The Boston Children’s Museum, the second oldest children’s museum in the United States, opens the Peter and Carolyn Lynch Early Learning Gallery. Created in partnership with innovators at MIT, the learning center houses the museum’s first space designed specifically for young children ages 0-3 to spark exploration and creativity.

The Lynch Foundation provides seed funding for an innovative solar energy program, The African Photovoltaic Project, which brings electricity and pure water to Fugar, Nigeria. The installations generate electricity for multiple uses in schools, clinics, and café settings, including water purification, educational programming, and reliable communication. The project increases safety and provides educational opportunities for …

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After the Massachusetts Legislature approves the Early Education For All Act, the Trustees recognize a significant opportunity for the Archdiocese of Boston Catholic Schools to increase their enrollment and serve more families in need. The Lynch Foundation helps create a voucher program providing subsidies for low-income families to access high-quality early education programs.

The Institute of Contemporary Art, the first new museum built in Boston in over a century, received a capital investment from The Lynch Foundation. Trustees felt a commitment to support such a new and exciting project on the waterfront that expanded the ICA’s audience tenfold and also served as a catalyst for contemporary art in …

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The Lynch Foundation funds an innovative pilot grant to develop and implement the Special Olympics Young Athletes Program, enabling individuals as young as 2 to participate in sports play programming. The Young Athletes Program reduced the age limit from 8 to 2, increasing access and ability to serve more than five million athletes today.

The Lynch Foundation provides capital support to purchase land and construct a new facility for the Marblehead/Swampscott YMCA. The new Lynch/van Otterloo facility is one of the largest non-profit organizations on the North Shore, growing from 3,000 to 15,000 members and providing over 3,500 subsidies so local individuals and families can access the YMCA’s programming.

The Trustees’ strong belief in RAW Art Works’ mission approve funding for RAW’s capital campaign to expand from their original one-room studio to purchasing and renovating the entire building, allowing them to serve over 550 youths annually.

The Lynch Foundation provides seed funding for the creation of the first new medical department at Harvard Medical School in decades, the Department of System’s Biology. This study of systems of biological components has become central to all areas of biology and medicine. Today, HMS’s Systems Biology Department is the world leader training in this …

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With more than 25% of Boston teens skateboarders, and not one single safe or legal place to practice and perform their sport, the Foundation’s initial grant was made at a critical time to the Charles River Conservatory to establish the largest skatepark in the Northeast.

The Lynch Foundation moves from their home office into office space located in Boston and hires a second employee.