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Donnelly Family Foundation Corp

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$104k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$1.7MHealth$125kYouth Development$115kArts & Culture$75kFood & Nutrition$15kReligion$15kPhilanthropy$10kRecreation & Sports$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO$25,000
NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$20,000
REGINA DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
ST PATRICK$5,000
MARION UNIVERSITY$5,000
PEAK$5,000
CARE FOR REAL$5,000
CONGAREE FOUNDATION$2,500
SEEDS OF PEACE$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CARE FOR REAL: $5k → 14%CARE FOR REAL: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
NY
IA
IN
OH
NC
SC
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 9 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
6

Total granted

$2.0M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+21%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionHealthOther

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

  • John Carroll University
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +16%
  • TA
    THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +12%
  • CF
    Congaree Foundation
    3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES
    one grant, 2024 · $10k
  • F
    FEEDNC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -46%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
2
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
3
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
4
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
5
Siena University

Siena university is a learning community advancing the ideals of a liberal arts education, rooted in its identity as a franciscan and catholic institution. as a learning community, siena is committed to a student-centered education…

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
8
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care for Real and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

John Carroll University — $1,501,000 · EducationJohn Carroll UniversityTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $75,000 · Education+1 more — $5,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient — $122,000 · OtherIndividual grant rec…NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE — $120,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN SCHOOL …REGINA DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherREGINA DOMINICAN HIG…EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherEVANS SCHOLARS FOUND…ST PATRICK — $15,000 · Other+4 more — $18,700 · OtherHorizons for Youth — $115,000 · Youth DevelopmentCongaree Foundation — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentCARE FOR REAL — $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 · Human ServicesFEEDNC — $5,000 · Food & NutritionAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 · HealthSEEDS OF PEACE INC — $1,000 · International
Education$1,581,000Other$370,700Youth Development$122,500Human Services$12,500Food & Nutrition$5,000Health$5,000International$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJohn Carroll University — $1,501,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetHorizons for Youth — $115,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARE FOR REAL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCongaree Foundation — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDNC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarian University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUFFTON SELF HELP INC — $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 John Carroll University
  • Who funds Horizons for Youth
  • Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
  • Who funds CARE FOR REAL
  • Who funds Congaree Foundation
  • Who funds FEEDNC
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds Marian University
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC
  • Who funds SEEDS OF PEACE 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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY12.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Donnelly Family Foundation Corp 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Donnelly Family Foundation Corp?

    Find your warmest path to Donnelly Family Foundation Corp through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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