Connecticut · Private foundation
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $3.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $160,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $81M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $3.1M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $3.0M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.9M | 40% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $2.2M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $3.3M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $2.5M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $2.2M | 32% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $2.4M | 59% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $2,021,789 | 6 | 0% |
| The Hastings Center Inc | $1,310,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $677,937 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $668,929 | 3 | n/a |
| Duke University | $599,862 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $590,701 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $563,816 | 3 | 0% |
| Academyhealth | $554,865 | 5 | 3% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $528,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $526,700 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Johns Hopkins University | $2,021,789 | 6 | 0% |
| The Hastings Center Inc | $1,310,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $677,937 | 2 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $668,929 | 3 | n/a |
| Duke University | $599,862 | 3 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $590,701 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $563,816 | 3 | 0% |
| Academyhealth | $554,865 | 5 | 3% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $528,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Washington | $526,700 | 3 | n/a |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $491,142 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Chicago | $460,860 | 3 | 0% |
| Woman's Hospital Foundation D/B/A Woman's Hospital | $436,667 | 2 | 0% |
| Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Washington | $399,917 | 2 | 0% |
| Yale University | $378,694 | 4 | n/a |
| Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc | $358,992 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Pittsburgh | $324,458 | 4 | 0% |
| The Nemours Foundation | $311,738 | 2 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco | $307,742 | 2 | n/a |
| Yale University | $292,161 | 2 | n/a |
| Emory University | $275,000 | 1 | n/a |
| University of Rochester | $264,246 | 3 | 0% |
| Association of American Medical Colleges | $231,180 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Michigan | $221,280 | 1 | 84% |
| Regents of the University of California | $215,653 | 1 | n/a |
| Miami University | $213,374 | 3 | n/a |
| The George Washington University | $192,105 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts | $185,101 | 2 | n/a |
| University of Washington | $176,157 | 2 | n/a |
| New York University | $152,974 | 3 | 0% |
| The Rand Corporation | $151,220 | 1 | n/a |
| Yale University | $145,099 | 3 | n/a |
| Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc | $144,406 | 2 | 0% |
| Fund for the Aged Inc | $134,996 | 2 | 1% |
| Kansas State University | $130,838 | 2 | n/a |
| Michigan State University | $121,904 | 2 | n/a |
| Leadingage Inc | $118,712 | 2 | 0% |
| Wake Forest University | $60,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell Univers | $47,895 | 1 | n/a |
| National Governors Association Center for Best Practices | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Health Research Alliance Inc | $13,375 | 3 | 1% |
| Nc Prevention Partners | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Optimus Health Care Inc | $4,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Connecticut Health Advancement and Research Trust Inc | $500 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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
Compare The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation with peer funders
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About The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation
- How much does The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation give?
- The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation reported 22 grants totaling $3,635,071 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (51%), Education (42%), Social Science (6%).
- Who are The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Johns Hopkins University ($2.0M), The Hastings Center Inc ($1.3M), Trustees of Boston University ($678k).
- Does The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation based?
- The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation is based in CT.
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