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Conor Lynch Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1k
Granted FY2026still arriving
2
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2026.

Public Safety & Disaster$14kCommunity Improvement$14kRecreation & Sports$9kEducation$3kPhilanthropy$1kHealth$1kYouth Development$500Arts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2026 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,023
Median grant
2
States reached
$10k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25$1,023
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$250
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 (FY19–19, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GRIEF HAVEN: $100 → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
NJ
CA
NE
VA
MD
TN
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 10 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$38k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+57%

Still filing today

70%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Public Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • KK
    KEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25
    9× · 2017–2026 · $8k · revenue +56%
  • SA
    STREETS ARE FOR EVERYONE
    2× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +216%
  • GS
    GREATER SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +482%

Funded once

  • TA
    TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +8%
  • RS
    ROAD SAFETY FILM FESTIVAL
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $1k
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
Walk San Francisco Foundation

Walk SF works to make San Francisco the safest, most walkable city in the United States.

Public Safety & Disaster
2
National Foundation for Teen Safe Driving Inc

Primary Exempt Purpose National Foundation for Teen Safe Driving is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit charitable organization dedicated to reducing the number of deaths and injuries resulting from automobile crashes by promoting safe driving and…

Crime & Legal
3
Nora Rose-Hines Foundation

We are an organzation that is dedicated to reducing crashes, deaths and injuries on our nations highways by creating safer streets, improving driving behaviors and public awareness by creating documentaries, educational programs and public…

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Motorsport Safety Foundation Corp
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5
Aaa Foundation for Traffic Safety

The aaa foundation for traffic safety's mission is to save lives and reduce injuries through research into the causes of traffic crashes, and education about proven strategies for mitigating risks on the road.

—
6
The Dori Slosberg Foundation Inc

1) educate teen drivers about the importance of traffic and road safety 2) promote the usage of safe driving habits with a focus on teen driver seatbelt compliance and curtailing distracted and impaired driving 3) support and advance teen…

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Safe Routes to School National

The Safe Routes to School National Partnerships mission is to advance safe walking and bicycling to and from schools, and in daily life, to improve the health and well-being of Americas children and to foster the creation of livable,…

Human Services
8
Safer Initiative
—
9
Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition

The Sonoma County Bicycle Coalition promotes bicycle riding for transportation and recreation through government advocacy and public education for the community about bicycle safety, the benefits of bicycling, including good health and…

Education
10
Marine Safety Institute

Reduce waterfront accidents, injuries and fatalities

Public Safety & Disaster
11
American Driver and Traffic Safety Education Association

Developing and promoting excellence among driver and traffic safety education professionals in the delivery of instruction to all drivers.

Public Safety & Disaster
12
The Street Trust Community Fund

The street trust advocates for multimodal transportation options that prioritize safety, accessibility, equity, and climate justice in the portland metro region.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is We Save Lives; the most unlike its peers is Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration. 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

15 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. 15 of the 27 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $7,080 · OtherTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INCNOYS: $6,674 · OtherNOYSIndividual grant recipient: $3,876 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGREATER SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3,112 · OtherGREATER SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCEROAD SAFETY FILM FESTIVAL: $3,000 · OtherROAD SAFETY FILM FESTIVALLIFESAVERS CONFERENCE INC: $2,000 · OtherLIFESAVERS CONFERENCE INCNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: $1,475 · Other+11 more: $7,357 · Other+11 moreKEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25: $8,050 · Public Safety & DisasterKEEP KIDS ALIVE DR…NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL: $1,349 · Public Safety & DisasterNATIONAL SAFETY CO…Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: $6,754 · Recreation & SportsInclusion Matte…AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION: $750 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN YOUTH …STREETS ARE FOR EVERYONE: $3,250 · Community ImprovementStreet Racing Kills: $1,021 · HealthTHE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION: $250 · Youth DevelopmentWE SAVE LIVES: $100 · Civil RightsThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation: $100 · Human Services
Other$34,574Public Safety & Disaster$9,399Recreation & Sports$7,504Community Improvement$3,250Health$1,021Youth Development$250Civil Rights$100Human Services$100

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 budgetKEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25: $8,050 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $7,080 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration: $6,754 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSTREETS ARE FOR EVERYONE: $3,250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $3,112 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLIFESAVERS CONFERENCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL: $1,349 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStreet Racing Kills: $1,021 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalk San Francisco: $250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds KEEP KIDS ALIVE DRIVE 25 ↗
  • Who funds TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
  • Who funds STREETS ARE FOR EVERYONE ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SAN FERNANDO VALLEY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
  • Who funds LIFESAVERS CONFERENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Street Racing Kills ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds The Michael Bonanomi Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Walk San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds THE EMILY SHANE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WE SAVE LIVES ↗
  • Who funds The Erika Whitmore Godwin Foundation ↗

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.

Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Conor Lynch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conor Lynch Foundation. 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%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lifesavers Conference Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 27 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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