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The John Lynch Foundation Inc

The john lynch foundation is committed to developing leaders by encouraging dreams, providing programs that assist and motivate, and recognizing achievement and excellence.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Education$205kRecreation & Sports$6k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $101,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $106,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$6,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER$12,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$6,000
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY$6,000
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY$6,000
COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES$6,000
UCLA$6,000
LAFAYETTE COLLEGE$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO$6,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$6,000
CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY$6,000
METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA$6,000
GONZAGA UNIVERSITY$6,000
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY PUEBLO$6,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%ST OLAF COLLEGE: $6k → 11%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $6k → 11%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UCLA: $6k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $9k → 17%KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 20%UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $6k → 8%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $6k → 7%FORT LEWIS COLLEGE: $6k → 12%METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY PUEBLO: $6k → 15%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 16%LAFAYETTE COLLEGE: $6k → 11%CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $6k → 8%UCLA: $6k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $6k → 22%HILLSBOROUGH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA: $6k → 17%COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES: $6k → 7%METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%LEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $6k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
MA
PA
CA
UT
CO
KS
AL
TX
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$153k · 11 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$153k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+32%

Still filing today

45%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • CORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +20%
  • MS
    METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +71%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • FL
    FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +32%
  • LU
    LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
DePauw University

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…

Education
4
Trustees of Clark University

Clark university's mission is to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative…

Education
5
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
University of Denver

The university of denver (du) is a higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees - the mission of the university of denver is to promote learning by engaging with students (continued on schedule o)in…

Education
9
La Salle University

See schedule o for complete mission statement.la salle is a lasallian catholic university committed to the principle that all knowledge is practical and empowering, filled with the capacity to transform lives. anchored in the living…

Education
10
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
11
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education
12
Furman University

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.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lafayette College and the most unlike its peers is Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc. 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

9 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO — $24,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADO — $18,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN COLORADOBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA — $15,000 · OtherBOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMACOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES — $12,000 · OtherCOLORADO SCHOOL OF MINESTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYCarnegie Mellon University — $12,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon UniversityTEJANO CENTER — $12,000 · OtherTEJANO CENTERREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $12,000 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIAKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · OtherFORT LEWIS COLLEGE — $6,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF UTAH — $6,000 · OtherCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $12,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITYMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · EducationMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENV…LAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $12,000 · EducationLAFAYETTE COLLEGETHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $11,828 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND S…Hillsborough Education Foundation Inc — $10,400 · EducationHillsborough Education Foundation IncST OLAF COLLEGE — $6,000 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGELEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $6,000 · EducationLEHIGH UNIVERSITY
Other$141,000Education$70,228

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAFAYETTE COLLEGE — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $11,828 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHillsborough Education Foundation Inc — $10,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The John Lynch Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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How do I get to The John Lynch Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The John Lynch Foundation Inc 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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