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Lynford Family Charitable Trust

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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Health$141kArts & Culture$35kInternational$20kPhilanthropy$7kHousing & Shelter$4kEducation$3kCivil Rights$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$157k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM$10,000
BREATH-BODY-MIND FOUNDATION INC$6,600
FILM MAKER COLLABORATIVE$5,000
FUND FOR CITY OF NY$4,300
CULTURAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART$2,500
NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$2,000
BARRY & MARTIN AMERICAN INC$2,000
BOX OF BALLOONS$500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES NY SECOND CENTURY FUND$500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF STATEN ISLAND$300
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF STATEN ISLAND: $300 → 11%INCLUDENYC: $3k → 17%INCLUDENYC: $1k → 17%INCLUDENYC: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$139k · 10 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$139k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
0%

Still filing today

90%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesSocial ScienceHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • AC
    ANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM
    6× · 2020–2025 · $54k · revenue +30%
  • TB
    The Bhutan Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · $8k · revenue +24%
  • RF
    RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $4k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • NL
    NYU LANGONE HEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • NH
    NY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • EH
    EDUCATIONAL HOUSING SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
The Baruch College Fund

The baruch college fund is an organization engaged in generating, encouraging and promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
4
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Institute of Fine Arts Foundation

Supports the nyu institute of fine arts, a division of the nyu graduate school of arts and science; which is devoted to graduate teaching and research in the history of art and archeology and the conservation of works of art.

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8
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
9
New York University School of Law Foundation

The foundation, a subsidiary of new york university, fosters legal education and research at new york university's school of law by awarding scholarships, making grants for educational purposes related to law, and supporting programs of…

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Myriad Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Andrew Goodman 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.

04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 35 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
12/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NYU LANGONE HEALTH — $25,000 · OtherNYU LANGONE HEALTHCULTURAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART — $10,000 · OtherCULTURAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ARTThe Bhutan Foundation — $7,818 · OtherThe Bhutan FoundationNY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 · OtherNY HISTORICAL SOCIETYFUND FOR CITY OF NY — $4,300 · OtherFUND FOR CITY OF NYREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NY — $2,500 · OtherNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $2,500 · OtherEDUCATIONAL HOUSING SERVICES INC — $4,122 · OtherEDUCATIONAL HOUSING SERVICES INC+12 more — $9,100 · Other+12 moreANDERSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM — $45,500 · HealthANDERSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTIS…BREATH-BODY-MIND FOUNDATION INC — $6,600 · HealthBREATH-BODY-MIND FOUNDATION I…BARRY & MARTIN AMERICA INC — $5,000 · HealthBARRY & MARTIN AMERICA INC+1 more — $1,000 · HealthANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM — $53,635 · EducationANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISMWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · Education+1 more — $1,107 · EducationMYRIAD USA INC — $12,000 · InternationalGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND — $8,500 · Social ScienceTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureThe Laundromat Project Inc — $500 · Arts & CultureRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF STATEN ISLAND INC — $300 · Human Services
Other$72,840Health$58,100Education$56,742International$12,000Social Science$8,500Arts & Culture$7,500Human Services$4,300

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetANDERSON CENTER FOR AUTISM — $53,635 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetANDERSON FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM — $45,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND — $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Bhutan Foundation — $7,818 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FILMMAKERS COLLABORATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARRY & MARTIN AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetEDUCATIONAL HOUSING SERVICES INC — $4,122 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC WISE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $1,107 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL STUDIO & CURATORIAL PROGRAM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DUNHUANG FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBox of Balloons Inc — $500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC AGENDA INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF STATEN ISLAND INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Jewish Communal FundNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The New York Community TrustNY14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Lynford Family Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lynford Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Lynford Family Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 35 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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