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Donovan Family Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| XAVERIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHEVERUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SAMARITANS INC | $25,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FRANCIS OUIMET CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $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 (FY18–23, $150k) 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC7× · 2018–2025 · $182k · revenue +13%- IYINDIANA YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +29%
SAMARITANS INC7× · 2018–2025 · $80k · revenue +210%
Funded once
- SSSCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAMEone grant, 2018 · $100k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
See schedule othe marine corps scholarship foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. founded in 1962, the marine corps scholarship foundation provides access to education for…
The sarnoff cardiovascular research foundation is dedicated to cultivating the next generation of physician-leaders in cardiovascular medicine by funding and supporting medical students and physicians engaged in transformative research.
The mission of the daniel murphy scholarship fund is to give high school scholarship assistance and educational support to chicago students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. the fund seeks to make a life-altering difference in…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Scholarships for medical students
Support of miami university
The purpose of this corporation is to perform the charitable functions of and carry out the charitable purposes of charles r. drew university of medicine and science (cdu), a california nonprofit public benefit corporation. this…
Catholic memorial school foundation supports catholic memorial school (west roxbury, ma) by providing financial support for the school's physical plant, programs, operations and tuition assistance.
With a purpose of supporting and sustaining the scholarship programs of the basic fund, and guided by the basic fund scholarship foundation's board of directors, the foundation will strategically deploy funds raised into carefully managed…
To provide scholorships and contributions in support of massachusetts maritime academy.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Schools Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Michael Duke Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 31 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 BREAD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INDIANA YOUTH SERVICES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Michael Duke Foundation ↗
- Who funds MONTROSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Medical Research Foundation 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: The Flatley Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Donovan Family Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.
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