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The Donahey Family Foundation at a glance

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The Donahey 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.

$140k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Environment$285kEducation$225kPublic Safety & Disaster$71kHealth$63kAnimals$40kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WINOUS POINT MARSH CONVERVANCY$51,000
BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY$25,000
THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$15,000
DREAM CATCHERS$10,000
HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC DBA THE DOORWAYS$10,000
STRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST$9,000
POLO COMMUNITY OF AIKEN FUND$5,000
THE GENERALS READOUT$2,500
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER SOCIETY$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%DREAM CATCHERS: $10k → 11%COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $20k → 17%POLO COMMUNITY OF AIKEN FUND: $5k → 17%WINOUS POINT MARSH CONVERVANCY: $51k → 10%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER SOCIETY: $3k → 17%JAMES RIVER HORSE FDN: $20k → 6%THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $15k → 9%CHARLES CITY VOL FIRE DEPT: $10k → 12%THE GENERALS REDOUBT: $3k → 12%DORWAYS RICHMOND: $25k → 22%STRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY: $30k → 11%SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER: $8k → 12%WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER SOCIETY: $3k → 17%JAMES RIVER HORSE FDN: $10k → 6%THE GENERALS REDOUBT: $3k → 12%THE DOORWAYS: $13k → 22%BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY: $30k → 11%WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $50k → 10%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER SOCIETY: $3k → 17%THE GENERALS READOUT: $3k → 12%HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC DBA THE DOORWAYS: $10k → 22%BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY: $25k → 11%WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $46k → 10%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER SOCIETY: $3k → 17%THE GENERALS REDOUBT: $3k → 12%FRIENDS OF THE RICHMOND MOUNTED SQUAD: $10k → 22%BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY: $25k → 11%WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $43k → 10%CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST: $17k → 17%BURR AND BURTON ACADEMY: $25k → 11%WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $38k → 10%CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST: $15k → 17%NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL CHARITY: $25k → 11%CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST: $12k → 17%CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST: $9k → 17%CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST: $3k → 17%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $10k → 17%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$523k · 6 repeat orgs$170k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

$523k
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
+43%

Still filing today

67%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterHealthOther
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

  • WP
    WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY
    6× · 2019–2025 · $278k · revenue +1%
  • BB
    BURR & BURTON SEMINARY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $135k · revenue +73%
  • JR
    James River Horse Foundation
    2× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • ND
    NORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • COLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +64%
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
Emory & Henry University

Emory & henry university is a learning community in pursuit of excellence, engaging a diverse group of well-qualified men and women in educational experiences in which students confront historical and contemporary ideas and issues, and…

Education
2
Hunter Classical Christian School

Provide an education to children in lower and middle school using classical christian methodology.

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

—
5
Hillsdale College

Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…

Education
6
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
7
Secretariat Heritage Center
Arts & Culture
8
Richmond Waldorf School

Our approach to a holistic Waldorf education lays the foundation for a life full of meaning and purpose. (See 4a)

—
9
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
10
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Collegiate School Inc; the most unlike its peers is Northshire Day School. 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

12 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. 12 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $277,500 · EnvironmentWINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCYBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $135,000 · EducationBURR & BURTON SEMINARYCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INCTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $15,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOLHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOLTHE CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE CHARITABLE TRUST: $60,500 · OtherTHE CLEVELAND MOUNTED POLICE…Individual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL: $25,000 · OtherNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOLTHE DOORWAYS: $12,500 · OtherTHE DOORWAYSDREAM CATCHERS: $10,000 · OtherDREAM CATCHERSCHARLES CITY VOL FIRE DEPT: $10,000 · OtherCHARLES CITY VOL FIRE DEPTUNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER SOCIETY: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY SCHOOL TOWER SOCI…STRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherSTRATTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…SMOKEY HOUSE CENTER: $7,500 · Other+1 more: $5,000 · OtherJames River Horse Foundation: $30,000 · AnimalsTHE GENERALS REDOUBT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC: $10,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF THE RICHMOND MOUNTED SQUAD: $10,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Environment$277,500Education$180,000Other$175,500Animals$30,000Arts & Culture$10,000Health$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWINOUS POINT MARSH CONSERVANCY: $277,500 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetBURR & BURTON SEMINARY: $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJames River Horse Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNORTHSHIRE DAY SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCOLLEGIATE SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GENERALS REDOUBT: $10,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDREAM CATCHERS: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF RICHMOND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RICHMOND MOUNTED SQUAD: $10,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetSMOKEY HOUSE CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

William J and Dorothy…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation IncOH15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: William J and Dorothy K O'Neill Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The Donahey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donahey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Smokey House Center: 54% of income from government
  • Northshire Day School: 39% of income from government
  • Burr & Burton Seminary: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 19 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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