Massachusetts · Private foundation
The Lynch Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $8.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 107
- Grants FY2024
- 102
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $512,576
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 113
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 11
- Total assets, FY2024
- $147M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Lynch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 24% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 105 | $7.8M | 23% |
| FY2023 | 102 | $6.9M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $8.5M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 113 | $9.2M | 34% |
| FY2020 | 87 | $7.9M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 100 | $7.5M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 85 | $8.2M | 47% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $7.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $7,480,203 | 7 | 11% |
| Boston Schools Fund | $3,274,142 | 7 | 43% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $3,267,842 | 8 | 0% |
| Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawrence Massachusetts Inc | $1,257,366 | 6 | n/a |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $1,125,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Trustees of Reservations | $1,100,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Renew International | $1,075,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc | $1,009,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc | $760,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc | $688,768 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 173 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 114 recipients with no EIN on record ($18M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lynch Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 151 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Yawkey Foundation II · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund
How this is measured
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About The Lynch Foundation
- How much does The Lynch Foundation give?
- The Lynch Foundation reported 107 grants totaling $8,250,254 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 113 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Lynch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (51%), Human Services (8%), Arts & Culture (6%).
- Who are The Lynch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Catholic Schools Foundation Inc ($7.5M), Boston Schools Fund ($3.3M), Trustees of Boston College ($3.3M).
- Does The Lynch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lynch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lynch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Lynch Foundation based?
- The Lynch Foundation is based in MA.
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