· Private foundation
The Lynch Foundation
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Mark's Episcopal Church | $50,000 |
| St Luke Episcopal Church | $27,776 |
| The Blood & Tissue Center Foundation | $22,080 |
| The Montana Sevita Fund | $15,000 |
| Planned Parenthood of South Texas | $10,000 |
| San Antonio Book Festival | $10,000 |
| San Antonio River Foundation | $10,000 |
| San Antonio Museum of Art | $10,000 |
| McNay Art Museum | $9,200 |
| San Antonio Public Library Foundation | $5,000 |
| The DoSeum - Childrens Museum | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
6 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. 6 of the 11 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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: Elizabeth Huth Coates Charitable Foundation of 1992 · Jack and Doris Smothers and Bud Smothers Memorial Foundation · Amy Shelton McNutt Charitable Trust · Pryor Myra Stafford Char Tr F0030100 · Betty Stieren Kelso Foundation · Nancy Smith Hurd Foundation · Faye L & William L Cowden Charitable Foundation · The Brown Foundation Inc · San Antonio Area Foundation · John & Florence Newman Foundation · Braverman Family Charitable Foundation · Hixon Family Foundation
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
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