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The Lynch Family Charitable Foundation John H Lynch

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$184k
Granted FY2022
28
Grants FY2022
5
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

56% of The Lynch Family Charitable Foundation John H Lynch’s FY2025 grant dollars went to New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Lynch Family Charitable Foundation John H Lynch named its own grantees at scale: 18 organizations, $184k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

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’20
18
’21
18
’22
14
’23
12
’24
14
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$582kEducation$148kArts & Culture$112kYouth Development$39kHuman Services$36kHealth$31kEnvironment$22kReligion$15kOther$0
02FY2022 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k23 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $117k
$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Granite United Way$67,000
New Hampshire Charitable Foundation$50,000
Currier Museum of Art$12,000
Mount Holyoke College$10,100
Boys & Girls Club of Concord$10,000
Chabad of Shrewsbury and UMASS Medical School Inc (UMass Medical School)$5,000
St Paul's School - ASP$5,000
Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity$5,000
New York Road Runners$4,290
St George Greek Orthodox Cathedral$2,500
Palace Theatre$2,500
Town of Hopkinton$1,500
Hopkinton High School$1,100
United States Fund for UNICEF$1,000
Concord Community Music School$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Webster House: $5k → 7%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

VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
CT
CO
TN
GA
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$418k · 26 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
19

Total granted

$418k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+56%

Still filing today

65%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +19%
  • CG
    Currier Gallery of Art
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +23%
  • PT
    PALACE THEATRE TRUST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +82%
  • WH
    WEBSTER HOUSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +68%
  • UO
    University of Massachusetts Medical School Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
New Hampshire Historical Society

To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.

Arts & Culture
2
Bank of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
Philanthropy
3
New Hampshire Children's Health Foundation
Health
4
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
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Southern New Hampshire Health System Inc

Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.

Health
7
New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits

The new hampshire center for nonprofits strengthens and gives voice to the state's nonprofit sector by providing leadership development programs, facilitating collaboration, and offering learning opportunities for nonprofit leaders, staff,…

Education
8
Home Health and Hospice Care

Home Health and Hospice Care provides trusted patient centered services that enhance each individual's independence and quality throughout life.

Health
9
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health

D-HH operates to establish, manage, govern, and fundraise for an integrated healthcare delivery System. To that end, D-HH is particularly focused to: - Manage the healthcare System to provide services to the public in the most…

Health
10
Windsor Hospital Corporation

Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.

Health
11
Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital

To improve the health and wellbeing of our community.

Health
12
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests; the most unlike its peers is Plymouth Rotary Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 72 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)
45/47
Grantees still filing
32/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $480,000 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable FoundationMark Stebbins Community Center: $25,000 · PhilanthropyGRANITE UNITED WAY: $102,000 · OtherGRANITE UNITED WAYCurrier Museum: $33,200 · OtherCurrier MuseumCurrier Gallery of Art: $25,000 · OtherCurrier Gallery of ArtUniversity of New Hampshire: $20,000 · OtherUniversity of New HampshireSt Paul's School - ASP: $20,000 · OtherSt Paul's School - ASPPOPE MEMORIAL SPCA OF CONCORD-MERRIMACK COUNTY: $12,600 · OtherCurrier Museum of Art: $12,000 · Other+42 more: $120,715 · Other+42 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $55,200 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $15,000 · EducationTrustees o…UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationST PAUL'S …+3 more: $2,100 · EducationPALACE THEATRE TRUST: $20,500 · Arts & CultureCONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $10,250 · Arts & CultureCAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,150 · Arts & CulturePLYMOUTH ROTARY FOUNDATION: $21,000 · Environment+3 more: $900 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $19,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEBSTER HOUSE: $5,000 · Human ServicesNew Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence: $3,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$505,000Other$345,515Education$97,300Arts & Culture$38,900Environment$21,900Youth Development$19,000Human Services$8,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation: $480,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY: $102,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $55,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCurrier Gallery of Art: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMark Stebbins Community Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLYMOUTH ROTARY FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetPALACE THEATRE TRUST: $20,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER: $19,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOPE MEMORIAL SPCA OF CONCORD-MERRIMACK COUNTY: $12,600 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL: $10,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Hospital Trust: $5,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWEBSTER HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $4,290 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPKINTON WOMANS CLUB: $1,100 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetMORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOBBY STEPHEN'S STPATRICKS DAY: $1,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRED RIVER THEATRES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Bridges House: $1,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORIC ASSOCIATION: $975 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAudubon Society of New Hampshire: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANITIES COUNCIL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LONDON BARN PLAYHOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Medical Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERBEND COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Hampshire Antiquarian Society DBA Hopkinton Historical Society: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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 New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Currier Gallery of Art ↗
  • Who funds Mark Stebbins Community Center ↗
  • Who funds PLYMOUTH ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PALACE THEATRE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds POPE MEMORIAL SPCA OF CONCORD-MERRIMACK COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SOUHEGAN VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Concord Hospital Trust ↗
  • Who funds Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
  • Who funds WEBSTER HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE COMMUNITY LOAN FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPKINTON WOMANS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds MORRIS ANIMAL FOUNDATION ↗

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cogswell Benevolent T…Lincoln Financial Fou…Samuel P Hunt Foundat…Arthur Jr Dobles & Ol…Madelaine G Vonweber …Mary Hitchcock Memori…Trust Uw Oleonda Jame…Arthur L Getz Charita…Td Charitable Foundat…Fidelity Foundation
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH53.2× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Samuel P Hunt Foundation · Arthur Jr Dobles & Olive G Dobles Crut · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital · Trust Uw Oleonda Jameson · Arthur L Getz Charitable Tr · Td Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 72 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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