· Private foundation
Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k45 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $12,600 |
| MAYO CLINIC FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| KINGDOM WORKERS | $5,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $5,000 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER | $4,000 |
| ST MARCUS LUTHERAN SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| MARTIN LUTHER COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,900 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD | $775 |
| ST PETER LUTHERAN CHURCH | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $25) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
50 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WEWISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +35%
WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +5%
DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- BCBIRCH CREEK AT AL ATTACHEDone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MCMAYO CLINICone grant, 2021 · $3k
- HIHOSPICE IN THE VALLEYone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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.
To share christ's love as we serve the spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional needs of people entrusted to our care and others whose lives we touch.
Inspiring individuals and communities through exceptional music education, accessible to all.
To promote oshkosh and winnebago county a premier destination for corporate, sports, and leisure groups and individual visitors.
Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.
Landmark conservancy is a nationally accredited, nonprofit conservation organization serving 20 counties across northwest wisconsin. their mission is to conserve wisconsin's natural legacy for everyone...forever.
Legal protection and advocacy to protect the rights of people with disabilities in wisconsin.
To inspire and nurture a love of theatre and the arts with the following mission: the maintenance of a permanent multi-arts and theatre facility. the sponsorship and coordination of education and cultural programming in visual arts,…
The museum of wisconsin art celebrates the value, diversity, and uniqueness of the visual arts and artists of wisconsin. this is achieved by collecting, conserving, documenting, exhibiting, and promoting aesthetic understanding of the…
Luther classical college educates lutherans in the classical, lutheran tradition and prepares them for godly vocations within family, church, and society, fostering christian culture through study of the best of our western heritage.
Strengthen communities by providing high-quality and innovative artistic experiences that entertain, inspire, and unite diverse audiences.
The door county historical society strives to collect, maintain and share the history and heritage of door county through preservation, education and programming.
The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 77 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD KINGDOM WORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN LUTHERAN COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Branch Lutheran Schools of Haiti Inc ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY MARITIME MUSEUM & LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Door County YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS-A HOME FOR MOTHERS INC ↗
- Who funds WISCONSIN MARITIME MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WELS LUTHERANS FOR LIFE METRO MILWAUKEE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN SKY THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN LIFE RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOWOC COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITOL CIVIC CENTRE INC ↗
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: Door County Community Foundation Inc · Ellsworth and Carla Peterson Charitable Foundation · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Holzhueter Foundation · Mmg Foundation Inc · Neumann Family Foundation Inc · Siebert Lutheran Foundation Inc · John and Peggy Zimdars Foundation · Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Inc · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · Arvid W & Judy R Schwartz Family Foundation · Thrivent Charitable Impact & Investing
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert a and Lynn I Doneff Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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