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EM Lynn 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $563k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+5 grants · $4.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Stetson University | $3,000,000 |
| The Buoniconti Fund | $625,000 |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation | $360,000 |
| YMCA of South Palm Beach County | $275,000 |
| Lynn University | $250,000 |
| American Heart Association | $221,154 |
| FAU Foundation | $200,000 |
| Stem Cell Cancer & Regen Med Research Inc | $150,000 |
| LIFE | $100,000 |
| Boca Raton Rotary Fund | $100,000 |
| Bigger Than Sports | $100,000 |
| Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation | $100,000 |
| Tri County Animal Rescue | $60,000 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County | $55,000 |
| The George Snow Scholarship Fund | $51,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 13 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $926k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LULYNN UNIVERSITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $14M · revenue +46%
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6.1M · revenue +49%
- TBTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +129% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- ACAllianz Championship Benefiting Boca Raton Regional Hospitalone grant, 2017 · $100k
- BWBoca West Children's Foundtionone grant, 2024 · $30k
- YOYMCA of Soiuth Palm Beach Countyone grant, 2024 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of boca raton regional hospital is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is…
Saint andrew's school is an independent school founded in the episcopal tradition. our mission is to build a community of learners, provide excellence in education, and nurture each student in mind, body, and spirit.
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of doctors hospital, inc. is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a…
UF Health's mission is to promote health through outstanding and high-quality patient care, innovative and rigorous education in the health professions and biomedical sciences, and high-impact research across the spectrum of basic,…
Fiu health care network's mission is to improve and support medical education at the fiu herbert wertheim college of medicine and provide clinical support services to the larger fiu community.
The fiu research foundation provides means by which discoveries, inventions, processes, and work products of faculty, staff and students of the university may be patented, developed, applied and utilized in order that the results of such…
To improve the health of all we serve through community-owned health care services that set the standard for high-quality, compassionate care. AS a part of BayCare Health System, South Florida Baptist Hospital is the best place to work,…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of baptist health medical group inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist…
As part of the baptist health network, the mission of miami cancer institute at baptist health, inc is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve.…
University of South Florida Foundation, Inc.'s mission is to provide charitable and educational aid to the University of South Florida; to promote education and other related activities of the University; and to encourage research,…
The mission of baptist health is to improve the health and well-being of individuals, and to promote the sanctity and preservation of life, in the communities we serve. baptist health is a faith-based organization guided by the spirit of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Morgan Pressel Foundation Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 11. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 18% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 149 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.
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LYNN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON CHAMPIONS GOLF CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON ROTARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA HELPING HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds STEM CELL CANCER AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hospice of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE FULLER CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE SNOW SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Equine Assisted Therapies of South Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds Junior League of Boca Raton Inc ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Mind Peaceful Life Inc ↗
- Who funds STAND AMONG FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE FOR THE ARTS AT MIZNER PARK INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation Xxxxx3004 · Bay Branch Foundation · Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc · The Vegso Family Foundation Inc · The James H and Marta T Batmasian Family Foundation Inc · Quantum Foundation Inc · Pechter Family Foundation · Boca West Children's Foundation Fka Boca West Community Charitable Foundation · Children's Healthcare Charity Inc · United Way of Palm Beach County Inc · The Reiling Family 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization EM Lynn Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Project Medishare for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lynn University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Chapman Partnership Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach Atlantic University Inc — 0% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs Inc — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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