· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - DELAHANTY FAMILY ENDOWMENT FOR EXCELLENCE | $1,000 |
| KIDSMATTER | $1,000 |
| NOTRE DAME CLUB OF GREATER SARASOTA | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- SBSusan B Anthony List Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +100%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
How this is measured
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donegal Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donegal Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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