How much does The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain give?

The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain reported 40 grants totaling $1,246,602 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.

Who are The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cornell University ($2.2M), Connecticut College ($1.4M), Peninsula Family Service ($365k).

Does The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain 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 Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Hoefer Family Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.

The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain

The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain at a glance

· Private foundation

The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain

Q: What does The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain fund?

By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (75%), Human Services (7%), Arts & Culture (4%).

Q: Where is The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain based?

The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain is based in NY.

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.

$1.2M

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$364k

Largest

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.

Education$5.1MHuman Services$485kArts & Culture$268kHealth$265kYouth Development$265kReligion$139kAnimals$128kHousing & Shelter$75kOther$0

02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k11 grants · $46k
$10k–50k22 grants · $333k
$50k–250k6 grants · $503k
$250k+1 grant · $364k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$23M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CORNELL UNIVERSITY	$364,402
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE	$230,000
PETER WESTBROOK FOUNDATION	$65,000
PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE	$55,000
REGIS UNIVERSITY	$53,000
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY	$50,000
ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY	$50,000
CONVENT AND STUART HALL	$47,500
EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES	$30,000
SALISBURY SCHOOL	$20,000
RECTORY SCHOOL	$20,000
PET PARTNERS	$17,500
HARTWICK COLLEGE	$15,000
RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO	$15,000
ST MICHAEL PARISH	$15,000

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $440k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.8M · 39 repeat orgs$80k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.8M

$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+9%

Still filing today

85%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

Cornell University
6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +46%
CC
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE
6× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +22%
PF
PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE
6× · 2020–2025 · $365k · revenue +85%

Funded once

SS
SPIRE SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $10k
MS
MASTERS SCHOOL
one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +9%
CU
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -2%

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.

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

Pembroke Hill School

A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."

Education

The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education

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

Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education

Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education

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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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

Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rectory School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wender Weis Foundation for Children. 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

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/38

Grantees still filing

28/38

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$4,939,365Other$1,001,200Human Services$495,000Health$200,000Animals$122,500Environment$85,000Arts & Culture$65,000

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA19.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Hoefer Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Patti and Rusty Rueff Foundation · Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation · Greene Van Arsdale Foundation co KKR Accounting Services LLC · Atkinson Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma

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 Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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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