· Private foundation
Donna & Harry B McDonald Charitable Tr
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $93k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL INC | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $30,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $20,000 |
| WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER | $15,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF COLUMBUS OHIO | $15,000 |
| NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| KCNA2 EPILEPSY INC | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $15,000 |
| ST ANDREWS ABBEY | $15,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $15,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC | $15,000 |
| PURCELL MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $253k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
56 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- WSWEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +14%
- HOHOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $65k · revenue +27%
- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- TATHE ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION CLEVELANDone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MFMILLER FAMILY HEART AND VASCULARone grant, 2022 · $10k
- OLOUR LADY OF MT CARMELone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
Patients of hospice of central ohio receive compassionate, individualized end-of-life care. their desires guide the physical, emotional, and spiritual care support we provide. members of our community, patient's families, children, and…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
The mission of hospice is to provide medical care, nursing care, pain relief, and emotional and spiritual support services to terminally ill patients and their families.
The lafayette general foundation was created to support lafayette general health (lgh), acadiana's only community-owned, nonprofit health system. we exist to help fulfill lgh's mission, to restore, maintain, and improve health. our role is…
See schedule oto provide older adults with caring and quality services toward enhancement of physical, mental and spiritual well-being consistent with the christian gospel. the organization is dedicated to living our mission and keeping…
The hospice of dayton, inc. is committed to making quality hospice care available and accessible to terminally ill persons and their families, regardless of ability to pay, and in a manner consistent with the highest hospice standards. our…
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of the Western Reserve Inc and the most unlike its peers is KCNA2 Epilepsy Inc. 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 51 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 90 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 WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE WESTERN RESERVE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Home for the Aged of Little Sisters of the Poor ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR SACRED HEART HOME ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOMELESS FAMILIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds KCNA2 EPILEPSY INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER ARLINGTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Unverferth House Inc ↗
- Who funds GO2 For Lung Cancer ↗
- Who funds ROCK IT OUT INC ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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: Columbus Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · The O'Neill Brothers Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · Thomas C&Sandra S Sullivan Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation · Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation · Giant Eagle Foundation · Harry C Moores 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 Donna & Harry B McDonald Charitable Tr 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.