· Private foundation
Michael Donnewald 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL SAINTS ACADEMY | $22,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KENSLEY AND WILL PRANTE TRUST | $10,000 |
| TOYS FOR JOY GREENVILLE | $5,000 |
| CITY HOPE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| HOLY GARDEN OF PRAYER CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE CARING COMMUNITY GROUP CHRISTMAS DRIVE | $5,000 |
| MATTHEW 25 ECUMENICAL FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
| JARED BURKE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ALTON MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LEWIS & CLARK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| HIGHLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NINE NETWORK OF PUBLIC MEDIA | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS | $1,000 |
| CLINTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY | $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 (FY24–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 97% of Michael Donnewald Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in IL; read by stated purpose it is 1% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- ASALL SAINTS ACADEMY SAINTS2× · 2022–2023 · $26k
- BCBCMW COMMUNITY SERVICES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $20k · revenue -9%
- TFTOYS FOR JOY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $10k
Funded once
- AIAVISTON IL VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPTone grant, 2022 · $5k
- STSTANDING TALL FOR ALIone grant, 2022 · $500
- OGOPERATION GIVING BACK MISSION BOHOLone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
Founded in 1883, brightpoint (formerly known as children's home & aid) is a leading statewide organization supporting families so children can thrive.
The hunger coalition builds a healthy community through access to good food and addresses the root causes of food insecurity in collaboration with key partners.
To continuously improve the health of the communities we serve in the spirit of hope, compassion, respect and dignity.
The lawrence humane society nurtures the human-animal bond by providing shelter, care and advocacy for homeless and abused animals, as well as resource for the pets and people in our community
St. louis area foodbank is building a stronger bi-state region by nourishing people, empowering communities, and transforming systems.
The mission of advocate health and hospitals corporation is to servethe health needs of individuals, families and communities though awholistic philosopy rooted in our fundamental understanding of humanbeings as created in the image of god.
A safe place is the leading advocate for eliminating domestic violence & human trafficking in northern illinois.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
The mission of east central illinois community action agency is to eradicate poverty; engage, empower and enrich individuals, families, and communities to become self-sufficient by providing information, training, and partnership services.
Community action leads the way to eliminate conditions of poverty and creates opportunities for people and communities to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bcmw Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Clinton County Humane Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 30 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 BCMW COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DARE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS REGIONAL PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ALTON MEMORIAL HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLINTON COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Leaps of Love Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ILLINOIS ↗
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.
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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 Michael Donnewald 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.