New York · Private foundation
The Linton 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.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 12
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $557k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Linton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $97k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $119k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $89k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $88k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $76k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $77k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roycroft Campus Corporation | $80,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society | $67,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys and Girls Club of East Aurora Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy Inc | $57,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Baker Memorial Methodist Church | $51,000 | 6 | n/a |
| University at Buffalo Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Aurora Historical Society Inc | $20,400 | 4 | 23% |
| East Aurora Kiwanis Foundation Inc | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($169k), not named here.
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Linton Foundation
- How much does The Linton Foundation give?
- The Linton Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $96,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Linton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Environment (20%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are The Linton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Roycroft Campus Corporation ($80k), Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society ($67k), Boys and Girls Club of East Aurora Inc ($60k).
- Does The Linton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Linton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Linton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Linton Foundation based?
- The Linton Foundation is based in NY.
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