· Private foundation
The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMORY UNIVERSITY | $275,000 |
| BECKMAN REASEARCH INSTITUTE CITY OF HOPE | $272,839 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $269,057 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $258,135 |
| HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC | $246,520 |
| VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY | $240,119 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $217,679 |
| UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER | $217,672 |
| THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $214,795 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $167,257 |
| THE HASTINGS CENTER | $160,000 |
| RAND | $151,220 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS | $132,158 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $123,818 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $121,494 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY6× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +51%- THThe Hastings Center Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +64%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY2× · 2021–2025 · $678k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- AOASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $231k · revenue +79%
- UOUniversity of Michigangraduatedone grant, 2019 · $221k · revenue +140% · 84% of their budget
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAone grant, 2020 · $216k
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 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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.
Education and Research
University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 89 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 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds The Hastings Center Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ACADEMYHEALTH ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds WOMAN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION D/B/A WOMAN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds KAISER FOUNDATION HEALTH PLAN OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc: 37% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Optimus Health Care Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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