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The Lynch Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
107
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$513k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$34MHuman Services$5.3MArts & Culture$3.7MYouth Development$3.3MInternational$2.7MPhilanthropy$2.7MEnvironment$2.4MHousing & Shelter$2.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k44 grants · $950k
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $4.4M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.9M
$50,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$147M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY$512,576
MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL$510,576
CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY$400,000
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$400,000
HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL$300,000
FAMILYAID BOSTON$250,000
ESPERANZA ACADEMY$250,000
ST MARY'S CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN$250,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$225,000
I2 LEARNING FOUNDATION$200,000
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE$200,000
PINE STREET INN$167,000
FATHER'S UPLIFT$150,000
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$150,000
CITIZENS HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION$150,000
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 (FY17–24, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAINE HIGHLANDS SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 15%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $172k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $110k → 16%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $275k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $101k → 16%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $125k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $85k → 16%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $25k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $85k → 16%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $25k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $85k → 16%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $25k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $25k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $25k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $25k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $200k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $50k → 16%HOPEWELL: $100k → 7%HOPEWELL: $100k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $250k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $167k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $167k → 16%HOPE AND COMFORT: $25k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT: $25k → 7%SITTERS FOR SCHOLARS: $10k → 16%FATHER'S UPLIFT: $155k → 16%FATHER'S UPLIFT: $150k → 16%FATHER'S UPLIFT: $150k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $125k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $125k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $125k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $125k → 16%UNCORNERED: $25k → 16%UNCORNERED: $25k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $107k → 16%THE YW BOSTON: $100k → 16%THE YW BOSTON: $100k → 16%YW BOSTON: $100k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $400k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $100k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $50k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $50k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $25k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $25k → 16%URBAN LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS: $25k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $25k → 16%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

ME
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$54M · 157 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

157 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2024, 76 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

157
106

Total granted

$54M
$8.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+10%

Still filing today

54%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHealthOther
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

  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +67%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +70%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    6× · 2018–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • CS
    CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONINNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $1.6M
  • ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $760k · revenue +10%
  • RK
    ROSE KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY
    one grant, 2018 · $650k
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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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
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
5
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
6
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
9
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
10
Up Education Network

The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…

Education
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum; the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. 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

159 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. 159 of the 292 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
155/159
Grantees still filing
101/159
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON: $1,778,716 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTONCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONINNER-CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $1,600,000 · OtherLAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,257,366 · OtherHARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL: $1,250,000 · OtherRENEW INTERNATIONAL: $1,075,000 · Other+123 more: $23,607,591 · Other+123 moreCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $7,480,203 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $3,274,142 · EducationBOSTON SCHOOLS FUNDTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $3,267,842 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE+31 more: $6,367,279 · Education+31 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $688,768 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $599,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INC: $550,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $550,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $500,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $455,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesUNION CAPITAL INC: $175,000 · Human Services+3 more: $260,933 · Human ServicesPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $1,125,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $580,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $300,381 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $200,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $105,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $371,000 · Arts & CultureFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,500,000 · Community ImprovementHomeStart Inc: $530,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $400,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $50,000 · Community ImprovementROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC: $760,000 · Recreation & SportsINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $525,951 · Recreation & SportsTHE BASEBALL INC: $276,300 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,100,000 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $170,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $160,000 · EnvironmentBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $125,000 · Environment
Other$30,568,673Education$20,389,466Human Services$4,493,701Arts & Culture$3,081,381Community Improvement$2,480,000Recreation & Sports$1,912,251Environment$1,555,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $7,480,203 over 7y, 11% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $3,274,142 over 7y, 43% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $3,267,842 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,500,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $1,125,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $1,100,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $1,009,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC: $760,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $688,768 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $650,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $599,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $580,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetUNCORNERED INC: $550,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $550,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC: $547,479 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $530,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $525,951 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $520,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC: $510,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION: $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $500,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC: $500,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgeti2 LEARNING FOUNDATION INC: $475,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $455,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetEDNAVIGATOR INC: $450,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $417,250 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $410,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $400,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SONTAG PRIZE IN URBAN EDUCATION INC: $400,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $400,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE INC: $400,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $327,500 over 3y, 13% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $325,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $300,381 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $300,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $276,300 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $255,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY: $250,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC: $235,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $215,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $200,000 over 3y, 1.8% 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 CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
  • Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR EARLY EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds i2 LEARNING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds EDNAVIGATOR INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Highland Street Conne…Yawkey Foundation IICummings Foundation G…Fidelity FoundationRiley Mabel Louise Tr…Barr FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…The Cabot Family Char…Bushrod H Campbell & …
Boston Foundation IncMA73× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
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no gov · 450%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Boston After School & Beyond Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Nashoba Learning Group Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Seton Residence Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Gosnold Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bay Path University: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Cambridge College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Achievement Network Ltd: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Historic Deerfield Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
45get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to The Lynch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Lynch Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 292 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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