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Lynch Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$93k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$59k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$379kReligion$237kHousing & Shelter$62kHuman Services$15kEmployment$5kFood & Nutrition$4kHealth$1kRecreation & Sports$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $59k
$2,064
Median grant
4
States reached
$440k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Light From Light$59,300
St Peter's Church$10,000
My Sisters House$5,000
The Lamb Institute$5,000
One80 Place$3,600
Mission Impact$3,300
Compassion International$2,064
The Lamb Institute$1,200
Water Missions International$1,200
Low Country Ophan Relief$700
Shepherds Staff Mission$650
LowCountry Food Bank$550
Girls on the Run$500
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 (FY17–23, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 14%TRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 14%TRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 14%TRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL: $2k → 14%Palmetto Goodwill: $3k → 12%PALMETTO GOODWILL: $1k → 12%PALMETTO GOODWILL: $1k → 12%OPERATION HOME: $5k → 12%Operation Home: $5k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $3k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $3k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $3k → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $650 → 12%LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $500 → 12%Lowcountry Orphan Relief: $500 → 12%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$696k · 15 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against -9% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

$696k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
-9%

Still filing today

73%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • LF
    LIGHT FROM LIGHT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $293k · revenue +111%
  • MI
    MISSION IMPACT INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $218k · revenue +43%
  • OP
    One-Eighty Place
    7× · 2017–2024 · $51k · revenue +149%

Funded once

  • HT
    HOMELESS TO HOPE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • BC
    BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -9%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
2
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
3
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
4
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
5
International Crisis Aid Inc

Provide aid to people in need worldwide

Human Services
6
Children Rescues International

Mobilize loving and qualified Pastors, Caregivers, Educators, Administrative Personnel, and Volunteers to establish Children's Homes, Schools, and Medical Clinics in Liberia. Facilities and programming are designed to care for orphaned…

International
7
Global Partners in Care

The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.

International
8
Human Concern International

To help alleviate human suffering through relief assistance and long term development projects

Human Services
9
International Medical Corps

To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.

International
10
Limbs International Inc

Engaging communities and transforming lives through sustainable prosthetic solutions.

Health
11
Childrens House International

Children's house international provides ethical adoption services, child focused recruitment, and family support. we support disadvantaged children with humanitarian aid in countries worldwide.

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12
The Orphans Hands Inc

The Orphan's Hands provides a safe home and education for orphaned youth at risk of being trafficked in high-risk countries while bringing the love and hope of Jesus.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Water Missions International; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LIGHT FROM LIGHT INC: $293,300 · InternationalLIGHT FROM LIGHT INCWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $24,050 · InternationalWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONALCompassion International Incorporated: $13,086 · International+2 more: $2,200 · InternationalMISSION IMPACT INC: $218,200 · ReligionMISSION IMPACT INCLAMB INSTITUTE: $33,400 · ReligionLAMB INSTITUTEOne-Eighty Place: $50,524 · Housing & ShelterTRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,900 · Human ServicesLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $10,250 · Human ServicesOPERATION HOME INC: $10,150 · Human ServicesMy Sister's House Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesPALMETTO GOODWILL: $4,500 · Human ServicesST PETERS CHURCH: $16,300 · OtherLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $4,150 · OtherShepherds Staff Mission: $2,300 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS: $1,050 · OtherHOMELESS TO HOPE FUND: $1,000 · Other+5 more: $2,300 · OtherBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 · HealthMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $365 · Health
International$332,636Religion$251,600Housing & Shelter$50,524Human Services$42,800Other$27,100Health$1,365

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIGHT FROM LIGHT INC: $293,300 over 7y, 8.5% of budgetMISSION IMPACT INC: $218,200 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetOne-Eighty Place: $50,524 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLAMB INSTITUTE: $33,400 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $24,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCompassion International Incorporated: $13,086 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL INC: $12,900 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF: $10,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOPERATION HOME INC: $10,150 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMy Sister's House Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALMETTO GOODWILL: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC: $4,150 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN IN THE SON INC: $1,700 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION: $365 over 1y, 0.0% 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 LIGHT FROM LIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSION IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds One-Eighty Place ↗
  • Who funds LAMB INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds TRUE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY ORPHAN RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds My Sister's House Inc ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO GOODWILL ↗
  • Who funds LOWCOUNTRY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN IN THE SON INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL LEADERSHIP INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 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.

Coastal Community Fou…Gods Goods Mt PleasantNatl Christian Charit…Dominion Energy Chari…Morgan Stanley Global…Raymond James Charita…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina IncSC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Gods Goods Mt Pleasant · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Lynch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lynch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 25 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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