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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 FY2025(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
4 to 12
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$157k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Lynford Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving10$34k70%
FY202412$50k67%
FY20234$33k50%
FY20226$18k33%
FY202110$40k60%
FY20209$32kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MO
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lynford Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

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

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.

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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.

About Lynford Family Charitable Trust

How much does Lynford Family Charitable Trust give?
Lynford Family Charitable Trust reported 10 grants totaling $33,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 12 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Lynford Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (64%), Arts & Culture (16%), International (9%).
Who are Lynford Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Anderson Center for Autism ($54k), Anderson Foundation for Autism ($46k), Global Heritage Fund ($9k).
Does Lynford Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lynford Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lynford Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The New York Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is Lynford Family Charitable Trust based?
Lynford Family Charitable Trust is based in NY.

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 35 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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