North Carolina · Nonprofit
THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION
THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,978,133 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($3,776,393). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $21M
What The Lynnwood Foundation does
Mission
The Lynnwood Foundation, a nonprofit organization established in 1996, has a twofold mission: to preserve and care for duke mansion, a national historic site, and operate lee institute. We preserve duke mansion as a nonprofit historic inn, gardens and meeting place making it accessible to the community and showcasing its history. Lee institute builds and transforms community by strengthening nonprofits, empowering leaders and engaging people.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Duke mansion: the preservation and protection of duke mansion has continued with maintenance and capital investment of the house and grounds. Duke mansion showcases its history by being open to the community for all types of events and through permanent exhibits. The gardens are open nearly every day for visitors. It also provides its own annual programming free to the public including history lectures. During the pandemic, we did not provide our usual guided garden tours and an annual community-wide open house.
$4,842,794 spent$5,058,862 earned by the program88% of program spendingLee institute: lee institute serves and strengthens organizations and individuals who share our commitment to building great communities. Lee institute provided facilitation, civic engagement, consulting and leadership training to non-profits, governments and community groups locally, regionally and statewide.
$663,083 spent$213,765 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,505,877.
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 2021 to 2022, from $21M to $24M (+14%).
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 1% · 2021 12% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
19% of THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Peter Blair
President & CEO
Board chair
Rutherford Bryson Iii
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $431k → $672k.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION’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
THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 58% · 2019 92% · 2020 88% · 2021 46% · 2022 63% · 2023 72% — 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.
How long its funders stay
63% of THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
76% of THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION'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. Of the $1.4M that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION's revenue grew 37% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,127 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
73%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION?
- THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION (North Carolina) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,978,133 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($3,776,393). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $5,978,133 in grants to THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION?
- FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $3,776,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LYNNWOOD FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 27 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