Washington · Nonprofit
LYNCHPIN
LYNCHPIN (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,436 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $131k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $164k
- Net assets
- $112k
What Lynchpin does
Mission
Empowering teens and their families to achieve social success.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Social groups: Lynchpin is a local non-profit social learning community for students with autism and their families, located in yakima, wa. We group students with others who share their similar interests. We find this brings an instant trust and mutual respect, providing the perfect foundation to build social skills. Our curriculum is written and presented each week, with the ability to flex with the groups' comprehension and comfort level. Students have a weekly 60 minute session with the social educator, followed by supervised free time. Parents then enter the classroom where the social educator reviews the lesson and gives practical feedback and problem solving. Families share their everyday challenges and feel supported by others who truly understand the magnitude of their everyday world. They are also provided with a handout of the weeks lesson to be shared with additional family members and educators. We're currently offering 4 social groups and serving 50+ students.
$0 spentFriday nights teen nights and saturday drop-in programming due to the pandemic we've had to put our friday night teen nights and saturday drop-in programming on hold. We're expanding out services as the pandemic allows, while keeping the safety of our families and employees our highest priority. As a result, we hold friday night nerf league, dungeons & dragons and minecraft society to provide a safe environment for our students to practice their social skills and join others who share their similar interests. Our drop-in summer programming provides ping-pong, table top games, chess, and dungeons & dragons. Students are relaxed and welcome to be their authentic selves and thrive in this nurturing environment. We're serving 75 students every week.
$0 spentMentoring: typically developing peer mentors. Lynchpin believes that students learn social skills not just through direct teaching, but by being exposed to others who are modeling positive social interactions. Studies have shown that students can improve their social skills by 50% just by being exposed to typically developing peer mentors. We strive for a 1:1 ratio during our drop-in programs at Lynchpin as well as having them sprinkled throughout the center. Not only is this a great opportunity for high school and college students to fulfill their community service/volunteer requirements, they're also connecting with students and gaining a new prospective to a world unlike their own. We currently have 10+ students volunteering.
$0 spent
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $78k to $215k (+175%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of LYNCHPIN’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $7k → $31k.
6 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of LYNCHPIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
LYNCHPIN leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund LYNCHPIN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2022 99% · 2023 80% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of LYNCHPIN's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $164k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
LYNCHPIN's revenue fell 17% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LYNCHPIN: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LYNCHPIN?
- LYNCHPIN (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $164,436 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($115,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LYNCHPIN have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $164,436 in grants to LYNCHPIN, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LYNCHPIN?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LYNCHPIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing