Massachusetts · Private foundation
Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable 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.
- $638k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 23 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $348k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 32 | $628k | 16% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $547k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $1.5M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $4.8M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 34 | $4.0M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $6.8M | 59% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $3.5M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 35 | $2.7M | 54% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| UTEC Inc | $3,155,739 | 6 | 14% |
| Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress Inc | $2,751,022 | 4 | 57% |
| Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc | $2,101,000 | 9 | 26% |
| Lasell University | $1,310,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 23% |
| Project Learn Inc | $780,000 | 5 | 55% |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library Foundation Incorporated | $750,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Girls Inc | $555,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc | $504,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Lowell House Inc | $317,500 | 3 | 3% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 60 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Demoulas Foundation · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Battles Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Trustees of the Ayer Home · The Saab Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation
- How much does Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation give?
- Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $638,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (28%), Education (20%), Youth Development (17%).
- Who are Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: UTEC Inc ($3.2M), Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress Inc ($2.8M), Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ($2.1M).
- Does Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund.
- Where is Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation based?
- Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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