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Berneice U Lynn Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
57%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,690
Largest grant, FY2025
$7,175
Organizations funded a year
7 to 18
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.5M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 57% of the organizations Berneice U Lynn Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving6$23k33%
FY20247$20k57%
FY202312$19k58%
FY202213$18k15%
FY202115$21k53%
FY20209$21k22%
FY201918$26k39%
FY201816$25k38%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$199k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MA
OR
IA
IN
CA
UT
AZ
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brigham Young University$7,7945n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$6,3412n/a
Grand Canyon University$5,29340%
The Master's University and Seminary$5,05240%
University of Massachusetts Global$2,25020%
University of la Verne$1,85420%
Azusa Pacific University$1,74520%
University of San Diego$1,13910%
Sonoma State University$1,0801n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$1,0721n/a
Show all 15 grantees
All grantees of Berneice U Lynn Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Brigham Young University$7,7945n/a
Regents of the University of California at Irvine$6,3412n/a
Grand Canyon University$5,29340%
The Master's University and Seminary$5,05240%
University of Massachusetts Global$2,25020%
University of la Verne$1,85420%
Azusa Pacific University$1,74520%
University of San Diego$1,13910%
Sonoma State University$1,0801n/a
Trustees of Purdue University$1,0721n/a
Willamette University$1,05010%
Washington State University$1,0201n/a
University of Redlands$93810%
Northeastern University$93510%
George Fox University$54010%

Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($159k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Berneice U Lynn Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGrand Canyon University: $5,293 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Master's University and Seminary: $5,052 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Massachusetts Global: $2,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of la Verne: $1,854 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAzusa Pacific University: $1,745 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $1,139 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWillamette University: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Redlands: $938 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $935 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Fox University: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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How do I get to Berneice U Lynn Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Berneice U Lynn Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Berneice U Lynn Foundation

How much does Berneice U Lynn Foundation give?
Berneice U Lynn Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $22,840 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Berneice U Lynn Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Berneice U Lynn Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brigham Young University ($8k), Regents of the University of California at Irvine ($6k), Grand Canyon University ($5k).
Does Berneice U Lynn Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Berneice U Lynn Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Berneice U Lynn Foundation based?
Berneice U Lynn Foundation is based in CA.

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 54 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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