· Private foundation
Lynn Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $6k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HEARD MUSEUM | $105,000 |
| HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC | $2,000 |
| AMER ASSOCIATES OF THE NAT'L THEATRE | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL'S SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA | $750 |
| MCCLUNG MUSEUM | $250 |
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 (FY20–20, $390) 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.
12 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 5 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HEARD MUSEUM7× · 2019–2025 · $150k · revenue +157%
- SPST PAUL'S SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $12k · revenue +100%
- AFAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC7× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +23%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +65%- WSWAYNE STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $1k
- IAINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PREMENSTRUAL DISORDERSone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -45%
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
See schedule o:asco is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
To facilitate harvard university's scientific, literary, and educational activities in washington, dc.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 20 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.
- Who funds HONORHEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH'S SMILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PREMENSTRUAL DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds SCOTTSDALE MUSEUM OF THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OXFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.
- Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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