· Private foundation
Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMER IN THE PARK | $8,000 |
| DONOVAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL DIST #3 | $8,000 |
| IROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $8,000 |
| SUGAR CREEK OPERA LTD | $7,000 |
| PRAIRIE DELL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LABOLOGY | $5,000 |
| THE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY | $4,000 |
| FIRST UNITED METHODIS CHURCH OF WATSEKA | $4,000 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICE | $4,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,500 |
| WATSEKA AREA FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| CLIFTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| VILLAGE OF WOODLAND POLICE DEPT | $3,000 |
| MARTINTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| SHELDON AREA FOOD PANTRY OF THE | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TATHE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +37%
- PSPRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +33%
- IMIROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME3× · 2020–2025 · $28k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- DTDANFORTH TOWNSHIP COMMUNITY BLDGone grant, 2022 · $9k
- IVILLINOIS VETERANS OF DESERT WARSone grant, 2022 · $5k
- ICIROQUOIS COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICEone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
Provide food and grocery items to poor
To collect and distribute food and other supplies at no cost to the needy in the Cicero-Berwyn-Stickney (Illinois) area.
Family grieving services
Food pantry, we procure, warehouse, and distribute food/ goods to food pantries.
To provide food and other grocery items to needy residents of Putnam County, Illinois, and to transients in need.
To provide an enviornment promoting community socialization
Serve the residents of the itasca illinois community with food, personal hygiene products, and other household goods at no cost to the recipient. also provide one-time assistance to those not residing in itasca.
To provide Literary and Educational Resources to the people of Prairie Du Rocher and the surrounding area.
To provide at least 2 days of food to needy families and people.
Provide food to needy people.
The North Scott Food Pantry provides food for people in need. Clients receive enough food for about one week and are allowed to get food every 28 days. There were 721 visits to our food pantry in 2025.
Icf and long term care facility
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Iroquois Memorial Hospital & Resident Home and the most unlike its peers is Garage in Gilman. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 10% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 6% 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.
14 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. 14 of the 49 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 THE ARC OF IROQUOIS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUGAR CREEK OPERA LTD ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds IROQUOIS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL & RESIDENT HOME ↗
- Who funds CISSNA PARK AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MILFORD PARK & POOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLIFTON COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GARAGE IN GILMAN ↗
- Who funds OSF Healthcare System ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Options Center for Independent Living ↗
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: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · Mary Helen Roberts Trust · Freed Charitable Trust · Arthur and Gesena Griffin Trust Yellow Cardinal Advisory Group · Paul & Norma Schaumburg Charitable · Miner Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Raymond F Donovan Trust 1015010096 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.