· Private foundation
Edward and Rose Donnell 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k53 grants · $165k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood | $19,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,500 |
| Chicago Horticultural Society | $15,000 |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $12,000 |
| Trust for Public Lands | $12,000 |
| Conservation International | $10,000 |
| Kappa Sigma Scholarship Fund | $9,000 |
| Tennessee 4H | $8,000 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $7,000 |
| Nashville Opera | $6,000 |
| American Red Cross | $6,000 |
| Doctors without Borders | $5,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Learning Matters | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 23 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k 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
EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +28%
CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +64%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- CMCountry Music Hall of Fame and Museone grant, 2022 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- FOFRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +19%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To promote public health, safety, and welfare through the improvement of the quality and quantity of drinking water and the development and furtherance of understanding of the problems relating thereto.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 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. 77 of the 118 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 CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds BETTER GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds COUNTRY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING CENTER OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds PULL-TIGHT PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Writers Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Glencoe Historical Society ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN PARKS INC ↗
- Who funds HARPETH CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds OPENLANDS ↗
- Who funds NASHVILLE ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GREEN BAY TRAIL ↗
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: Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Wade-Buntin Family Foundation · Memorial Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Pam Lewis Foundation · Dorothy Cate and Thomas F Frist Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Southeast Community Capital Corporation D/B/A Pathway Lending · The Danner Foundation · Enchiridion Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family 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 Edward and Rose Donnell 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.