· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO | $25,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLARS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| REGINA DOMINICAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PEAK | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK | $5,000 |
| CARE FOR REAL | $5,000 |
| MARION UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CONGAREE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SEEDS OF PEACE | $1,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
John Carroll University4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +16%- TATHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +12%
- CFCongaree Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2024 · $10k
- FFEEDNCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -46%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Incone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 19 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 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 ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donnelly Family Foundation Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donnelly Family Foundation Corp. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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