How much does Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust give?

Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust reported 1 grants totaling $285,790 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 125 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.

What does Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (74%), Education (8%), Arts & Culture (4%).

Who are Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bar Harbor Food Pantry ($35k), Local Solutions ($32k), Island Connections ($20k).

Does Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Colket Family Foundation, Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009.

Where is Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust based?

Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust is based in NH.

Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust

Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$286k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$286k

Largest

01What it funds

0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.6MEducation$171kArts & Culture$78kFood & Nutrition$55kHousing & Shelter$47kHuman Services$40kYouth Development$40kHealth$31kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$285,790

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
VARIOUS CHARITIES	$285,790

02The need

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 (FY17–20, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.8M · 32 repeat orgs$181k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109

Total granted

$1.8M

$181k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%

+58%

Still filing today

63%

10%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationFood & NutritionArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

BH
BAR HARBOR FOOD PANTRY
3× · 2017–2020 · $35k · revenue +584%
IC
ISLAND CONNECTIONS
3× · 2017–2020 · $20k · revenue +92%
MD
MOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC
3× · 2017–2020 · $18k · revenue +607%

Funded once

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OPEN TABLE MDIgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +58%
HH
Harbor House Community Service Centergraduated
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +32%
AW
ACADIA WILDLIFE FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +73%

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.

Monhegan Memorial Library

To maintain a library proving lending services to all residents of Monhegan Island, ME.

Education

Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve

The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.

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Chebeague Island Library

Operation of a community library on chebeague island, maine.

Education

Amagansett Free Library

Providing quality materials and services, which fulfill the educational, information, cultural and recreational needs of the entire community in an atmosphere that is welcoming and respectful.

Education

Maine Historical Society

Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…

Arts & Culture

Mount Desert Island Historical Society

The mission of the mount desert island historical society is to foster meaningful engagement with the histories of mount desert island

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Mt Desert Island Ymca

The mission of the Mount Desert Island YMCA is to develop community, character, personal growth and wellness in spirit, mind, and body for the greater Mount Desert Island community.

Human Services

Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc

Arts & Culture

Islesboro Islands Trust

The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…

Philanthropy

Mcarthur Library Association

Mission is to connect the Biddeford community with materials, programs, services, and other informational and cultural resources enabling fuller, better, and richer lives.

Education

Eastport Public Library

We are a free public library serving the people of eastport, me and the surrounding communities. the population is estimated to be 3,500 people.

Education

Buck Memorial Library

Library Services

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Housing Trust; the most unlike its peers is Bar Harbor Village Improvement. 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

32 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. 32 of the 142 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

32/32

Grantees still filing

28/32

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,727,118Philanthropy$227,000Education$67,178Food & Nutrition$52,500Human Services$35,376Arts & Culture$33,000Health$30,577

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.

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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME43.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Gerrish H Milliken Foundation 009209-009 · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · Fore River Foundation · Florence V Burden Foundation · Diana Davis Spencer Foundation Inc · Atwater Kent Foundation · The Medway Charitable Trust · John W and Clara C Higgins Foundation · The Howard Johnson 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 Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

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.

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The regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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