How much did LYNX FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

LYNX FOUNDATION reported 3 grants totaling $336,139 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is LYNX FOUNDATION based?

LYNX FOUNDATION is based in CA.

LYNX FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

LYNX FOUNDATION

Mobilizing the power of community and the resources of philanthropy to advance equity for people, places and the planet.

$336k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$333k

Largest

01What you fund

0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Crime & Legal$1.1MPhilanthropy$333kCivil Rights$200kInternational$100kEducation$55kOther$400k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

—

2021

hungercovidfood

2022

violence

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

$10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$250k+1 grant · $333k

$75,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Largest grants

MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$333,333
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION$75,000
10000 DEGREES$15,000

02The need

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:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 80% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6M · 5 repeat orgs$533k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.6M

$200k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%

+49%

Still filing today

80%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $333k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalInternationalEducationPhilanthropyCivil RightsOther

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

BC
BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
5× · 2018–2022 · $600k · revenue +54%
SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION
4× · 2018–2023 · $450k · revenue +124%
GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +450%

Funded once

UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -16%
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +27%
TA
TARRANT AREA FOOD BANKgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +105%

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.

United Food Bank

Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition

University of Denver

A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.

Education

Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation

Provide key decision makers with unbiased research & constructive solutions (see part iii)

Public Benefit

The Food Trust

Ensuring everyone has access to affordable nutritious food and information to make healthy decisions

Food & Nutrition

The University of Toledo Foundation

Aligning donor passion and generosity to advance the university of toledo through fundraising, stewardship, and prudent asset management to provide scholarship opportunities for students, tier one athletic programs, education events…

Education

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

Unicef Usa Impact Fund for Children Inc

Unicef usa impact fund for children exists to expand the continuum of financing for children.

Philanthropy

Oklahoma City University

Oklahoma city university prepares all learners to create, lead and serve.

Education

United States Naval Institute

To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.

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The Global FoodBanking Network

The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) is a global, nonprofit organization that provides food to people facing hunger while reducing food loss and waste, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)

International

The German Marshall Fund of the

The german marshall fund of the united states (gmf) is an american institution that strengthens transatlantic cooperation on regional, national and global challenges and opportunities in the spirit of the marshall plan.

International

Npr Foundation

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States Fund for Unicef and the most unlike its peers is Marin Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

8/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crime & Legal$1,050,000Other$400,000Philanthropy$333,333Civil Rights$200,000International$100,000Education$55,000

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation LYNX FOUNDATION 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LEGAL COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943324402 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LEGAL COMMUNITY AGAINST VIOLENCE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 90% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Lynx Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Lynx Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

LYNX FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?