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The Linton Foundation Inc

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$864k
Granted FY2018
11
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$531k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172018.

Philanthropy$849kArts & Culture$14kHealth$9kInternational$5kEducation$5k
02FY2018 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k9 grants · $20k
  • $250k+2 grants · $843k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Linton Family Charitable Fund$530,773
Linton Family Charitable Fund$312,567
National Dance Institute New Mexico Inc$5,000
Osborn Foundation$5,000
Smith College$4,500
Music & Memory Inc$2,000
The Pray Family Foundation$1,000
The Rye Arts Center Inc$1,000
Morgan Adams Foundation$1,000
The American Federation of the Arts$500
Soul Ryeders Inc$250
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–18) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Pray Family Foundation: $1k → 11%Smith College: $5k → 12%holocaust memorial and tolerance center of nassau: $5k → 6%Linton Family Charitable Fund: $531k → 9%project als inc: $1k → 17%National Dance Institute New Mexico Inc: $5k → 12%Medshare international inc: $5k → 14%morgan adams foundation: $1k → 12%Music & Memory Inc: $2k → 6%Linton Family Charitable Fund: $313k → 9%The American Federation of the Arts: $500 → 17%national jewish health: $5k → 12%Osborn Foundation: $5k → 9%Morgan Adams Foundation: $1k → 12%osborn foundation: $1k → 9%The Rye Arts Center Inc: $1k → 9%Soul Ryeders Inc: $250 → 9%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.

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 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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
3
The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation Inc

The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…

Health
4
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
5
The Translational Genomics Research Institute

Please see schedule o

Health
6
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
7
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
10
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

11
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
12
Targeting Resistance in Cancer Cooperative
Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Osborn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is National Jewish Health. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Linton Family Charitable Fund — $843,340 · OtherLinton Family Charitable Fund+2 more — $7,000 · OtherNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $5,000 · HealthTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthTHE PRAY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · HealthPROJECT ALS INC — $1,000 · Health+1 more — $250 · HealthNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC — $500 · Arts & CultureThe Osborn Foundation — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 · InternationalTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $4,500 · Education
Other$850,340Health$9,250Arts & Culture$6,500Housing & Shelter$6,000International$5,000Education$4,500

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 budgetThe Osborn Foundation — $6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE NM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSIC & MEMORY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MORGAN ADAMS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRAY FAMILY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPROJECT ALS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RYE ARTS CENTER INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS INC — $500 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.

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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Linton Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 14 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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