· Private foundation
Bryan Lynch Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION | $65,000 |
| KANSAS ATHLETICS | $17,000 |
| BISHOP SEABURY ACADEMY | $14,000 |
| ST LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION | $12,200 |
| SAINT PETER'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $12,000 |
| FOREST PARK FOREVER | $10,000 |
| DOUGLAS COUNTY CASA | $5,000 |
| MOUNT VERNON CEMETARY ASSOCIATION | $1,800 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 16% of Bryan Lynch Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FPForest Park Forever Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +213%
- BSBISHOP SEABURY ACADEMY4× · 2022–2025 · $79k · revenue +18%
- NWNATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL4× · 2017–2021 · $6k · revenue +227%
Funded once
- VGVAN GO INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -10%
- NYNEW YORK MUSICAL FESTIVALone grant, 2017 · $5k
- RVRAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
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.
Economic development.
Fostering community and joy across the st. louis region through the shakespearean tradition of art for all.
To promote the possibilities of charitable giving, helping charitable citizens understand how they can effectively provide for the community they love and the causes they care deeply about.
Foster economic growth and improved quality of life in the st. louis area by producing events, enhancing its national and international image as a premier sports region, and increasing community awareness of the value of sports.
As the leading public catalyst for arts and culture in st. louis, the regional arts commission leverages the power of creativity to strengthen and enrich our community.
The sole purpose of the foundation is to support the saint louis art museum, including but not limited to fundraising and other activities and assisting in financing expansion and renovation of its facilities.
Greater st. louis, inc. brings together business and civic leaders to create jobs, drive inclusive economic growth, and increase the st. louis metro area's global competitiveness. we speak with a unified voice, lead with a bold agenda, and…
Support the st. louis science center and its comprehensive array of educational outreach programs to the community in order to increase interest, understanding and enthusiasm for stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
The mission of st. louis voices academy of media arts is to leverage media arts and storytelling to equip students with the agency to excel academically, author their own futures, and make meaningful contributions in their communities.
Jazz st louis is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to lead our community in advancing the uniquely american art of jazz through performance, education, and community engagement.
Jefferson national parks association provides quality educational products and related services that enhance public understanding and appreciation of america's national parks, public lands and historic places.
The missouri historical society (mhs) is a missouri pro forma decree, not-for-profit corporation whose primary functions are educational and community programs; collections and conservation; library and research; and exhibitions.…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Forest Park Forever Inc ↗
- Who funds BISHOP SEABURY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SAINT LOUIS ZOO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STARKLOFF DISABILITY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds VAN GO INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WWI MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE PROPERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS COUNTY CASA PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORN LEADERSHIP SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds STIEFEL THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHTANK THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW VILLAGE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · The William R Orthwein Jr and Laura Rand Orthwein Foundation Inc · World Wide Technology Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bryan Lynch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bryan Lynch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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