How much does The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation give?

The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation reported 66 grants totaling $868,468 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 78 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Environment (24%), Health (8%).

Who are The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory ($426k), Spring Island Trust ($340k), Denison University ($281k).

Does The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Meier and Linnartz Family 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 Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc, Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc, Guffey Family Foundation.

Where is The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation based?

The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation is based in CT.

The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation

The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation at a glance Mostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Private foundation

The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$868k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$51k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.0MEnvironment$1.4MHealth$453kScience & Tech$427kArts & Culture$234kAnimals$201kHuman Services$180kFood & Nutrition$163kOther$0

02FY2024 · 66 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k35 grants · $104k
$10k–50k25 grants · $463k
$50k–250k6 grants · $302k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$26M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DENISON UNIVERSITY	$51,000
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY	$50,500
HPU FUND FOR EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATION	$50,000
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY	$50,000
SPRING ISLAND TRUST	$50,000
TURNEFFE ATOLL TRUST	$50,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY	$40,000
Individual grant recipient	$35,000
SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD	$32,455
BEAUFORT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$30,000
LOWCOUNTRY LAND TRUST	$30,000
MOULTRIE MIDDLE SCHOOL	$25,000
Individual grant recipient	$25,000
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY	$20,000
AMERICAN RIVERS	$17,543

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.1M · 86 repeat orgs$333k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 61 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$243k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%

+4%

Still filing today

71%

49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

CS
COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY
8× · 2017–2024 · $426k · revenue +9%
SI
SPRING ISLAND TRUST
6× · 2019–2024 · $340k · revenue +61%
DU
DENISON UNIVERSITY
8× · 2017–2024 · $281k · revenue +39%

Funded once

CC
Coastal Conservation League
one grant, 2017 · $30k
OS
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE
one grant, 2023 · $25k
IA
INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -62%

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.

04Its field

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.

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.

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Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Atlantic Coast Conservancy Inc

The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…

Environment

The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…

Philanthropy

Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment

Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment

Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Boston Architectural College

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

—

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Hartford Family Foundation. 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

91 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 91 of the 136 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

86/91

Grantees still filing

59/91

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,480,229Education$1,389,800Environment$750,143Science & Tech$426,000Health$308,525Arts & Culture$202,570Animals$181,350

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.

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.

Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC37.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Guffey Family Foundation · The Joanna Foundation · Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Pathfinder Foundation Inc · Magnolia Plantation Foundation · Trident United Way · Employees Community Fund of Boeing-Puget Sound · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Post and Courier Foundation

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meier and Linnartz Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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