How much does The Donohue Family Foundation Inc give?

The Donohue Family Foundation Inc reported 16 grants totaling $372,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Donohue Family Foundation Inc fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (31%), Education (21%), Community Improvement (19%).

Who are The Donohue Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: US Chamber of Commerce Foundation ($1.0M), Some Inc ($676k), Marymount University ($330k).

Does The Donohue Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Donohue Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Where is The Donohue Family Foundation Inc based?

The Donohue Family Foundation Inc is based in MD.

The Donohue Family Foundation Inc

The Donohue Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

The Donohue Family Foundation Inc

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.

$372k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$111k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.6MEducation$1.1MCommunity Improvement$1.0MFood & Nutrition$676kSocial Science$305kYouth Development$126kHuman Services$93kReligion$81kOther$0

02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $31k
$10k–50k6 grants · $125k
$50k–250k3 grants · $216k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$770k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SO OTHERS MIGHT EAT	$111,000
SKILLPOINT FOUNDATION	$55,000
MAYO CLINIC	$50,000
ADELPHI UNIVERSITY	$30,000
MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER	$25,000
CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL PRIVATE ENTERPRISE	$25,000
LOMBARDI CANCER CENTER MEDSTAR GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL	$25,000
SAFE PROJECT	$10,000
DAWSON SCHOOL	$10,000
CONNELLY SCHOOL OF THE HOLY CHILD	$7,500
CATHEDRAL OF ST MATTHEW	$7,500
DELIVERING GOOD HEALTH COMMUNITY	$5,000
SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB OF VAIL	$5,000
YWCA OF BOULDER COUNTY	$2,500
RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST	$2,500

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.7M · 46 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+42%

Still filing today

54%

42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther

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

SI
SOME INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $676k · revenue +30%
MU
MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
7× · 2018–2024 · $330k · revenue +14%
HI
Hudson Institute Inc
3× · 2020–2024 · $305k · revenue +283%

Funded once

UC
US Chamber of Commerce Foundationgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +56%
CO
COLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE
one grant, 2017 · $100k
MN
MEDSTAR NATIONAL REHABILITATION NETWORK
one grant, 2019 · $25k

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.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel

Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…

Community Improvement

Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—

American Council On Education

Ace leads higher education with a united vision for the future, galvanizing our members to make change. the council collaborates across the sector to design solutions for today's challenges, serves the needs of a diverse student…

Education

University of Virginia Investment Management Company

The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education

Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Foxhall 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

42 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. 42 of the 81 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/42

Grantees still filing

35/42

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,978,000Education$1,618,500Health$493,000Philanthropy$81,500International$70,125Human Services$51,000Religion$7,000Public Benefit$2,000

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.

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.

Greater Washington Community FoundationDC17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Baird Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home