North Carolina · Private foundation
Donahue Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $651k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,750
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $520,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 72
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Donahue Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $651k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $473k | 46% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $581k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 72 | $469k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $232k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 51 | $214k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $253k | 26% |
| FY2017 | 37 | $175k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Christian Foundation Inc | $1,056,000 | 4 | 9% |
| The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc | $180,805 | 6 | 0% |
| Education Equals Hope | $176,359 | 6 | 7% |
| African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries of Texas | $125,982 | 4 | 14% |
| Braveworks | $125,676 | 4 | 7% |
| Mesa Global | $113,650 | 8 | n/a |
| The Gathering | $86,050 | 6 | 2% |
| Forest Hill Church | $45,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Compassion International Incorporated | $44,191 | 6 | 0% |
| Women Doing Well Inc | $37,500 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 90 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 67 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donahue Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Perper Family Foundation · Albemarle Foundation · Servant Foundation · Dalton-Brand Foundation Inc · The Marc & Mattye Silverman Family Foundation · Truist Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital
How this is measured
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About Donahue Charitable Foundation
- How much does Donahue Charitable Foundation give?
- Donahue Charitable Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $651,484 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 72 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Donahue Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Education (12%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Donahue Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: National Christian Foundation Inc ($1.1M), The Foundation Fighting Blindness Inc ($181k), Education Equals Hope ($176k).
- Does Donahue Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Donahue Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Donahue Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation for the Carolinas, United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Donahue Charitable Foundation based?
- Donahue Charitable Foundation is based in NC.
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