· Private foundation
The Donovan Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $108k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY | $107,650 |
| LISTENING THE BARRE INTEGRATED HEALTH CENTER | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE STONE CHURCH INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LTLISTENING THE BARRE INTEGRATED HEALTH CENTER INC4× · 2018–2022 · $22k · revenue +15%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE STONE CHURCH3× · 2019–2022 · $19k · revenue +24%
- W1WORKSHOP 13 INC4× · 2018–2021 · $6k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- QVQUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -8%
- NONORTHEAST ORGANIC FARMING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
- ECERIC CARLE MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
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.
The maine organic farmers and gardeners association is transforming our food system by supporting farmers, empowering people to feed their communities and advocating for an organic future.
Massachusetts horticultural society seeks to help people change their lives and communities for the better through growing plants together. for 196 years, massachusetts horticultural society has had a mission to promote the art and science…
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Human welfare organization
Creation and operation of world class contemporary art museum and securing related funding.
To educate its membership and the people of the state of connecticut as to the benefits of natural, organic, ecological agriculture, including the implications relating to their health.
Educate members and general public regarding native american stone features located throughout new england.
To initiate and support art and creative activities that enrich lives and fuel cultural and economic development of the grayling community and northern michigan region
How this is measured
7 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. 7 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LISTENING THE BARRE INTEGRATED HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STONE CHURCH ↗
- Who funds QUABOAG VALLEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOP 13 INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds NGORONGORO COMMUNITY NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Donovan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Donovan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- American Antiquarian Society: 7% of income from government
- Friends of the Stone Church: 2% of income from government
- Workshop 13 Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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