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Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc at a glance

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Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$15MEnvironment$5.9MHealth$2.0MArts & Culture$1.3MReligion$1.3MFood & Nutrition$842kAnimals$650kHousing & Shelter$640kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $289k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $919k
  • $250k+2 grants · $723k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY$400,000
FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC$323,000
FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER$200,000
STELLA ADLER THEATRE$160,000
ANTELOPE VALLEY CONSERVANCY$140,000
COLETTES CHILDREN HOME INC$100,000
VENTURA COUNTY FARM TO SCHOOL$100,000
LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC$100,000
TREEPEOPLE INC$69,000
ALEXANDRIA HOUSE$50,000
MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES$30,000
HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION$30,000
VALLEY VILLAGE$20,000
STUDENTS FOR ECO EDUCATION AND AGRICULTURE INC$20,000
LAS FAMILIAS DEL PUEBLO$20,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING: $25k → 14%APOPO US INC: $75k → 14%APOPO US INC: $50k → 14%APOPO US INC: $19k → 14%ALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $50k → 14%VALLEY VILLAGE: $50k → 14%VALLEY VILLAGE: $25k → 14%VALLEY VILLAGE: $25k → 14%VALLEY VILLAGE: $25k → 14%VALLEY VILLAGE: $20k → 14%VALLEY VILLAGE: $20k → 14%RAINBOW SERVICES LTD: $200k → 14%HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $80k → 14%HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $70k → 14%HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
OR
CA
UT
VA
MD
DC
HI
GA
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 43 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
44

Total granted

$23M
$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

72%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $513k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationAnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthArts & 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

  • VISION TO LEARN
    2× · 2022–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +77%
  • HS
    HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
    2× · 2019–2021 · $600k · revenue +10%
  • TI
    TREEPEOPLE INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $574k · revenue +111%

Funded once

  • SC
    ST CORNELIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • WC
    WE CARE SOLARgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $314k · revenue +103%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $300k · revenue -7%
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
Los Angeles Conservancy

The los angeles conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization that works through education and advocacy to recognize, preserve, and revitalize the historic architectural and cultural resources of los angeles county.

Arts & Culture
2
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
Los Angeles Conservation Corps

The la conservation corps creates equitable opportunities for young people to build resilience in themselves, their communities and the environment through a program of work, education and support.

Employment
5
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

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6
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools

We transform schools to revolutionize school systems, empowering all students with a high-quality education. the partnership's goals are to 1) dramatically accelerate achievement for students in the district's highest need and historically…

Education
7
Los Angeles Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Spcala is dedicated to the prevention of cruelty to animals through education, law enforcement, intervention and advocacy.

Animals
8
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
9
University of La Verne

The university of la verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of traditional-age, adult, and graduate learners, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning…

Education
10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
12
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 97 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/77
Grantees still filing
52/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST GENEVIEVE HIGH SCHOOL: $10,094,000 · OtherST GENEVIEVE HIGH SCHOOLTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,979,956 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYSACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOL: $1,533,570 · OtherSACRED HEART HIGH SCHOOLTHE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBISHOP OF LOS ANGELES A CO: $1,050,000 · Other+43 more: $5,596,899 · Other+43 moreTREEPEOPLE INC: $574,000 · EnvironmentTREEPEOPL…Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust: $550,174 · EnvironmentLos Angel…LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $520,000 · EnvironmentLOS ANGEL…FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $500,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS O…ANTELOPE VALLEY CONSERVANCY: $214,677 · EnvironmentANTELOPE …+6 more: $198,239 · Environment+6 moreVISION TO LEARN: $1,793,000 · HealthWE CARE SOLAR: $314,323 · HealthSOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC: $75,000 · Health+2 more: $30,000 · HealthHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $600,000 · EducationST MONICA ACADEMY INC: $194,000 · EducationMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $178,000 · EducationUCLA FOUNDATION: $80,000 · EducationHarmony Project: $75,000 · EducationHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50,000 · Education'IOLANI SCHOOL: $50,000 · Education+6 more: $123,000 · EducationStella Adler Theatre: $1,032,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $95,000 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $28,000 · Arts & CultureHOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $470,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW SERVICES: $200,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY VILLAGE: $165,000 · Human ServicesAPOPO US INC: $144,000 · Human ServicesALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $50,000 · Human Services+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $300,000 · AnimalsMUTTVILLE: $75,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $60,000 · AnimalsCOMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INC: $50,000 · AnimalsTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POMONA VALLEY INC: $50,000 · AnimalsFixNation Inc: $40,000 · AnimalsPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $25,000 · Animals+4 more: $40,000 · Animals
Other$21,254,425Environment$2,557,090Health$2,212,323Education$1,350,000Arts & Culture$1,205,000Human Services$1,054,000Animals$640,000

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 NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,979,956 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVISION TO LEARN: $1,793,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetStella Adler Theatre: $1,032,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetHARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL: $600,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTREEPEOPLE INC: $574,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLos Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust: $550,174 over 3y, 11% of budgetLOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC: $520,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER: $500,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetHOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION: $470,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY FARM TO SCHOOL: $450,000 over 3y, 53% of budgetThe Childrens Lifesaving Foundation: $450,000 over 7y, 36% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $323,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWE CARE SOLAR: $314,323 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLas Familias Del Pueblo: $290,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetLOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $289,000 over 6y, 7.6% of budgetStudents for Eco-Education and Agriculture Inc: $220,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetST MONICA ACADEMY INC: $194,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetMESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $178,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetDIY GIRLS: $169,500 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetVALLEY VILLAGE: $165,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES: $150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAPOPO US INC: $144,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetKHALSA PEACE CORPS: $101,110 over 1y, 49% of budgetEL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS: $100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGAVI ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $95,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUTTVILLE: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHarmony Project: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSOLEDAD ENRICHMENT ACTION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEco Urban Gardens: $71,110 over 2y, 53% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP DEL CORAZON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetEAST-WEST CENTER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ANIMAL MEDICINE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget'IOLANI SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUMANE SOCIETY OF POMONA VALLEY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPUBLIC MEDIA GROUP OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALEXANDRIA HOUSE: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF BALLONA WETLANDS: $40,000 over 4y, 1.8% 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.

  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds VISION TO LEARN ↗
  • Who funds Stella Adler Theatre ↗
  • Who funds HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds TREEPEOPLE INC ↗
  • Who funds Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES ARBORETUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VENTURA COUNTY FARM TO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Childrens Lifesaving Foundation ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
  • Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
  • Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Las Familias Del Pueblo ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds Students for Eco-Education and Agriculture Inc ↗
  • Who funds ANTELOPE VALLEY CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ST MONICA ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds MESIVTA OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
  • Who funds APOPO US INC ↗
  • Who funds KHALSA PEACE CORPS ↗
  • Who funds EL NIDO FAMILY CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds COLETTE'S CHILDREN'S HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds GAVI ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS COLLABORATIVE ↗

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.

California Community …The Ralph M Parsons F…The Annenberg Foundat…Sempra FoundationThe Ahmanson Foundati…Orange County Communi…Conrad N Hilton Found…Weingart FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…Lon V Smith FoundationCarrie Estelle Doheny…Baby2baby
California Community FoundationCA39× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Sempra Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Lon V Smith Foundation · Carrie Estelle Doheny Foundation · Baby2baby

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 Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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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    Find your warmest path to Frank McHugh-O'Donovan Foundation Inc 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 97 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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