New Hampshire · Private foundation
Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $313k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 68
- Grants FY2024
- 58
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 45 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 9% of the organizations Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 68 | $313k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $447k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $283k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 56 | $247k | 14% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $189k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 52 | $279k | 52% |
| FY2017 | 45 | $147k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lowell Catholic | $303,500 | 7 | n/a |
| Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc | $180,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust | $109,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Pioneer Valley Poetry Productions Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 93% |
| Mahoosuc Land Trust Inc | $49,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Church of the Good Shepherd | $47,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Initiative a Vermont Waldorf High School | $45,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Greenville Junction Depot Friends | $34,000 | 6 | 16% |
| Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc | $33,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Upper Valley Snow Sports Foundation | $27,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 65 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 68 recipients with no EIN on record ($603k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 Vermont Community Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Demoulas Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
How this is measured
Compare Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation
- How much does Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation give?
- Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation reported 68 grants totaling $313,375 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Arts & Culture (20%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lowell Catholic ($304k), Orchard Valley Waldorf School Inc ($180k), Lowell Parks & Conservation Trust ($109k).
- Does Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc, Fidelity Foundation.
- Where is Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation based?
- Joseph P Donahue Charitable Foundation is based in NH.
Play a game based on Joseph P Donahue’s filings →