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Mary J Donnelly Foundation at a glance

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Mary J Donnelly Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$359kHuman Services$345kEducation$321kFood & Nutrition$80kInternational$52kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kCommunity Improvement$25kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k25 grants · $105k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE$10,000
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY$10,000
CARLOW UNIVERSITY$10,000
GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$10,000
OAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$10,000
ST PAUL CATHEDRAL PARISH$10,000
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES$10,000
HOPE BORDER INSTIUTE$10,000
FADICA$6,500
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $50k → 11%WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
KY
MD
AZ
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 38 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
8

Total granted

$1.2M
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+69%

Still filing today

50%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalReligionHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $210k · revenue +9%
  • RC
    ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +195%
  • CU
    CARLOW UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • MC
    MINISTRY CENTER OF ST MAGDALENE PARISH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • CC
    CENTRAL CATHOLIC HS
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
St Mary's University

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.

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2
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

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)

Education
3
Desales University

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.

Education
4
La Roche University

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.

Education
5
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

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6
University of Mary

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
7
Aquinas College

Education

Education
8
Franciscan Community Benefit Services

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.

Religion
9
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
10
International Catholic Jurists Forum Inc

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…

Religion
11
Catholic Charities & Community Serv of the Archdiocese of Denver

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…

Human Services
12
Providence College

See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holy Family Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS: $60,000 · OtherJESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPSGREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherGREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $50,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESOAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $50,000 · OtherOAKLAND CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INCST PAUL CATHEDRAL PARISH: $50,000 · OtherST PAUL CATHEDRAL PARISHJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA: $30,000 · OtherST MARY MAGDELENE PARISH: $30,000 · OtherMARYKNOLL SISTERS: $25,000 · OtherMARYKNOLL LAY MISSIONERS: $25,000 · OtherNATIONAL LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE ON CHURCH MGMT: $25,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY AND MINISTRY: $25,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $25,000 · OtherELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC: $25,000 · Other+25 more: $214,500 · Other+25 moreWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $210,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S CENTER AND S…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $20,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES O…ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $75,000 · EducationROSEMONT COLLE…CARLOW UNIVERSITY: $60,000 · EducationCARLOW UNIVERS…DEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $25,000 · EducationDEPAUL SCHOOL …DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $10,000 · EducationDUQUESNE UNIVE…GRANT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · InternationalBread for the World Institute: $25,000 · InternationalHOPE BORDER INSTITUTE: $10,000 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $7,500 · InternationalJUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 · ReligionFUTURECHURCH: $25,000 · ReligionDiscerning Deacons: $2,000 · ReligionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION: $25,000 · Community Improvement
Other$689,500Human Services$230,000Education$170,000International$72,500Religion$52,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Community Improvement$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $210,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARLOW UNIVERSITY: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRANT FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFUTURECHURCH: $25,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAZARETH PREP: $12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEW WAYS MINISTRY INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAngels Place Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIAN MANOR CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILYLINKS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHOLY FAMILY FOUNDATION: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 DEPAUL SCHOOL FOR HEARING AND SPEECH ↗
  • Who funds JUSTFAITH MINISTRIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURECHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Bread for the World Institute ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS ON RENEWAL STO-ROX NEIGHBORHOOD CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH SETON CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Community Services of Southern Arizona Inc ↗
  • Who funds NAZARETH PREP ↗
  • Who funds NEW WAYS MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Angels Place Inc ↗
  • Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
  • Who funds MARIAN MANOR CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE BORDER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗

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.

The Pittsburgh Founda…The United Way of Sou…Upmc GroupSnee-Reinhardt Charit…Kate M Kelley Foundat…Federated Investors F…Ryan Memorial Foundat…Massey Charitable Tru…Raskob Foundation for…Richard King Mellon F…Central Pennsylvania …Eqt Foundation
The Pittsburgh FoundationPA23.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary J Donnelly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary J Donnelly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    Find your warmest path to Mary J Donnelly 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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