· Private foundation
Paul Lynch Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NYU | $9,298 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,119 |
| RCPA | $2,100 |
| YMCA | $1,600 |
| Lawrence County Humane Society | $1,550 |
| Jameson Hospital Foundation | $1,400 |
| Penn State University | $783 |
| Human Services Center | $438 |
| Meals on Wheels | $400 |
| New Castle High School | $300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| United Way of Lawrence County | $200 |
| Neshannock High School | $100 |
| New Castle Playhouse | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $65 |
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 (FY22–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA3× · 2022–2024 · $75k
- NNYU5× · 2020–2025 · $24k
- LCLAWRENCE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- EAEpiscopal Academyone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +8%
- NVNew Visions of New Castleone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $434
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.
Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Louisville collegiate school inspires academic excellence, extraordinary character and global citizenship.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The provision of management services to the chester county hospital and its affiliates.
To inspire curiosity, creativity, and confidence by fostering an inclusive environment for hands-on stem exploration. we actively seek to make our facility and educational programs accessible to all.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Depauw university develops leaders the world needs through an uncommon commitment to the liberal arts. depauw's diverse and inclusive learning and living experience, distinctive in its rigorous intellectual engagement and its global and…
Provides managerial and financial support to its controlled organizations and is also responsible for undertaking activities designed to advance the general health of the community.
Cedar crest college is a liberal arts college primarily for women dedicated to the education of the next generation of leaders. the college prepares students for life in a global community by educating the whole student at all stages of…
Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 31 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 LAWRENCE COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES CENTER ↗
- Who funds Episcopal Academy ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE ROSES ↗
- Who funds United Way of Lawrence County ↗
- Who funds THE CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CASTLE PLAYHOUSE 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: Hoyt Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Paul Lynch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul Lynch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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