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The Donant 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.

$195k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$84k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$735kArts & Culture$180kHousing & Shelter$100kHuman Services$67kHealth$44kRecreation & Sports$41kFood & Nutrition$40kPublic Safety & Disaster$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
$11,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$83,500
JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$40,000
ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL$40,000
ELK GROVE YOUNG LIFE$11,500
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER SACRAMENTO$10,000
FUTURE FOUNDATION$8,500
FAIRYTALE TOWN$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 (FY18–22, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $13k → 12%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE: $3k → 12%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 15 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
8

Total granted

$1.3M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-7%
+12%

Still filing today

20%
75%

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
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • JH
    JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2025 · $300k
  • CR
    CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $253k
  • CA
    CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue -7%

Funded once

  • SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +7%
  • AA
    Albie Aware Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -63%
  • PS
    Pregnancy Support Group of Woodland Inc Crisis Pregnancy Hotlinegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +79%
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
San Francisco Family Foundation
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2
Sacramento Steps Forward

The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…

Human Services
3
Family Promise of Sacramento

To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…

Education
4
The Young Family Foundation
—
5
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
6
World Family Foundation
Philanthropy
7
The Sanctuary Foster Care Services

Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.

Human Services
8
Family Futures

To help all children in our community reach their full potential.

Crime & Legal
9
Family Promise - Salt Lake

We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.

Housing & Shelter
10
Angels Foster Care of Santa Barbara

Angels foster care protects abused, neglected and abandoned infants and toddlers, nurtures them in one loving home until adoption or reunification, and ensures that they reach their maximum development potential.

Human Services
11
FosterHope Sacramento

To provide certified residential care and treatment of foster care children placed through county welfare departments under the provision of the california welfare and institutions code

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12
Futuro Infantil Hispano

Futuro Infantil Hispano is a non-profit Foster Family Agency devoted to providing quality care and we strongly believe in and support family reunification.

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Forever Families; the most unlike its peers is The Future 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

11 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. 11 of the 24 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL: $300,000 · OtherJESUIT HIGH SCHOOLCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $252,750 · OtherCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $100,000 · OtherSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYSST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL: $100,000 · OtherST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOLB STREET THEATER: $80,000 · OtherB STREET THEATERVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER SACRAMENTO: $60,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER SACRAMENTOSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $40,000 · OtherELK GROVE YOUNG LIFE: $40,000 · Other+7 more: $70,848 · Other+7 moreWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesWIND YOUT…SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $13,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOH…+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Future Foundation: $42,500 · EducationAlbie Aware Inc: $7,500 · HealthANGELS FOR HEARTS INC: $1,000 · HealthYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFairytale Town Inc: $1,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,043,598Human Services$116,000Arts & Culture$100,000Education$42,500Health$8,500Youth Development$5,000Recreation & Sports$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $13,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlbie Aware Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPregnancy Support Group of Woodland Inc Crisis Pregnancy Hotline: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE: $3,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOR HEARTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds Albie Aware Inc ↗
  • Who funds Pregnancy Support Group of Woodland Inc Crisis Pregnancy Hotline ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS FOR HEARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds Fairytale Town 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.

Sacramento Region Com…Teichert FoundationGately Foundation A C…Pfund Family Foundati…Point West Rotary Clu…United Way California…Sutter Valley Hospita…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Network for GoodDonor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Gately Foundation A California Charitable Trust · Pfund Family Foundation · Point West Rotary Club Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Sutter Valley Hospitals · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s 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)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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 24 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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