· Private foundation
The Linville Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VENICE LITTLE THEATRE | $100,000 |
| VYC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $25,000 |
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $3,770 |
| SAINT ANNE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY | $1,250 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $1,000 |
| NOTRE DAME | $500 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
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 (FY20–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +88% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VLVENICE LITTLE THEATRE4× · 2022–2025 · $175k
- CGCHICAGO'S GREEN CITY MARKET PROGRAM5× · 2017–2021 · $112k · revenue +88%
FAMILY PROMISE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $15k
- MMMax McGraw Wildlife Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +30%
MANNA FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +141%
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.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Creating a more inclusive venture capital and entrepreneurial ecosystem.
The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…
We identify shared opportunities and core challenges and offer solutions to the region's most critical issues including skills and talent, regional mobility, infrastructure and inclusive economic growth.
Gulf coast strategic investments accepts and manages gifts of complex assets and real estate to deepen gulf coast community foundation's philanthropic impact.
The leadership foundation, inc. (the foundation), established in 1990, is the mechanism by which iwf members advance the next generation of women leaders. the foundation accelerates the careers of top-performing women by offering…
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Global carbon market utility governing council inc (gcmu governing council inc) is dedicated to dramatically reducing the amount of carbon dioxide and related greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere, thereby helping to preserve and…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 26 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.
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- Who funds Max McGraw Wildlife Foundation ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
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- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
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- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Linville Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linville Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Family Promise Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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