· Private foundation
David B Lynch Foundation
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.
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 $10k11 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND CHARITABLE GRANT | $50,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE US | $40,000 |
| ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC | $40,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR NANTUCKET | $25,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC | $12,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| WBUR | $7,000 |
| NOBLE & GREENOUGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS | $5,000 |
| BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ROBERT PACKARD CENTER FOR ALS | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FDN | $2,000 |
| JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFINSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US7× · 2019–2025 · $230k · revenue ×12
- ERELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC8× · 2018–2025 · $164k · revenue +509%
PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- JIJOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +40%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $12k · revenue +94%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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Education and Research
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
How this is measured
22 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. 22 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.
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 INSTITUTE FOR STRATEGIC DIALOGUE-US ↗
- Who funds ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE FOR A CHILD USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE REEVES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF KISHORIT 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: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization David B Lynch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from David B Lynch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc: 10% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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