· Private foundation
Diane and John O'Donnell Family 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, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEO HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CASA FAMILIA INC | $10,000 |
| KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $5,000 |
| LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES | $5,000 |
| ROOSEVELT UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO | $5,000 |
| LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 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, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LHLEO HIGH SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $60k
- LCLEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $42k · revenue +14%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS3× · 2022–2024 · $30k
Funded once
- NMNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- NPNATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +4%
- TJTHE JED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -15%
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.
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See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
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Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 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 LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Roosevelt University ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CASA FAMILIA INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AID FOR WOMEN INC ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Diane and John O'Donnell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Diane and John O'Donnell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Casa Familia Inc: 53% of income from government
How this is measured
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