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The Linse Bock 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.

$415k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$145k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.6MHealth$300kPhilanthropy$280kReligion$257kHousing & Shelter$200kAnimals$90kArts & Culture$60kRecreation & Sports$55kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $315k
$25,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S$145,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$70,000
CLARA'S HOUSE$50,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$50,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
USGA FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
WAYLAND ACADEMY$15,000
BAY SHORE LUTHERAN CHURCH$10,000
OBJECTIVE VETRANS SMILE INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
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NJ
VA
TN
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SC
OK
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 16 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
11

Total granted

$2.3M
$342k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+17%

Still filing today

44%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $280k · revenue +83%
  • FO
    FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · $250k · revenue +162%
  • K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $85k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • AC
    ASHEVILE CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2024 · $120k
  • FU
    FURMAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +26%
  • Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
Washington & Jefferson College

To graduate people of uncommon integrity, competence, and maturity, who are effective lifelong learners and responsible citizens, and who are prepared to contribute substantially to the world in which they live.

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

12
Virginia Wesleyan University

Virginia wesleyan university is a fully accredited liberal arts, united-methodist related institution founded in 1961.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fordham University and the most unlike its peers is Wilderness Veterans Memorial Flame Foundation 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY — $300,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYMAYO FOUNDATION — $280,000 · OtherMAYO FOUNDATIONCLARA'S HOUSE — $200,000 · OtherCLARA'S HOUSEBAY SHORE LUTHERAN CHURCH — $130,000 · OtherBAY SHORE LUTHERAN CHURCHVILLAGE CHAPEL INC — $120,000 · OtherVILLAGE CHAPEL INCASHEVILE CITY SCHOOLS — $120,000 · OtherASHEVILE CITY SCHOOLSMAYO CLINIC — $85,000 · OtherMAYO CLINICIndividual grant recipient — $65,000 · Other+8 more — $167,000 · Other+8 moreMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 · EducationMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIO…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $280,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $250,000 · EducationFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATIONHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $200,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGECARTHAGE COLLEGE — $55,000 · EducationFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · Education+2 more — $25,000 · EducationST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $145,000 · HealthMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 · HealthK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $85,000 · AnimalsColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWILDERNESS VETERANS MEMORIAL FLAME FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureUSGA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Recreation & SportsLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $25,000 · Human ServicesWILDERNESS PEDALERS INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,467,000Education$1,160,000Health$195,000Animals$85,000Arts & Culture$60,000Recreation & Sports$25,000Human Services$25,000Community Improvement$20,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $300,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $280,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $145,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARTHAGE COLLEGE — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFURMAN UNIVERSITY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColonial Williamsburg Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDERNESS PEDALERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 92% of budgetWAYLAND ACADEMY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILDERNESS VETERANS MEMORIAL FLAME FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetFordham University — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC
  • Who funds CARTHAGE COLLEGE
  • Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
  • Who funds MARSHFIELD CLINIC HEALTH SYSTEM INC
  • Who funds USGA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND
  • Who funds WILDERNESS PEDALERS INC
  • Who funds WAYLAND ACADEMY
  • Who funds WILDERNESS VETERANS MEMORIAL FLAME FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Fordham University

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.

Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Linse Bock 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • K9S for Warriors Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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