· Private foundation
Donald D Lynch Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 128 grants below total $2,040,671 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,445,972 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $405,301 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $214k
- $10k–50k87 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Acton Institute | $100,000 |
| Congregation of Holy Cross | $100,000 |
| Archdiocese for Military Services | $50,000 |
| Acton Institute | $50,000 |
| Dominican Sisters of Mary Mother of the Eucharist | $50,000 |
| Lynch Scholars Association | $50,000 |
| The Coming Home Network International | $40,000 |
| Togo Mission Inc. | $30,648 |
| Society of Missionaries of Africa (Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)) | $25,000 |
| House of Champions | $25,000 |
| Home of Hope India US | $25,000 |
| Franciscan Friars of Tiffin | $25,000 |
| St. John the Baptist Church - Lakkaravam | $25,000 |
| Missionaries Servants of the Most Holy Trinity - Guatemala | $25,000 |
| St. Joseph Mission Parish - Diocese of Eluru | $25,000 |
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Divine Mercy Ministries, Inc. is a Christian maternity home for women 18 years of age and older facing unexpected pregnancies. Open to women of all faiths, it provides a loving and nurturing environment to meet the spiritual, physical,…
To provide physical and emotional support to women and their families facing unplanned pregnancies through a christ centered and biblically based approach.
To provide support for pregnant women
The Pregnancy Care Center is a Christian organization to promote the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to boldly endorse the sacredness of all human life, by providing comprehensive, practical services as enduring alternatives to abortion.
Life Matters Worldwide encourages, equips and strengthens pregnancy care workers so they can continue to provide life-affirming services.
Hannahs Home is a Christ-centered life-affirming maternity home for women who are in crisis.
Tender Life is a Christ-centered ministry ensuring life for unborn children by providing opportunities for housing, help and hope for women during their pregnancies and beyond.
Aid for Women operates pregnancy help centers, pregnancy medical clinics and residential programs to assist women in difficult and unexpected pregnancy situations so that they might choose life.
To serve women struggling with unplanned pregnancy by providing housing, food and life training to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the mother and baby.
Sharing the gospel message and upholding the sanctity of human life by demonstrating the love of Christ to men and women facing unplanned pregnancies by providing spiritual, physical, and emotional support.
To provide pregnancy support, medical information, pregnancy testing, limited obstetrical ultrasound, and parenting instruction for individuals confronted with an unexpected pregnancy. Our care for women is given, all to the Glory of God!
Sharing the love of christ while promoting sexual integrity and bringing life affirming services to those unprepared for pregnancy or hurt by abortion
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Resource Center of Hancock County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Evening Rainbow Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 122 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Knights of Columbus Charities Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Aetna Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.