How much does Richard V Lynch Family Foundation give?

Richard V Lynch Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $17,045 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Richard V Lynch Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (24%), Food & Nutrition (15%), Education (15%).

Who are Richard V Lynch Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer ($40k), St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc ($21k), Loyola Academy ($20k).

Does Richard V Lynch Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Richard V Lynch Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Richard V Lynch Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include AbbVie Foundation, Arthur J Gallagher Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.

Where is Richard V Lynch Family Foundation based?

Richard V Lynch Family Foundation is based in IL.

Richard V Lynch Family Foundation

Richard V Lynch Family Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Richard V Lynch Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$10k

Largest

01What it funds

0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$64kFood & Nutrition$40kEducation$39kHealth$28kArts & Culture$25kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$16kAnimals$11kOther$0

02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k16 grants · $7k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$422k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
St Francis Xavier HSO	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
St Vincent de Paul Seminary	$1,000
GOLF Scholarship Fund	$1,000
Habitat for Humanity Collier County	$500
St Norbert Church	$500
Defenders of Wildlife	$500
Incarnate Word Academy	$500
National Wildlife Federation	$500
Misercordia	$300
MD Anderson Cancer Center	$250
Sister Paulanne's Needy Family Fund	$250
Tunnel to Towers Foundation	$250
Muscular Dystrophy Association	$210
St Patrick Catholic Church	$100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $600) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$215k · 33 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$215k

$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%

+24%

Still filing today

48%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
3× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +145%
HI
HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO
5× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +45%
BS
Big Shoulders Fund
3× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +67%

Funded once

LA
LOYOLA ACADEMY
one grant, 2024 · $20k
KC
Kohl's Childrens' Museum
one grant, 2018 · $3k
NM
National MS Society
one grant, 2017 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health

World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment

Denver Zoological Foundation

Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.

Animals

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

SRAlab is dedicated to providing the best patient outcomes through the highest-quality clinical care, translational research, scientific discovery and education.

Health

American Humane Association

Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…

Animals

American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture

Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit

New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health

Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education

Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chicago Horticultural Society; the most unlike its peers is Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 60 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

29/29

Grantees still filing

21/29

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$188,936Education$35,700Health$23,510Animals$10,200Arts & Culture$4,000Recreation & Sports$3,000Environment$1,556

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.

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.

AbbVie FoundationIL16.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: AbbVie Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Richard V Lynch Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Richard V Lynch Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home