· Private foundation
The Donahue 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSOVER HEALTHCARE MINISTRY | $21,000 |
| CARITAS | $15,000 |
| YWCA OF RICHMOND | $15,000 |
| UNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| RICHMOND SPCA | $5,000 |
| COLLEGIATE SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SPORTABLE | $2,000 |
| SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| SHALOM FARMS | $2,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,500 |
| FISTULA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +69% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- TCTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +140%
- YRYWCA RICHMOND9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +190%
- CICOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- VCVIRGINIA CANCER INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $5k
RANDOLPH COLLEGE INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -10%- RLREAL LIFEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +35%
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.
The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.
The mission is to bring compassion to health care and to be good to those in need, especially those who are poor and dying. as a system of caregivers, we commit ourselves to help bring people and communities to health and wholeness.
To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.
Chamberrva is the trusted voice for modern business in the richmond virginia region. we are change agents, rallying to do the hard things that will create a more connected, prosperous, health and equitable community.
The foundation determines the patentability and obtains patents on virginia commonwealth university (vcu) inventions and markets and licenses such inventions to commerical entities. the foundation's activities promote research efforts at…
To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Cristo Rey Richmond High School is a Catholic learning community that educates young people of limited economic means to become men and women of faith, purpose and service. Through a rigorous college preparatory curriculum, integrated with…
To provide investment and investment management and related services to the rector and the board of visitors of virginia commonwealth university (vcu), and/or to the private and independent foundations and other entities affiliated with…
The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.
To provide quality, compassionate human services to all people, especially the most vulnerable, regardless of faith, by empowering individuals, streghening families and building community through faith and service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Fcsp Foundation. 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 32 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 CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds CARITAS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Virginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
- Who funds The Fistula Foundation ↗
- Who funds SPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC ↗
- Who funds FCSP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds REAL LIFE ↗
- Who funds PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Civic Nation ↗
- Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation Inc · Robins Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · McKesson Foundation Inc · The Jackson Foundation · Massey Family Foundation · Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc · The Pauley Family Foundation · Virginia Nonprofit Housing Coalition · Richmond Memorial Health 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 The Donahue Family Foundation 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.