· Private foundation
Mary J Donnelly Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k25 grants · $105k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH | $50,000 |
| ROSEMONT COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS | $20,000 |
| ST MARY MAGDELENE PARISH | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $10,000 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| HOPE BORDER INSTIUTE | $10,000 |
| OAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CARLOW UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL CATHEDRAL PARISH | $10,000 |
| JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE | $10,000 |
| FADICA | $6,500 |
| CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA | $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, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
38 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- WCWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH5× · 2021–2025 · $210k · revenue +9%
- RCROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +195%
- CUCARLOW UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- MCMINISTRY CENTER OF ST MAGDALENE PARISHone grant, 2022 · $10k
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- DDDISCERNING DEACONSone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
The University of Mary exists to serve the religious, academic and cultural needs of the people in this region and beyond.(Continued on Schedule O)
Education
MISSION - TO celebrate life and serve with joy. Vision - to provide access to Catholic high schools and offer programs for higher education and career readiness for young women from the Chicago area.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
The International Catholic Jurists Forum (ICJF) was established to produce, compile, and share resources on fundamental human rights under attack in the regional and international human rights protection systems. It operates as a forum for…
As the charitable arm of the archdiocese of denver and inspired by god's love and compassion, catholic charities extends the healing ministry of jesus christ to the poor and those in need. catholic charities of the archdiocese of denver…
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Family Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Discerning Deacons. 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 54 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 53 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 WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
- Who funds CARLOW UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
- Who funds FUTURECHURCH ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
- Who funds NAZARETH PREP ↗
- Who funds NEW WAYS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE BORDER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MANOR CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY 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: The Pittsburgh Foundation · The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania · Upmc Group · Snee-Reinhardt Charitable Foundation · Kate M Kelley Foundation · Federated Investors Foundation Inc · Ryan Memorial Foundation · Massey Charitable Trust · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Richard King Mellon Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Fund · Eqt 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 Mary J Donnelly 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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