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Gildea-O'Keefe Foundation at a glance

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Gildea-O'Keefe Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$164k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$164k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Health$1.1MEducation$111kRecreation & Sports$5kReligion$1kHousing & Shelter$1kEnvironment$200Human Services$150
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$164,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCLEAN HOSPITAL$164,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOOL: $5k → 7%THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST: $200 → 8%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $170k → 8%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%NEW ENGLAND BUDDIST VIHARA & MEDITATION CENTER: $300 → 11%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $5k → 17%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 7%YMCA CAMP CONISTON: $5k → 10%THE PLYMOUTH HOUSE: $1k → 10%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOOL: $5k → 7%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE LIGHTKEEPERS: $5k → 8%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $164k → 8%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $28k → 7%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOOL: $5k → 7%WELLSTRONG: $3k → 8%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $145k → 8%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $10k → 7%BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $5k → 7%CAPE COD CENTER FOR WOMEN: $150 → 8%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $135k → 8%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $8k → 7%BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOOL: $2k → 7%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $130k → 8%LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 7%FIRST PARISH OF NEEDHAM: $700 → 7%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $128k → 8%BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $1k → 7%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $123k → 8%MCLEAN HOSPITAL: $101k → 8%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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 4 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
11

Total granted

$1.2M
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+65%

Still filing today

50%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M
  • LU
    LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $78k
  • TB
    THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $17k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • YC
    YMCA CAMP CONISTON
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • NY
    New York Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +45%
  • CC
    CAPE COD HEALTHCARE LIGHTKEEPERS
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Cambridge College Inc

To provide academically excellent, time-efficient and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied.

Education
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
Becker College

Becker college serves 1700 students from 35 states and 15 countries and offers over 30 bachelor degree programs, 6 associate degree programs, and 2 masters degree programs in unique, high-demand career niches ranging from nursing and…

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11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Beaver Country Day School Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

8 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. 8 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,095,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $77,700 · OtherLAWRENCE UNIVERSITY+6 more: $12,850 · OtherTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $17,000 · EducationBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $6,300 · EducationNew York University: $5,000 · EducationSalem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc: $5,000 · EducationWELLSTRONG INC: $2,500 · HealthNEW ENGLAND BUDDHIST VIHARA &MEDITATION CENTER: $300 · ReligionTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC: $200 · Environment
Other$1,186,050Education$33,300Health$2,500Religion$300Environment$200

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 BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $6,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSTRONG INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD CENTER FOR WOMEN INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Gildea-O'Keefe Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gildea-O'Keefe Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    5get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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