help educate and bring awareness to the global issue that birds are dissappearing at an…
To provide high-quality and compassionate care to community members approaching the end of life.
The orginization is dedicated to improving quality of life by offering innovative and flexible funding in order to expand affordable housing opportunities within linn county, iowa.
This member-supported organization protects and restores iowa's land, water and wildlife for future generations. priorities include permanent land protection, promotion of improved land management and bringing new conservation…
To promote the development, growth and utilization of childrens advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams to better serve Iowas abused and neglected children and their families.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
ICCJ assists children in custody disputes through child focused education and legal services. ICCJ provides education and legal services on a reduced fee or at no charge based on the ability to pay.
Reaching out to improve lives in our communities through advocacy, support and the integration of mental health, substance use and wellness services. abbe center for community mental health (mhc) serves as the safety net mental health…
Connecting families affected by childhood cancer by providing opportunities that encourage relationships and strengthen community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Waypoint Services and the most unlike its peers is Oak Hill Cemetery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 WAYPOINT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LINN COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTCR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG PARENTS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds Oak Hill Cemetery ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION 2 INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIS DADY EMERGENCY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHPORT ↗
- Who funds TANAGER PLACE ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA IOWA INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds KIDS FIRST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds INDIAN CREEK NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds TREES FOREVER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTHEW 25 ↗
- Who funds QUILTS OF VALOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAMI Linn County ↗
- Who funds Critter Crusaders of Cedar Rapids Inc ↗
- Who funds Linn County Trails Association ↗
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: Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · United Fire Group Foundation · Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation · The Hall-Perrine Foundation · GreenState Credit Union · First Federal Credit Union Foundation · Rohde Family Charitable Foundation · Carleen and Eugene Grandon Charitable Foundation · The McIntyre Foundation · Mercy Medical Center · United Way of East Central Iowa · Olberg Family Charitable 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 Linge Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.
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