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Donovan Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k12 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL | $75,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY HOOVER INSTITUTION | $15,000 |
| GRANT TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| STATE POLICY NETWORK | $5,000 |
| TETON VALLEY SKIJOR CORPORATION | $5,000 |
| DANCERS WORKSHOP | $5,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $5,000 |
| TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| HILLSDALE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| GOOD SAMARITAN | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $250k · revenue +447%- TCTEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $180k · revenue +40%
- SPSTATE POLICY NETWORK4× · 2020–2023 · $25k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- YFYELLOWSTONE FOREVERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +68%
- TCTETON COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUEone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SJST JOHN'S HOSPITAL LIVING CENTERone grant, 2020 · $17k
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.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Wyofile is an independent, nonprofit news service focused on the people, places and policy of wyoming. recognizing the rapid decline in resources among traditional news outlets, wyofile offers in-depth coverage of complicated subjects and…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wyoming seminary inspires students to lead lives of integrity, purpose, and excellence by developing the critical skills and spirit of community necessary to succeed and serve in a global society.
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
The mission of the teton regional land trust is to conserve working farms and ranches, fish and wildlife habitat, and scenic open spaces in eastern idaho for this and future generations.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Cowboy state daily's mission is to provide high-quality local and statewide reporting on the issues that impact wyoming, featuring stories that capture wyoming's wonderful "small town with long streets" vibe.
The mission of the association is to inspire "deeper connection, better understanding, and enduring support for our public lands."
Utah foundation's mission is to produce objective, thorough and well- reasoned research and analysis that promotes the effective use of public resources, a thriving economy, a well-prepared workforce and a high quality of life for utahns.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yellowstone Forever and the most unlike its peers is Good Samaritan Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 GRAND TETON MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds STATE POLICY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds SILICON COULOIR ↗
- Who funds PESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Yellowstone Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds TETON VALLEY SKIJOR CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TETON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOOD SAMARITAN INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED VETERANS NATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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