How much does Van Der Linden Family Foundation give?

Van Der Linden Family Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $60,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 40 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

What does Van Der Linden Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (33%), Health (30%), Education (12%).

Who are Van Der Linden Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra ($18k), Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience ($17k), Ochsner Clinic Foundation ($17k).

Does Van Der Linden Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Van Der Linden 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 Van Der Linden Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Goldring Family Foundation, The Usdin-Weil Foundation, Shell USA Company Foundation.

Where is Van Der Linden Family Foundation based?

Van Der Linden Family Foundation is based in LA.

Van Der Linden Family Foundation

Van Der Linden Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Van Der Linden 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.

$61k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$95kHealth$88kEducation$35kFood & Nutrition$15kCivil Rights$15kReligion$10kHuman Services$6kInternational$6kOther$0

02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$1.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TOURO SYNAGOGUE	$5,000
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE	$3,500
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION	$3,000
LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA	$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$3,000
METAIRIE PARK COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL	$2,500
TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$2,500
THE NOCCA INSTITUTE	$2,000
MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE	$1,800
UNO FOUNDATION	$1,500
NEW ORLEANS BALLET ASSOCIATION	$1,500
TULANE UNIVERSITY FUND	$1,500
WYES	$1,500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL	$1,500
NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART	$1,500

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 (FY21–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$289k · 43 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 38 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$289k

$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

Still filing today

67%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

TL
THE LOUISIANA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +2%
MO
MUSEUM OF THE SOUTHERN JEWISH EXPERIENCE
6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +138%
OC
OCHSNER CLINIC FOUNDATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +43%

Funded once

MA
MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger
one grant, 2025 · $2k · revenue 0%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE FISHER HOUSE OF SOUTHERN LOUISIANA
one grant, 2025 · $750
AD
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
one grant, 2025 · $500 · revenue 0%

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.

New Orleans Public Library Foundation

Support of the city of new orleans library system and city wide literacy efforts through parnter organizations, community organizations and initiatives including fundraising and expending funds to supplement library operations.

Education

Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

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Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy

Loyola University

Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…

Education

Louisiana Art & Science Museuminc

Louisiana art & science museum seeks to enhance the understanding and appreciation of art and science for general audiences and students by presenting unique, educational and entertaining programming that encourages discovery, inspires…

Arts & Culture

Lsu Health Foundation New Orleans

The mission of the foundation is to inspire donors to invest in the lsu health sciences center - new orleans ("hsc-no") and its future, to properly steward those contributions, and to help meet the ever evolving needs of the lsuhsc-no by…

Health

University of New Orleans Foundation

The University of New Orleans Foundation's mission is to promote the well-being and advancement of the University of New Orleans and all the colleges, schools, departments, and divisions comprising it, and to develop, expand, and improve…

Education

New Orleans and Company

The mission of new orleans & company is to inspire, promote and encourage travel to our city for the economic, social and community benefit of new orleans and its people. through marketing, public relations, direct sales to leisure…

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Arts Council of New Orleans

The Arts Council of New Orleans dba Arts New Orleans is a private, nonprofit organization with 501(c)(3) status dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the city.

Arts & Culture

A Child's Wish of Louisiana Inc

To grant wishes to and otherwise act for the benefit of children suffering from terminal or life theatening illness or disease.

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Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities

The louisiana endowment for the humanities is a non-profit organization whose mission is to partner with communities, institutions, and individuals to explore louisiana's past, reflect on our present, and imagine our future.

Arts & Culture

Aia Louisiana

To promote architecture.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

32 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. 32 of the 47 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)

31/32

Grantees still filing

20/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Arts & Culture$93,700Other$85,020Health$57,500Education$22,240Civil Rights$14,500Food & Nutrition$13,500Human Services$3,250Crime & Legal$2,500

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.

Goldring Family FoundationLA30.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Goldring Family Foundation · The Usdin-Weil Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Helis Foundation · Eugenie & Joseph Jones Family Foundation · Keller Family Foundation · Baptist Community Ministries · The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Woldenberg Foundation · Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation · Entergy Charitable Foundation · Betty and Ira Kohn 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 Van Der Linden Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Van Der Linden Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home