California · Private foundation
William D Lynch Foundation For Children
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $23k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $395k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations William D Lynch Foundation For Children funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 6 | $23k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $15k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $9k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $11k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $64k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $136k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $239k | 74% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $169k | 68% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free to Thrive | $110,955 | 3 | 5% |
| Lincoln Tubman Foundation | $71,000 | 4 | 39% |
| Oregon Tech Foundation Inc | $47,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Saved in America | $43,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Casa De Amparo | $37,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Paving Great Futures | $28,200 | 3 | n/a |
| Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse | $27,500 | 2 | 0% |
| San Diego Police Foundation | $15,000 | 2 | 1% |
| 3strands Global Foundation | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Voice of San Diego | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 37 grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($387k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
William D Lynch Foundation For Children supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · David C Copley Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Henderson Foundation · Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties
How this is measured
Compare William D Lynch Foundation For Children with peer funders
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About William D Lynch Foundation For Children
- How much does William D Lynch Foundation For Children give?
- William D Lynch Foundation For Children reported 6 grants totaling $23,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does William D Lynch Foundation For Children fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (33%), Human Services (15%), Education (10%).
- Who are William D Lynch Foundation For Children's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Free to Thrive ($111k), Lincoln Tubman Foundation ($71k), Oregon Tech Foundation Inc ($48k).
- Does William D Lynch Foundation For Children fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does William D Lynch Foundation For Children accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as William D Lynch Foundation For Children?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.
- Where is William D Lynch Foundation For Children based?
- William D Lynch Foundation For Children is based in CA.
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