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Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2025
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$4,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$269k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Public BenefitOther
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 arriving1$4k0%
FY20215$295k100%
FY20201$1000%
FY201911$32k55%
FY20188$78k63%
FY201711$40kn/a
86% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$250kReligion$108kArts & Culture$75kHealth$4kHuman Services$2kEnvironment$529Other$0

Top grantees

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

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Artis-Naples Inc$75,00030%
Arborvitae Inc$2,00011%
Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa)$2,00010%
The Boot Campaign Inc$1,00010%
Naples Botanical Garden Inc$52910%
St Marys Church$501n/a

Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($368k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust

How much does Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust give?
Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $4,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (56%), Religion (24%), Arts & Culture (17%).
Who are Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Artis-Naples Inc ($75k), Arborvitae Inc ($2k), Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (Usa) ($2k).
Does Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust based?
Ray J & Leila M Lynch Charitable Trust is based in MI.

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 27 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.

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