She is the co-founder and chair emerita of Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Philanthropies, and founder of several other philanthropic initiatives.
[2] Her parents divorced at an early age and she was raised by her mother and stepfather, Harold Josey, who ran an investment company called H.I.
[3] After Charles died in 2000, Lynn led the foundation herself, becoming the first woman to lead a large Jewish philanthropic organization.
[4] Lynn Schusterman's giving is focused on the global Jewish community, Israel and her hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
"[8] Among the national Jewish organizations she supports are BBYO, Hillel, Moishe House, Birthright Israel, Repair the World, and Keshet.
[11] Schusterman has also been deeply involved in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect, both in Tulsa, OK, and in Jerusalem, where she helped to establish the Haruv Institute.
[17] Her advocacy was criticized by Orthodox writer Nathan Diament as "tramping on the religious liberty of Orthodox Jewish institutions that refuse to condone homosexual behavior.”[18] In June 2017, Schusterman was one of 65 signatories of a petition criticizing Benjamin Netanyahu’s government for canceling the Kotel compromise and advancing a controversial conversion bill.
[19] The next month she criticized the Israeli government's canceling of the Kotel compromise in a speech after receiving the Jerusalem Builder Award from Mayor Nir Barkat.
She donated about $5 million dollar to Floridians for Freedom, a group supporting Florida Amendment 4 to protect abortion access in the state.