· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITANS INC | $25,000 |
| ST MARKS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| FRANCIS OUIMET CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| XAVERIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CHEVERUS CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- TDTHE DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +11%
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.
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.
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 31 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 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 DOUG FLUTIE JR FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Michael Duke Foundation ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MONTROSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Childrens Medical Research Foundation 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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Donovan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Donovan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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