Skip to content

South Carolina · Private foundation

Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$52k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
25%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,400
Organizations funded a year
8 to 17
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$1.1M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationOther
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 arriving9$52k11%
FY20248$34k25%
FY202313$39k31%
FY202217$85k6%
FY202116$89k0%
FY202016$77k38%
FY201913$66k8%
FY201815$91k13%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$177kHuman Services$128kEducation$79kYouth Development$59kAnimals$40kPhilanthropy$32kArts & Culture$25kRecreation & Sports$12kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
KY
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 18 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Independence Fund Inc: $106,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHilton Head Humane Association: $45,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $31,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $27,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetArts Center of Coastal Carolina: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Shriners' Hospital for Children: $22,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Classic Foundation: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Center Inc: $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of the Lowcountry Inc: $8,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMemory Matters: $7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLinville Central Rescue Squad Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMoss Creek Marines Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJudicial Watch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMirasol Health Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 18.

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.

Community Foundation of the LowcountrySC22× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · The Gleason Family Foundation Inc · Heritage Classic Foundation · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · David W Ellis Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Ekedahl Foundation · Myers Family Charitable Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Hilton Head Island-Sunset

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.

Compare Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc with peer funders

About Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $51,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Human Services (23%), Education (14%).
Who are Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Independence Fund Inc ($106k), Hilton Head Humane Association ($45k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($35k).
Does Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc 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 Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of the Lowcountry, The Gleason Family Foundation Inc, Heritage Classic Foundation.
Where is Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc is based in SC.

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 32 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Michael & Louise Lynch’s filings →

More from the funding graph