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John & Clara Dolan 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS SOCIETY HURRICAN | $40,000 |
| ELEVATE LIFE | $13,100 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST BENEDICTS | $5,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC CANCER CENTER | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF ST CATHERINE | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| BENILDE-ST MARGARETS | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ST THOMAS | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| HOPE FOR UGANDA | $4,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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.
41 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- ELElevate Life6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +23%
- UOUniversity of St Thomas6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +34%
- HFHOPE FOR UGANDA INC6× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- DODIOCESE OF BEAUMONTone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SJST JOHN VIANNEYone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SCST CATHERINE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +5%
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.
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…
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.
We exist to serve our patients with compassionate health care of the highest quality.
University of the sciences prepares students to become leaders, innovators, and skilled practitioners in the sciences, the health professions, and related disciplines. we deliver excellence in teaching, research, and service through a safe…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.
We, mercy clinics and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. mercy clinics is a member of trinity health.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Phoenix Children's Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 48 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 Elevate Life ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR UGANDA INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF SAINT BENEDICT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC ELDERCARE ↗
- Who funds Marquette University ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INTERCONGREGATION COMMUNITIES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Phoenix Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds CONVOY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER 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: Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 John & Clara Dolan 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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