· Private foundation
Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon 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 you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $24k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL | $13,500 |
| Terra Ceia United Methodist Church | $10,000 |
| NCH Center of Philanthrophy | $7,500 |
| Solebury School | $6,700 |
| Turning Point USA | $5,000 |
| Both Hands | $5,000 |
| Springdale Chestnut Hill Academy | $5,000 |
| Cranbrook Schools (Endowment) | $5,000 |
| Cranbrook Institute of Science | $4,500 |
| Morris Arboretum & Gardens | $4,000 |
| Friends of the Wissahickon | $3,800 |
| Prager U | $3,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Friends of Pastorius Park | $3,000 |
| Cranbrook Educational Community | $2,250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +319%- BHBoth Hands Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +83%
- AFAlliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc3× · 2021–2025 · $26k · revenue +321%
Funded once
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +34%
- NCNeighborhood Clinicone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SCSpringfield Chestnut Hill Academy - Scholarship Programone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To educate children by engaging them actively in experiences that challenge students to solve problems as cooperative, confident, and responsible learners.
The mission of lakeland christian school is to educate students in the light of god's word to equip them for a lifetime of learning, leadership, service and worship.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
The mission of barclay college is to prepare students in a bible-centered environment for effective christian life, service, and leadership.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
See schedule o.in partnership with committed parents, our mission is to provide a purpose-driven college preparatory program, within a vibrant christ-centered environment that empowers students to discover their passions and to develop…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chestnut Hill Garden District Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds CRANBROOK EDUCATIONAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MOORINGS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Both Hands Foundation ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Period Supplies of SWFL Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chestnut Hill Garden District Fund ↗
- Who funds Bradenton Christian School Society Inc DBA Bradenton Christian School ↗
- Who funds SOLEBURY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds CONCERNED WOMEN FOR AMERICA ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds BEAUMONT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES YACHT CLUB BLUE GAVEL SCHOLARSHIP SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PASTORIUS PARK IN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Collier Community Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mr & Mrs Wayne B Lyon 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.