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Henry L OBrien Foundation Inc

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.4M
Granted FY2021
12
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Health$571kEducation$410kReligion$355kArts & Culture$259kRecreation & Sports$29kPublic Safety & Disaster$21kHuman Services$9kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2021 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $575k
  • $250k+3 grants · $750k
$135,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$250,000
WESTHAMPTON BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY$250,000
EAST END HOSPICE INC$250,000
WESTOVER SCHOOL$210,000
PECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$180,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$135,000
BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FOUNDATION$50,000
CHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT$25,000
STANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH$20,000
FRIENDS OF WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE$20,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF FLORIDA$20,000
WESTHAMPTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$15,000
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 (FY17–21, $280k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $250k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $10k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $10k → 7%EAST END HOSPICE INC: $10k → 7%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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 26 repeat orgs$234k to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2021, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
5

Total granted

$1.4M
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+85%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • EE
    East End Hospice Inc
    4× · 2017–2021 · $280k · revenue +38%
  • TG
    THE GREATER WESTHAMPTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM
    5× · 2017–2021 · $255k · revenue +269%
  • WS
    WESTOVER SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $231k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
  • TI
    THE ISLAND SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +85%
  • RP
    ROYAL PALM PLAYERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +30%
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
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
South Shore Hospital Inc

South shore hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide health care services to the community including surgical, medical and other treatment of the sick and injured. south shore health system has an overarching mission for every…

Health
4
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Peconic Public Broadcasting

Peconic Public Broadcasting is a public FM radio station located in Southampton, New York. The station services Long Island and coastal Connecticut and offers listeners both national and local programs.

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6
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

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8
Hospice Foundation of Palm Beach County

Palm beach island hospice foundation was established exclusively to support the programs, services and activities which further comprehensive hospice care in palm beach county, florida through its fundraising efforts.

Human Services
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
The Hospice Institute of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice institute is now inactive.

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11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southampton Hospital Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $267,500 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $180,000 · OtherPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CNTR FDN: $37,000 · OtherPECONIC BAY MEDICAL CNTR FDNCHURCH OF THE ATONEMENT: $35,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE ATONEMENTSTANDREWS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherWESTHAMPTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $22,500 · Other+15 more: $66,000 · Other+15 moreWESTOVER SCHOOL INC: $230,750 · EducationWESTOVER SCHOOL INCCornell University: $171,250 · EducationCornell University+2 more: $6,000 · EducationEast End Hospice Inc: $280,000 · Human ServicesEast End Hospice I…THE GREATER WESTHAMPTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $255,250 · Arts & CultureTHE GREATER WESTH…+2 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropySPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $24,000 · Recreation & SportsBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $12,500 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Health
Other$638,000Education$408,000Human Services$280,000Arts & Culture$256,750Philanthropy$50,000Recreation & Sports$24,000Health$14,500

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 budgetEast End Hospice Inc: $280,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GREATER WESTHAMPTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $255,250 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetWESTOVER SCHOOL INC: $230,750 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCornell University: $171,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE INC: $21,250 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOVELAND CENTER INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL ATHLETE BOOSTERS INC: $4,500 over 3y, 45% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPECONIC LAND TRUST INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ISLAND SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPURNELL SCHOOL: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL PALM PLAYERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% 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 East End Hospice Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE GREATER WESTHAMPTON HISTORICAL MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WESTHAMPTON AMBULANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds LOVELAND CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DEAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL ATHLETE BOOSTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds PURNELL SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL PALM PLAYERS 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.

Gulf Coast Community Foundation IncFL17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Cruz Family Foundation Inc · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Sweet Peas Foundation · The George and Carol Milne Foundation · Tua the Anne Potter Wilson Fdn · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Gerald M & Carole a Miller Family Foundation · Akron Community Foundation · Lilly Endowment Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Henry L OBrien Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry L OBrien Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Dean College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
5report 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 33 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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