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The Donahue Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$270kHealth$227kHuman Services$152kHousing & Shelter$98kAnimals$46kReligion$24kFood & Nutrition$13kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $76k
$2,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSOVER HEALTHCARE MINISTRY$21,000
CARITAS$15,000
UNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY$15,000
YWCA OF RICHMOND$15,000
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,500
RICHMOND SPCA$5,000
COLLEGIATE SCHOOL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
SPORTABLE$2,000
SHALOM FARMS$2,000
SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$2,000
FISTULA FOUNDATION$1,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD$1,500
VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION$1,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $2k → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $20k → 22%PETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $500 → 9%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $16k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $15k → 22%YWCA OF RICHMOND: $14k → 22%SHALOM FARMS: $3k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $2k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $2k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $2k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $2k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $2k → 9%SHALOM FARMS: $1k → 9%SPORTABLE: $2k → 22%SPORTABLE: $2k → 22%SPORTABLE: $2k → 22%SPORTABLE: $2k → 22%SPORTABLE: $2k → 22%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$845k · 20 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
10

Total granted

$845k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+34%

Still filing today

60%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalAnimalsOther
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

  • TC
    THE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +140%
  • YR
    YWCA RICHMOND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +190%
  • CI
    COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • VC
    VIRGINIA CANCER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • RANDOLPH COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -10%
  • RL
    REAL LIFEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +35%
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
Community Health Center of Richmond Inc

The organization's mission is to sustain a vibrant, healthy and strong community through affordable, culturally competent, quality primary health care.

Health
2
Bon Secours - Richmond Health System Inc

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.

Health
3
The Richmond Forum

To present powerful voices so richmond can learn. to empower local voices so richmond can lead.

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4
Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
5
Virginia Commonwealth University Intellectual Property Foundation

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…

Health
6
Community Memorial Hospital

To provide excellence in the delivery of healthcare.

Health
7
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
8
Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities

VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.

Civil Rights
9
Cristo Rey Richmond High School Inc

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…

Education
10
Vcu Investment Management Company

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…

Education
11
The Richmond Symphony

The richmond symphony performs, teaches and champions music to inspire and unite our communities.

Arts & Culture
12
Commonwealth Catholic Charities

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY: $148,750 · OtherUNION PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARYSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $23,500 · OtherSECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $11,500 · OtherLONGWOOD UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD: $9,500 · Other+9 more: $12,900 · Other+9 moreTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $160,250 · HealthTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INCVirginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program: $35,000 · HealthVirginia Law Enforcement As…The Fistula Foundation: $12,000 · HealthThe Fistula Foundation+2 more: $4,600 · HealthYWCA RICHMOND: $139,500 · Human ServicesYWCA RICHMONDSHALOM FARMSINC: $12,500 · Human ServicesSHALOM FARMSINCSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $9,500 · Human ServicesSPORTABLE RICHMOND AD…+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesCARITAS: $95,500 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS+1 more: $2,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $94,500 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITIES …RICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $45,500 · AnimalsTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,000 · EducationRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $2,500 · EducationMEREDITH COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationCivic Nation: $1,000 · Education
Other$231,150Health$211,850Human Services$163,500Housing & Shelter$97,500Crime & Legal$94,500Animals$45,500Education$17,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CROSS-OVER MINISTRY INC: $160,250 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA RICHMOND: $139,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCARITAS: $95,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF RICHMOND INC: $94,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetRICHMOND SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $45,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVirginia Law Enforcement Assistance Program: $35,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetTHE COLLEGIATE SCHOOL: $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM FARMSINC: $12,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation: $12,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSPORTABLE RICHMOND ADAPTIVE SPORTS AND RECREATION INC: $9,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFCSP FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetRANDOLPH COLLEGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAL LIFE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPETER PAUL DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEREDITH COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCivic Nation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEREDITH COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Civic Nation ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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.

The Community Foundat…Robins FoundationCarmax FoundationHerndon FoundationDominion Energy Chari…McKesson Foundation I…The Jackson FoundationMassey Family Foundat…Bon Secours - Richmon…The Pauley Family Fou…Virginia Nonprofit Ho…Richmond Memorial Hea…
The Community Foundation IncVA23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Donahue Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donahue Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 32 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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