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The Daniel Lynch Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Daniel Lynch Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$223k
Granted FY2021
22
Grants FY2021
11
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

International$248kFood & Nutrition$132kReligion$100kHealth$56kHuman Services$46kCivil Rights$37kEducation$31kPublic Safety & Disaster$24kOther$0
02FY2021 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k7 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $190k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$171k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FEED THE CHILDREN$30,000
FINCA INTERNATIONAL$20,000
FRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICES$15,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS' RESEARCH$15,000
BREAD FOR THE CITY INC$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
COMPASSION AND CHOICES$10,000
AMERICARES$10,000
TECHNO SERVE$10,000
COVENANT HOUSE$10,000
CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD$10,000
MERCY SHIPS$10,000
BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE INC$10,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$10,000
FRIENDS COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $2k → 8%COURT WATCH MONTGOMERY: $1k → 8%COURT WATCH MONTGOMERY: $1k → 8%COURT WATCH MONTGOMERY: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
DC
OK
TX
FL
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$664k · 57 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

57 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2021, 44 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
15

Total granted

$664k
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+35%

Still filing today

61%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
InternationalReligionFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FT
    FEED THE CHILDREN INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $39k · revenue +5%
  • FI
    FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +19%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $28k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • BC
    BAY CHRISTIAN FUND FOR POOR
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +106%
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.

1
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
3
Floresta Usa Incorporated

Plant with purpose, a christian nonprofit organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. we do this through: - watershed restoration & regenerative agriculture - savings…

International
4
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
5
Episcopal Relief and Development

Episcopal relief & development (the organization") is an affiliate of the domestic and foreign missionary society of the protestant episcopal church of the united states of america (the "society or "dfms"). (see schedule o)

Human Services
6
The Population Council Inc

We generate ideas, produce evidence, and design solutions to improve the lives of underserved populations around the world. we take a multidisciplinary, intergenerational, life-cycle approach that contributes to (see schedule o)four global…

International
7
Mercy Corps

Our mission is to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.

International
8
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
9
Project Hope - the People-to-People Health Foundation Inc

To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…

International
10
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
11
Guttmacher Institute Inc

The institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the united states and globally.

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12
World Hope International Inc

The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Vision Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Dc. 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

46 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 81 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
36/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERCY CORP: $25,000 · OtherMERCY CORPCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $24,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD: $21,000 · OtherCATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARDAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $16,000 · OtherFRANCISCAN MISSION SERVICES: $15,000 · OtherST JUDE CHILDRENS' RESEARCH: $15,000 · OtherCOVENANT HOUSE: $14,000 · Other+43 more: $244,100 · Other+43 moreFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $39,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INCFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,000 · InternationalFINCA INTERNATIONAL INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $28,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCBread for the World Institute: $27,000 · InternationalBread for the World InstituteTECHNOSERVE INC: $26,000 · InternationalTECHNOSERVE INCMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $23,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $16,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INCUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · InternationalMercy Ships International: $10,000 · InternationalThe Pax Christi Fund for Peace: $10,000 · International+3 more: $12,000 · InternationalBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $19,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $16,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $11,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionDOROTHY DAY CATHOLIC WORKER DC: $15,000 · ReligionFUTURECHURCH: $6,000 · ReligionVOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC: $4,000 · ReligionTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $4,000 · ReligionWOMEN'S ORDINATION CONFERENCE: $2,000 · ReligionHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $3,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 · HealthTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC: $11,000 · Education
Other$374,100International$272,000Food & Nutrition$56,000Religion$31,000Youth Development$17,000Health$12,000Education$11,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC: $39,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $27,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOROTHY DAY CATHOLIC WORKER DC: $15,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Climate Covenant: $12,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPax Christi USA: $12,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOME INC: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pax Christi Fund for Peace: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetJUBILEE HOUSING INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFCNL EDUCATION FUND: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSITAR ARTS CENTER: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURECHURCH: $6,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSojourners Inc: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRISONER VISITATION AND SUPPORT: $4,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVOICE OF THE FAITHFUL INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER PUBLISHING CO: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCourt Watch Montgomery Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetFred Hutchinson Cancer Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWashington Peace Center: $2,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPEACEPLAYERS INTERNATIONAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S ORDINATION CONFERENCE: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMichael's House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 FEED THE CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
  • Who funds DOROTHY DAY CATHOLIC WORKER DC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Climate Covenant ↗
  • Who funds Pax Christi USA ↗
  • Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds SOME INC ↗
  • Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION & CHOICES ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
  • Who funds The Pax Christi Fund for Peace ↗
  • Who funds JUBILEE HOUSING INC ↗
  • Who funds FCNL EDUCATION FUND ↗

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.

Greater Washington Co…Sheila Reynolds Berne…The Chicago Community…ImpactassetsincJohn D and Catherine …Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · Sheila Reynolds Berner Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Impactassetsinc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 The Daniel Lynch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Daniel Lynch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Little Sisters of the Poor Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get 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 · 0–75%
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.

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 81 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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