New York · Private foundation
The Lynton Foundation
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.
- $98k
- Granted FY2023
- 9
- Grants FY2023
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
71% of The Lynton Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Trustees Of Columbia University In The City Of New York, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Lynton Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $98k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2023
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 42
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Lynton Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 25% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 8 | $94k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $550k | 69% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $1.4M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $2.1M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Harlem Tutorial Program Inc | $801,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Brookings Institution | $420,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Rand Corporation | $400,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Museum Associates | $400,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vera Institute of Justice Inc | $181,668 | 2 | 0% |
| Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation | $175,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Hand in Hand Daniel Boulud Foundation | $175,000 | 2 | 76% |
| The Howard University | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Osborne Association Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 62 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Lynton Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The ZelnickBelzberg Charitable Trust · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Warburg Pincus Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation
How this is measured
About The Lynton Foundation
- How much does The Lynton Foundation give?
- The Lynton Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $98,041 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 42 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does The Lynton Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Social Science (16%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are The Lynton Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: East Harlem Tutorial Program Inc ($801k), The Brookings Institution ($420k), The Rand Corporation ($400k).
- Does The Lynton Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Lynton Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Lynton Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is The Lynton Foundation based?
- The Lynton Foundation is based in NY.
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