· Private foundation
Mary and Daniel Dolan 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAKE FOREST COLLEGE | $103,750 |
| SHIRLEY RYAN ABILITYLAB | $50,000 |
| METROSQUASH | $49,000 |
| US SQUASH | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| JAKE OWEN FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| VNA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| EVANS SCHOLAR FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO BOTANIC GARDEN | $5,000 |
| US OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION | $2,098 |
| NORTH CHICAGO COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $1,500 |
| THE DURHAM MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $1,000 |
| HSS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Lake Forest College8× · 2018–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +73%- RIRehabilitation Institute of Chicago7× · 2018–2025 · $816k · revenue +41%
- VFVNA FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $72k · revenue +105% · 31% of their budget
Funded once
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CJCHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $10k
Teach for America Incone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -18%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Lake Forest Graduate School of Management's mission is to bring the real world to business education and leadership development.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
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…
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…
To advance the practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the institutions they serve.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Jake Owen Foundation. 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 51 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 63 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 Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ↗
- Who funds METROSQUASH NFP ↗
- Who funds VNA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds Jake Owen Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCHESTER FRIENDLY HOME ↗
- Who funds LAKE FOREST COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE DURHAM MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds North Chicago Community Partners ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN PLANNING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JEWISH UNITED FUND OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds WINGS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Ann & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE THANC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SHAKESPEARE THEATER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds DANIEL MURPHY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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: Keystone Charitable Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · United Way Worldwide · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · AbbVie Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Mary and Daniel Dolan 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.
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc — 4% 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.