· Private foundation
O'Donovan 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| CHERRY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER | $30,000 |
| HEART OF W MI UNITED WAY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN | $24,500 |
| SW AUTISM RESEARCH & RESOURCE CENTER | $15,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN | $15,000 |
| TWO TEN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NORTH KENT CONNECT | $10,000 |
| KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CHALLENGE FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HOUSE OF REFUGE | $5,000 |
| BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $5,000 |
| PHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% 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.
39 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $799k · revenue +1%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +28%- GRGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC7× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue +116%
Funded once
- HOHeart of West Michiganone grant, 2018 · $35k
- HOHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAYone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -8%
- HOHEART OF WEST MI UNITED WAYone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Business leaders for michigan is a nonprofit, nonpartisan statewide organization driven by ceos from the state's leading employers, all working toward a shared goal: making michigan a top 10 state for jobs, talent and a thriving economy.…
Changing lives through the power of work.
The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.
To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.
Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.
Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is American Society for Reproductive Immunology. 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 35 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 56 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 BLANDFORD NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds TWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FUTURES ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST STEPS KENT ↗
- Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019) ↗
- Who funds VAN ANDEL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT ↗
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: Grand Rapids Community Foundation · Frey Foundation · Heart of West Michigan United Way · Peter C & Emajean Cook Foundation · Wolverine World Wide Foundation · Douglas & Maria Devos Foundation · Cdv5 Foundation · Steelcase Foundation · The Meijer Foundation · The Mercantile Bank Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Consumers Energy 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 O'Donovan 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.
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.