· Private foundation
Donegal Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLOWS ACADEMY | $22,000 |
| KNOXVILLE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $15,300 |
| NAPERVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | $15,000 |
| ST MARY'S STAR OF THE SEA | $5,200 |
| ST RAPHAEL CATHOLIC CHURCH | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S RESIDENCE | $4,000 |
| KIDSMATTER | $1,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - DELAHANTY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FOR EXCELLENCE | $1,000 |
| NOTRE DAME CLUB OF GREATER SARASOTA | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CCCOVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $70k · revenue +45%
- SPST PATRICK'S RESIDENCE8× · 2017–2024 · $69k · revenue +37%
- NCNAPERVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY5× · 2020–2024 · $40k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SPST PETER PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $9k
- SPST PETER & PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $7k
- SMST MARY STAR OF THE SEAone grant, 2018 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Christian education preK-12
We consider ourselves a miracle institution full of inspiration and absolute faith in Gods hands. We do so daily in teaching our students, interacting with our diverse parent body and our location in Chicago which makes us ever more…
Our mission is to provide a supportive Christian education for students who may benefit from personalized attention as they work toward a high school diploma while developing tools for self-sufficiency and a Christian life ethic.
To promote healing and wholeness through professional counseling, consultation and education from a Christian perspective
The mission is to provide a biblically based classical college preparatory education that inspires a passion for excellence a heart of grace and the character of Christ.
North star exists so that students are anchored in the hope of the gospel; equipped by the classical method, prepared to lead and live wisely.
Provides Private Christian Education from Kindergarten through Grade 12.
Cedille Chicago, NFP is devoted to the activity of producing and marketing recordings of classical music by Chicago-area musicians and composers.
Covenant Christian School (CCS) is committed to the academic, spiritual, physical, and social growth of our children in a Christ-centered environment. Continued on Schedule O Covenant Christian School cultivates a distinctive generation…
Built on a foundation of Christian faith, Oakbrook Preparatory School educates students to be independent learners in a changing world.
Education preschool-12th grade, religious, general
Private Christian School Grades K - 12
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant Classical School and the most unlike its peers is Christ Child Society of Sarasota Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds COVENANT CLASSICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST PATRICK'S RESIDENCE ↗
- Who funds NAPERVILLE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Willows Academy ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Interfaith Counseling Center ↗
- Who funds Susan B Anthony List Inc ↗
- Who funds Naperville Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds CENTURY WALK CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHILD SOCIETY OF SARASOTA INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Dupage Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Donegal Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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