· Private foundation
The Link Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $375,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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.
21 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $375k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE5× · 2017–2021 · $270k · revenue +61%
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC5× · 2017–2021 · $240k · revenue +48%- CFCenter for Survivors of Torture6× · 2017–2022 · $210k · revenue +376%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTINone grant, 2023 · $836k
- ASAMERICAN SHORT FICTION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $40k · revenue +632%
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 citizens commission on human rights of austin (cchr of austin) is a non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health. we work to ensure patient…
The citizens commission on human rights (cchr) is a non-profit, non-political, non-religious mental health industry watchdog whose mission is to eradicate abuses committed under the guise of mental health. we work to ensure patient and…
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Ccr is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the united states constitution the universal declaration of human rights. ccr stands with social justice movements…
Center for Humane Technology is a nonprofit dedicated to ensuring that the most consequential technologies actually serve humanity. We bring clarity to how the tech ecosystem works in order to shift the incentives that drive it.
The center for justice and accountability (cja) is an international human rights organization dedicated to deterring torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other severe human rights abuses around the world through litigation,…
Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.
The ACLU of Texas works with communities, at the State Capitol, and in the courts to protect and advance civil rights and civil liberties for every Texan, no exceptions.
To deliver meaningful news, music, and cultural experiences to everyone in colorado using the power of the human voice in all its forms
The organization's mission is to help survivors of torture living in utah to heal from their physical and psychological injuries and rebuild their lives.
Handicap international dba humanity & inclusion (hi) works with people with disabilities and people living in situations of vulnerability, including poverty, exclusion, conflict, and disaster.
To contribute to the full enjoyment of human rights in the americas through effective use of the tools of the inter-american system and international human rights law
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 24 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 CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Survivors of Torture ↗
- Who funds HELPING HAND HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR LGBTQ RIGHTS FKA NATIONAL CENTER FOR LESBIAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds FUN4SENIORS ↗
- Who funds CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds Austin Child Guidance Center ↗
- Who funds Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SHORT FICTION 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.
Open a dossier: Better Business Bureau · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Link Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Link Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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