Linde Family Foundation

• The Linde Family Foundation, based in Boston, MA, funds a broad range of causes, including arts and cultural groups, schools and universities, medical and health organisations, and social-service and community organisations, with named purposes covering community arts and arts education, STEM pathways and youth programmes, medical research and healthcare, reproductive-health access, food support and housing; many awards are recorded simply as general operating support rather than one single field, so a wide variety of small nonprofits working in these areas could find a fit.
• No geographic focus is stated, though its filings show grants mainly in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
• For request size, aim modestly: about 8 in 10 of its 306 grants fall between $5,000 and $175,000, and half were $25,000 or less, with the median grant at $25,000, though it has made at least one much larger grant of about $2,850,000.
• There is no deadline given in its filing and it accepts applications, with Mott Philanthropic listed as its contact, so there is no set timing to work around.
• With 74% of its grant dollars going to organisations it had already funded in the previous two filings, the foundation looks relationship-led, favouring continuity with existing grantees, so a first-time applicant should treat it as a competitive approach rather than an easy one.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Museum of Fine Arts Boston · Community arts initiative (cai)/table of voices (tov)/steam team
  $2,830,0482024 tax year
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · Linde family primary care leadership institute and expanding hypertension care
  $2,700,0002024 tax year
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute · Center for therapeutic discovery
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra · General operations, intensive community program faculty salaries, and creating the byso youth center for music
  $1,200,0002024 tax year
• Wesleyan University · Undergraduate financial aid endowment fund, facilities fund & center for prison education
  $1,025,0002024 tax year
• Now and There · The boston public art triennial 2025
  $500,0002024 tax year
• Hopewell Fund · Access fund & access, quality & sustainability fund
  $350,0002024 tax year
• National Abortion Federation Hotline Fund · Dr. tiller patient assistance fund
  $250,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.