· Private foundation
Donley Foundation-Ud Dtd 12-8-86
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
- $10k–50k6 grants · $172k
- $50k–250k84 grants · $12M
- $250k+17 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY | $2,043,100 |
| THE CHICAGO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,244,936 |
| THE CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,168,100 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,168,100 |
| US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST | $1,168,100 |
| CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,168,100 |
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND | $1,168,100 |
| YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,168,100 |
| YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,168,100 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,164,318 |
| YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,164,318 |
| VERMONT CHILDREN'S TRUST FOUNDATION | $575,641 |
| ALLENTOWN PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC | $280,008 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENNSYLVANIA | $259,108 |
| MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $259,108 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Donley Foundation-Ud Dtd 12-8-86’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
130 repeat relationships — 88 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 7 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.1M 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
- VCVermont Childrens Trust Foundation6× · 2019–2024 · $936k · revenue +12% · 42% of their budget
- MMMONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $428k · revenue +21%
- YCYORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PSPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PHILANTHROPIC FUNDone grant, 2019 · $50k
- CFChicago Foundation for Educationone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -83%
- SASALVATION ARMY NJ DIVISIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
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.
Children's services
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The team at kipp chicago schools is guided by a simple, yet powerful mission: to create a network of excellent schools in chicago that teach our students the character and academic skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond, and to…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Thrive chicago's mission is to prepare chicago's youth for a vibrant future by aligning efforts and outcomes from cradle to career.
To provide a holistic, multidisciplinary education to learners of all abilities
To equip all students in grades six through twelve with the academic skills, intellectual habits and character traits to succeed in the college of their choice, strenghten their communities and change the world.
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy
Tutoring chicago delivers the power of education through one-to-one tutoring.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The lincoln children's museum invites children to create, discover and learn through the power of play.
Children's advocates for change was organized to improve the lives of children in illinois by bringing about significant changes public policies and programs for children through research, policy analysis and advocacy, public education and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smart From the Start Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beaver Island Historical Society of Michigan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
138 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. 138 of the 174 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 YORK COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTSHIRE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF YORK COUNTY ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LITERACY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE ADVISING CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds ONWARD NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LET'S GROW KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY WORKS ↗
- Who funds READING IN MOTION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY FOR URBAN SCHOOL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF VERMONT ↗
- Who funds OPEN BOOKS LTD ↗
- Who funds GAP COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds VERMONT INSTITUTE OF NATURAL SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN EMPLOYED ↗
- Who funds ALLENTOWN PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YORK COUNTY LIBRARY SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds CHANGING WORLDS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF OAK PARK ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE DUSABLE BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM AND EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds GADS HILL CENTER ↗
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: Ppl Foundation · United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Harry C Trexler Estate · The Donald B and Dorothy L Stabler Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · Air Products Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust
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 Donley Foundation-Ud Dtd 12-8-86 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.
- The Dream Program Inc — 100% of income from government
- Central Vermont Adult Basic Education Inc — 75% of income from government
- Vermont Humanities Council — 67% of income from government
- Mentor Vermont Inc — 58% of income from government
- The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Vermont Childrens Trust Foundation — 8% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
- Montshire Museum of Science Inc — 4% of income from government
- Inclusive Arts Vermont Inc — 0% of income from government
- Vermont Institute of Natural Science Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community Foundation — 0% of income from government
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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