· Private foundation
Lynn Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Youth Alive Ministries | $50,000 |
| Elevate Ministries | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Grace Baptist Church | $15,000 |
| Pathway Church | $15,000 |
| Good News Rescue Mission | $10,000 |
| Ripe for Harvest | $10,000 |
| CEF NorCal Northern Counties | $6,000 |
| Shasta Bible Church | $5,000 |
| Jaron Ministries | $5,000 |
| Camp Hope | $4,000 |
| Life Light Pregnancy Help Center | $4,000 |
| Care Net | $4,000 |
| Cottonwood Bible Baptist Church | $3,000 |
| First Baptist Church | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GNGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION3× · 2017–2023 · $38k · revenue +4%
- LLLIFE LIGHT PREGNANCY HELP CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
- THTHE HOPE EFFECT2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- EMELEVATE MINISTRIESone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IMIndigenous Ministriesone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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.
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Radio braodcast
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Present the gospel
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Ministry
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Religious Purposes
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Spread the Gospel
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lynn Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lynn Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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