· Private foundation
William D Lynch Foundation For Children
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE | $15,000 |
| DEBRA OF AMERICA | $2,500 |
| COMMON SENSE FOR OREGON FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| ACCESSITY | $1,000 |
| VOICE OF SAN DIEGO | $1,000 |
| BASIN BASKETBALL ACADEMY | $1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
26 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- LTLINCOLN TUBMAN FOUNDATION4× · 2019–2024 · $71k · revenue +107% · 39% of their budget
OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2019 · $48k · revenue +42%- CDCasa De Amparo3× · 2018–2020 · $38k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY INSTITUTEone grant, 2017 · $114k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $22k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
DeliverFund disrupts global human trafficking markets by combining uniquely qualified personnel with the best technologies and then leveraging them in new ways to reach and rescue victims of human trafficking.
Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.
To support and cultivate sustainable employment opportunities for San Diego County residents contributing to a prosperous local economy.
The organization's mission is to promote the collective voice of a diverse coalition of organizations and individuals working to eliminate all forms of domestic violence. as an advocate for sociate change, we advance our mission by…
Institute to Combat Trafficking exists to seek justice for victims of trafficking and to ensure accountability for traffickers.
To end modern slavery through education, advocacy, and empowering survivors of human trafficking.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Dreams for Change's mission is to respond to the needs of San Diegans by creating innovative and cost-effective programs to empower and stabilize the lives of under-served families and individuals.
Built to support survivors of sexual assault stalking and domestic violence in innovative ways The Thriving Initiative is a 501C3 nonprofit that teaches coping strategies responses to triggers & resiliency through free healing & recovery…
The mission of crisis house is to respond immediately to stop the cycle of domestic violence and homelessness and to connect families and individuals to crucial resources that empower them to renew their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Love Song Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 77 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FREE TO THRIVE ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN TUBMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OREGON TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVED IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Casa De Amparo ↗
- Who funds PAVING GREAT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds THEATER & ARTS FOUNDATION OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY DBA LA JOLLA PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CONCERN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVE SONG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAVELL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Council on Literacy ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DOORS TO FREEDOM ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO REGIONAL CHAMBER FOUNDATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization William D Lynch Foundation For Children funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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