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Adelaide Dawson Lynch Mem Trust at a glance

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Adelaide Dawson Lynch Mem Trust

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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$34kHuman Services$25kHousing & Shelter$20kCrime & Legal$9kYouth Development$7kReligion$6kRecreation & Sports$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$391k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JONNYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE DALE$2,500
MCAULEY CORPORATION$2,000
Westerly-Area-Rest-Meals-Warm-Inc$2,000
AMOS HOUSE SOUP KITCHEN & FOOD PANTRY$2,000
BETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND$1,500
Dr Martin Luther King Jr Comm Center$1,500
Women's Resource Center$1,000
North Kingstown Food Pantry Inc$1,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PROVIDENCE$1,000
BENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC$1,000
Blackstone Valley Community Action Prog$1,000
DORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RI INC$1,000
Rhode Island Community Food Bank Assoc$1,000
EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY$1,000
St Peters By the Sea Church$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BLACKSTONE VALLEY ADVOCACY CENTER: $2k → 14%Good Neighbors Inc: $2k → 14%Benjamin Church Senior Center Inc: $1k → 7%Good Neighbors Inc: $1k → 14%BENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC: $1k → 7%Good Neighbors Inc: $1k → 14%Women's Resource Center: $1k → 7%ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2k → 14%ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $500 → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $2k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$86k · 16 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
8

Total granted

$86k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+66%

Still filing today

75%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • MCAULEY CORPORATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $8k · revenue +43%
  • BETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +137%
  • BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • BV
    BLACKSTONE VALLEY ADVOCACY CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +76%
  • THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +66%
  • UC
    United Church of Christ
    one grant, 2023 · $2k
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.

1
Westbay Community Action Inc

To organize, plan and provide social services to low income and elderly individuals.

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2
Jamestown Community Food Pantry

We seek to minimize hunger and provide nutritional sustenanc

Food & Nutrition
3
Rhode Island Rescue Ministries

Christian mission to the poor providing food, shelter clothing and counseling to the homeless

Human Services
4
Ri Center Assisting Those in Need

To provide with dignity, emergency food and outreach to thousands of at-risk neighbors in southern rhode island and surrounding communities.

Human Services
5
Rhode Island Dream Center

The rhode island dream center provides hope and holistic support to the impoverished in the greater rhode island area through food, clothing and services.

Human Services
6
Little Compton Food Bank

Provide nourishing food and basic necessities to the residents of Little Compton and Tiverton Rhode Island.

Food & Nutrition
7
West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc

To supply the necessary food to needy residents

Food & Nutrition
8
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc

To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity

Human Services
9
Rhode Island Food Policy Council

Promoting a more equitable, economically vibrant, and environmentally sustainable food system in rhode island.

Food & Nutrition
10
Housing Assistance Corporation

Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…

Housing & Shelter
11
Mae Organization Inc

The mission of mae organization is to work with the homeless and help them transition through workshops, and other related programs

Employment
12
Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc

To serve people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty by providing food assistance and services that promote health, community, and equity. the organization serves hot evening meals, packs free bag lunches, stocks food pantry…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jonnycake Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Haven of Grace Ministries 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

21 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. 21 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC: $11,500 · OtherTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INCMCAULEY CORPORATION: $7,500 · OtherMCAULEY CORPORATIONBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND: $7,000 · OtherBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLANDAMOS HOUSESOUP KITCHEN AND FOOD: $6,500 · OtherAMOS HOUSESOUP KITCHEN AND FOODDR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR HUNGRY RELIEF: $6,500 · OtherDR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR HUNGRY RELIEFHOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY: $6,500 · OtherHOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITYNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 · OtherNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC+9 more: $13,500 · Other+9 moreCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 · Human ServicesCROSSROADS RHODE …GOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesGOOD NEIGHBORS IN…BLACKSTONE VALLEY ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesBLACKSTONE VALLEY…BENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesBENJAMIN CHURCH S…ST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S HOME FO…WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $1,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RESOURCE C…EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY: $7,000 · Food & NutritionRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Food & NutritionWESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterLUCY'S HEARTH: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsLittle Compton Community Center Corporation: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Haven of Grace Ministries Inc: $1,000 · Community ImprovementDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,000 · International
Other$63,000Human Services$16,000Food & Nutrition$8,000Housing & Shelter$8,000Youth Development$6,500Recreation & Sports$2,500Community Improvement$1,000International$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMCAULEY CORPORATION: $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBETTER LIVES RHODE ISLAND: $7,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BAY FOOD PANTRY: $7,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH KINGSTOWN FOOD PANTRY INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD NEIGHBORS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLUCY'S HEARTH: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY ADVOCACY CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENJAMIN CHURCH SENIOR CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetST MARY'S HOME FOR CHILDREN: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven of Grace Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBLACKSTONE VALLEY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS RESOURCE CENTER OF NEWPORT AND BRISTOL COUNTIES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The Rhode Island Comm…The Champlin Foundati…United Way of Rhode I…Citizens Charitable F…Rhode Island Communit…Centreville Savings B…Uw Urania C SherburneHarry M Miriam C Will…Billy Andrade-Brad Fa…Washington Trust Co C…Ida Ballou Littlefiel…Banknewport Charitabl…
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI45.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Uw Urania C Sherburne · Harry M Miriam C Will C Horton F · Billy Andrade-Brad Faxon Charities for Children Inc · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · Ida Ballou Littlefield Memorial Trust · Banknewport Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Adelaide Dawson Lynch Mem Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adelaide Dawson Lynch Mem Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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