· Private foundation
Lynch Foundation Inc
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 $10k36 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S RC CHURCH | $12,400 |
| WESTOVER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $11,200 |
| MON GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MON AND PRESTON COUNTIES | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS GRADE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT | $4,200 |
| ST URSULAS FOOD PANTRY | $3,200 |
| WVU COLLEGE OF B & E | $3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $2,700 |
| CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH | $2,500 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC | $2,200 |
| SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE | $2,200 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $2,200 |
| WVU FOUNDATION - AEF | $2,000 |
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, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +78%
- CMCHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $22k · revenue +359%
- MAMOUNTAINEER AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- WFWVU FOUNDATION - ATHLETIC CLUBone grant, 2017 · $6k
- SRSCOTT'S RUN PARK AND RECREATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GSGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHWESTERN PAone grant, 2017 · $3k
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.
To provide primary medical care service in a rural community.
To serve the needs of individuals suffering from life-limiting illness as well as to serve the individuals caring for them. to place emphasis on comfort and quality of life while fulfilling the physical, psychological, social and spiritual…
Youth shelter
Establish, conduct, implement, operate, coordinate and finance programs for the benefit of the low-income, minority, elderly, disadvantaged and handicapped citizens of wayne county, wv
To provide home health care services - nursing, therapy and support services to patients in berkeley, morgan and jefferson counties, w.v.
Mountain state justice provides free legal services to low income people in west virginia and assures that low income people have access to the court system.
Providing comprehensive home-based and facility based hospice care to children and adults with life limiting and life threatening illnesses in southeastern pennsylvania. in addition, keystone hospice provides residential care through…
Providing administrative services to its two subsidiaries, keystone hospice and keystone home health, llc. providing social services to medically fragile populations in southeastern pennsylvania.
To provide quality ambulance service to the residents of marion county, west virginia.
Valley health care, inc. is a federally qualified health center which provideds medical services to the residents of mill creek, elkins, and the surrounding areas within west virginia.
Provide services to senior citizens of Summers County, West Virginia.
To provide services to the senior citizens of Pocahontas County, West Virginia
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Scotts Run Settlement House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cheat Lake Volunteer Fire Dept Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 57 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 COMMUNITY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MILAN PUSKAR HEALTH RIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT MOUNTAIN RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds SCOTTS RUN SETTLEMENT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAINEER AREA COUNCIL OF BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds SHACK NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PANTRY PLUS MORE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE CARE CORPORATION D/B/A WEST VIRGINIA CARING ↗
- Who funds Star City Volunteer Fire Dept Inc ↗
- Who funds Cheat Lake Volunteer Fire Dept 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: John M Brown Family Foundation · George D Hott Foundation · United Way of Monongalia and Preston Counites Inc · Milan Puskar Foundation Inc · Empty Bowls Monongalia · Hazel Ruby McQuain Charitable Trust · Your Community Foundation of North Central Wv Inc · Weldon Family Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Truist West Virginia Foundation Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Lynch Foundation Inc 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.