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O'Donovan Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$507k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$2.0MEnvironment$1.1MHealth$440kArts & Culture$225kPhilanthropy$215kEmployment$120kHuman Services$93kRecreation & Sports$77kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
KENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION$10,000
NORTH KENT CONNECT$10,000
TWO TEN FOUNDATION$10,000
CHALLENGE FOUNDATION$7,500
HOUSE OF REFUGE$5,000
BROPHY COLLEGE PREPARATORY$5,000
PHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY$4,000
02The need
03

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%MAGGIE'S PLACE: $3k → 11%North Kent Connect: $20k → 11%North Kent Connect: $15k → 11%North Kent Connect: $15k → 11%North Kent Connect: $10k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $10k → 11%North Kent Connect: $5k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $3k → 11%NORTH KENT CONNECT: $3k → 11%YMCA OF GREATER GRAND RAPIDS: $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

MI
MA
IA
MD
AZ
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 39 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
15

Total granted

$4.5M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+69%

Still filing today

56%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsCommunity 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

  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $799k · revenue +1%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN
    9× · 2017–2025 · $126k · revenue +28%
  • GR
    GRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $58k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • HO
    Heart of West Michigan
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • HO
    HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue -8%
  • HO
    HEART OF WEST MI UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
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
The Northern Michigan University Foundation

The nmu foundation will establish and foster relationships to generate resources that benefit the strategic goals of northern michigan university.

Education
2
Business Leaders for Michigan Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
3
Michigan Chamber of Commerce

To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.

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4
Business Leaders for 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.…

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5
Goodwill Industries of Central Michigan's Heartland Inc

Changing lives through the power of work.

Employment
6
The Right Place Inc

The right place is the economic development organization that drives current and long-term economic prosperity in west michigan.

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7
University Corporate Research Park I Inc

To hold title and perform related functions in connection with a research park and innovation center in support of michigan state university research foundation.

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8
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
9
Grand Rapids Area Community Foundation

Inspire individuals and organizations to invest in their community to improve the quality of life.

Community Improvement
10
Common Good Iowa

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.

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11
Mid Michigan Community Action Agency Inc

Mid michigan community action guides local residents on the path to self-sufficiency through empowerment, education and community enrichment.

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12
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grand Rapids Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

30 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. 30 of the 56 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
19/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY: $960,000 · OtherMICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITYStudent Advancement Foundation: $262,500 · OtherStudent Advancement FoundationHeart of W MI United Way: $150,000 · OtherHeart of W MI United WayGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONY: $145,750 · OtherGRAND RAPIDS SYMPHONYIndividual grant recipient: $130,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHelen DeVos Childrens Hospital Foundation: $103,500 · Other+32 more: $579,000 · Other+32 moreBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $1,026,911 · EducationBLANDFORD NATURE CENTERIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $799,160 · EducationIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION+3 more: $33,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $125,500 · HealthCOREWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION WEST MICHIGAN: $60,000 · HealthSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $10,500 · Health+1 more: $5,500 · HealthTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 · Community ImprovementROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $80,000 · Human ServicesThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesGRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC: $50,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $35,000 · PhilanthropyVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $9,000 · PhilanthropyGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,330,750Education$1,859,071Health$201,500Community Improvement$115,000Human Services$92,500Recreation & Sports$51,000Philanthropy$49,000

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 budgetBLANDFORD NATURE CENTER: $1,026,911 over 9y, 8.3% of budgetIOWA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $799,160 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MICHIGAN: $125,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC: $115,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetROCKFORD COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $80,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS YOUTH COMMONWEALTH INC: $57,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS WHITEWATER INC: $50,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetHEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY FUTURES: $23,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHOUSE OF REFUGE INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA WEST MICHIGAN: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX HERPETOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC: $19,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWEST MICHIGAN CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $16,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST STEPS KENT: $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENT COUNTY PARKS FOUNDATION: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST AUTISM RESEARCH AND RESOURCE CENTER: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Grand Rapids (3019): $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAN ANDEL INSTITUTE: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE AMERICAN CONNECTIONS INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR MILITARY RECRUITMENT ASSESSMENT AND VETERANS EMPLOYMENT: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRAND RAPIDS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF THE MICHIGAN GREAT LAKES INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMATTHEW 2540 HEARTSIDE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP BLODGETT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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 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 GRAND RAPIDS 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.

Grand Rapids Communit…Frey FoundationHeart of West Michiga…Peter C & Emajean Coo…Wolverine World Wide …Douglas & Maria Devos…Cdv5 FoundationSteelcase FoundationThe Meijer FoundationThe Mercantile Bank F…WK Kellogg FoundationConsumers Energy Foun…
Grand Rapids Community FoundationMI31.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 O'Donovan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from O'Donovan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 56 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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