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Thomas D Lynch Family Foundation Lynch at a glance

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Thomas D Lynch Family Foundation Lynch

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Arts & Culture$17kCrime & Legal$4kPublic Benefit$4kSocial Science$3kHealth$2kHuman Services$2kEducation$2kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$16,578
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BARNESVILLE STATE THEATER COMPANY$16,578
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 13%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.
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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14k · 6 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +79% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$14k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+79%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Public BenefitArts & CultureCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • PL
    Pacific Legal Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4k · revenue +136%
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +71%
  • NP
    NEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    4× · 2018–2021 · $3k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • TS
    THREE SQUARE
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -23%
  • LV
    LAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +79%
  • BA
    BARNESVILLE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +157%
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
Nevada Bar Foundation

The nevada bar foundation (the foundation) was formed to promote/provide law related education to members of the public, develop/improve legal education, engage in research in the field of law and legal practice, assist qualified…

Crime & Legal
2
Fair Government Nevada

To promote fair government practices and for all other legal purposes

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3
Nevada Land Trust

To preserve and protect the special places and open spaces of nevada for future generations.

—
4
Barnesville Hospital Foundation

The barnesville hospital foundation's mission is to work to guarantee that barnesville hospital has sufficient resources to improve the community's health through the efficient provision, coordination, and integration of quality health…

—
5
Barnstable Land Trust Inc

Preservation of undeveloped land in the town of barnstable and nearby areas

Environment
6
Barnes Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Barrington Land Conservation Trust Inc

The purpose of the barrington land conservation trust is to protect and steward our local natural, scenic historic open spaces. blct will advocate on behalf of protection for these lands and work to educate the public about these resources.

—
8
American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada Foundation Inc

The american civil liberties union of nevada foundation inc serves to protect adn defend the civil liberties of all persons in nevada as provided by the united states constitution and bill of rights.

—
9
West Virginia Bar Foundation Inc

Improve the administration of justice and the provision of legal services for west virginia's citizens.

Crime & Legal
10
Nevada Veterans Memorial Plaza

To honor and preserve the legacy of our fallen brothers and sisters who have given their life in service to our country since nevada became a state in 1864

Arts & Culture
11
Barre Opera House Inc

The mission of the barre opera house inc. is to restore, preserve and operate the historic barre opera house as a center for the performing arts serving the entire central vermont community.

Arts & Culture
12
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Judicial Watch Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pacific Legal Foundation. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BARNESVILLE STATE THEATER COMPANY: $16,578 · Arts & CultureBARNESVILLE STATE THEATER COMPANYNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $3,000 · OtherNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INST…SALVATION ARMY: $2,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYBARNESVILLE HOSPITAL FD: $2,000 · OtherBARNESVILLE HOSPITAL FDBARNESVILLE AREA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherBARNESVILLE AREA EDUCATION …FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTIONSGRANTS: $600 · OtherFOUNDATION CONTRIBUTIONSGRA…Pacific Legal Foundation: $3,600 · Crime & LegalPacific Leg…CATO INSTITUTE: $3,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTIT…JUDICIAL WATCH INC: $500 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WA…THREE SQUARE: $1,000 · Food & NutritionLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 · Human ServicesBARNESVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $650 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$16,578Other$8,600Crime & Legal$3,600Public Benefit$3,500Food & Nutrition$1,000Human Services$1,000Community Improvement$650

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 budgetBARNESVILLE STATE THEATER COMPANY: $16,578 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation: $3,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEVADA POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE SQUARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAS VEGAS RESCUE MISSION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Thomas D Lynch Family Foundation Lynch funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Thomas D Lynch Family Foundation Lynch. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 12 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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