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The Van Deuren Donovan Family Foundation at a glance

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The Van Deuren Donovan Family Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2026still arriving
4
Grants FY2026still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$341kEducation$73kHealth$26kEnvironment$25kAnimals$2kArts & Culture$2kReligion$1kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2026 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$3,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$419k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM$10,000
LOST TREE FOUNDATION$3,500
SMITH COLLEGE$500
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE$500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Smith College: $500 → 12%Deerfield Academy: $10k → 14%Meals on Wheels San Francisco: $500 → 10%LOST TREE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%Big Dog Rescue: $1k → 19%After Breast Cancer Diagnosis: $500 → 5%Kellogg Graduate School of Management: $5k → 14%Bowdoin College: $500 → 7%Smith College: $500 → 12%Deerfield Academy: $5k → 14%San Francisco SPCA: $1k → 10%Lost Tree Foundation: $4k → 11%Women's Breast Cancar Showhouse: $2k → 17%Kellogg Graduate School of Management: $3k → 14%Smith College: $500 → 12%Deerfield Academy: $5k → 14%Mission Dolores Academy: $500 → 10%LOST TREE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%St Eugene Congregation: $1k → 17%SMITH COLLEGE: $500 → 12%Deerfield Academy: $5k → 14%Linke Family Charitable Fund: $338k → 10%Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $4k → 11%University School USM Fund: $500 → 17%Alzheimer's Association: $5k → 10%Lost Tree Foundation: $4k → 11%USM Fund: $500 → 17%Alzheimer's Association: $3k → 10%Lost Tree Foundation: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE: $500 → 17%Lost Tree Foundation: $4k → 11%USM Fund: $500 → 17%Lost Tree Foundation: $4k → 11%University School of Milwaukee: $500 → 17%LOST TREE FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE: $500 → 17%The Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $3k → 11%MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM: $10k → 17%The Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $750 → 11%MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM: $1k → 17%The Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $750 → 11%Medical College of Wisconsin: $11k → 17%Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center: $10k → 17%Medical College of Wisconsin: $10k → 17%Medical College of Wisconsin: $5k → 17%Medical College of Wisconsin: $5k → 17%MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN: $5k → 17%Medical College of WI - Allenbury Family Friends: $1k → 17%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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$123k · 11 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2026, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

$123k
$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+44%

Still filing today

64%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationAnimalsPhilanthropyCrime & LegalHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TM
    THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +45%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +122%
  • MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2024–2026 · $12k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • LF
    Linke Family Charitable Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $338k
  • MC
    Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • LT
    Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +38%
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
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
2
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
3
Milwaukee Women Inc

Milwaukee women inc is an organization of executives determined to change the quality and composition of corporate boards to maximize the performance of public and private companies with a focus on women and women of color.

Education
4
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
5
Mount Sinai Medical Center Foundation

To raise funds to support mount sinai medical center of florida, inc., a not-for-profit acute care teaching and research facility, so that it may provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching,…

Health
6
Minneapolis College of Art and Design

Mcad provides a transformative education within a community of support for creative students of all backgrounds to work, collaborate, and lead with confidence in a dynamic, interconnected world.

Education
7
Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida Inc

To provide high quality health care to our diverse community enhanced through teaching, research, charity care and financial responsibility.

Health
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
10
Mills College

Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…

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11
Miami University Foundation

Support of miami university

Education
12
The Massachusetts Society for Medical Research Inc

To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Milwaukee Public Museum Inc; the most unlike its peers is The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Linke Family Charitable Fund: $337,718 · OtherLinke Family Charitable FundLost Tree Foundation: $28,000 · OtherLost Tree Foundation+14 more: $35,525 · Other+14 moreTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $35,500 · EducationTHE MEDICAL COL…TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEE…+3 more: $4,100 · Education+3 moreMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $11,500 · Arts & CultureNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $2,500 · PhilanthropyThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $2,250 · PhilanthropyBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $1,000 · AnimalsTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · AnimalsPLAY FOR PINK INC: $1,535 · Crime & LegalABCD INC: $500 · Health
Other$401,243Education$64,600Arts & Culture$11,500Philanthropy$4,750Animals$2,000Crime & Legal$1,535Health$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN INC: $35,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michelle McGann Fund Inc: $2,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC: $1,535 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MILWAUKEE CORPORATION: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABCD INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMAN'S CLUB OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY11.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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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How do I get to The Van Deuren Donovan Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Van Deuren Donovan Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 28 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 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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