Donald D Lynch Family Foundation
ActivePhilanthropy & Voluntarism
FINDLAY, OH4194258594
About Donald D Lynch Family Foundation
The Donald D. Lynch Family Foundation appears to be a strongly Catholic, faith-formation-driven funder that concentrates a large share of its giving on religious orders, clergy formation, and Catholic institutions with an evangelization or discipleship mission. It also supports a smaller set of international Catholic social-service and mission projects, especially in places like India, Haiti, Vietnam, Togo, and Ukraine. The repeated grants to the same organizations suggest a relationship-based strategy centered on long-term partnerships rather than broad, one-time program funding.
Focus Areas
Catholic Religious Order FormationPriestly and Lay Evangelization TrainingCatholic Media and Intellectual FormationMissionary Outreach in Developing CountriesCatholic Prison and Pastoral MinistryInternational Catholic Humanitarian Aid
Giving Approach
Highly concentrated giving with many repeat grantees and multi-grant support to core Catholic partners; funding is often tied to formation initiatives, suggesting larger relationship-based commitments rather than widely distributed small grants.
Notable grantees: Acton Institute, Order of Friars Minor - Special Formation Initiative, Archdiocese for Military Services, Sisters of Life, The Coming Home Network International
About Donald D Lynch Family Foundation
The Donald D Lynch Family Foundation has directed its recent philanthropy to a single local beneficiary in Findlay, with two very large grants totaling more than $4 million and both recorded as "VARIOUS" purpose support. That pattern points to a relationship-driven funder making flexible, high-value awards rather than a broad portfolio of smaller grants. In the latest filing year, the foundation awarded $2,445,972 to "See Attached" in 2024, following a $1,559,666 grant to the same recipient in 2023. Those two awards make up the full recent grant record provided here. The foundation’s program description emphasizes unrestricted or mission-aligned grants to organizations that help individuals and families lead more humane, just, respectful, productive, and faith-filled lives, with primary emphasis on organizations spreading the Word of God through the teachings of the Catholic Church. That framing aligns with the concentrated pattern in the recent grants data: one local recipient, repeated support, and multi-purpose funding. The result is a profile of a family foundation that appears to use substantial grants to back a trusted institution or project in its own community.
What Donald D Lynch Family Foundation Funds
The foundation’s stated grantmaking centers on faith-based programs, Catholic ministry, family support, human services, and religious education. Its program language is explicit about supporting organizations that help individuals and families lead more humane, just, respectful, productive, and faith-filled lives, with primary emphasis on spreading the Word of God through the teachings of the Catholic Church. That purpose statement is consistent with the recent grants pattern. In 2024, Donald D Lynch Family Foundation gave $2,445,972 to "See Attached" for "VARIOUS" purposes. In 2023, it gave $1,559,666 to the same recipient for "VARIOUS" purposes. The available record therefore shows flexible support rather than narrowly restricted project funding, with the mission focus expressed at the program level and the grant purposes recorded broadly.
How Donald D Lynch Family Foundation Gives
Grant size is consistently large: the 25th percentile is $1,781,242, the median is $2,002,819, and the 75th percentile is $2,224,396. The recent record shows just two grants, both to the same recipient, which suggests concentrated, repeat funding rather than a dispersed grant strategy. The foundation is structured as a family foundation, does not fund individuals, and does not make program-related investments. It also does not accept unsolicited applications, so its giving appears to be relationship-based rather than open application-driven.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$3.2M
Total Assets
$52.1M
Total Revenue
$9.7M
Total Expenses
$3.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $20K, with a median of $14K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$14K
75th Percentile
$20K
Geographic Reach
National36 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
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