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I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k68 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k32 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $856k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE - CITY CONNECTS | $306,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $250,000 |
| TNTP | $175,000 |
| READING PARTNERS TWIN CITIES | $175,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS - CHICAGO | $175,000 |
| RESILIENT COMMUNITIES RESILITIENT FUTURE INC | $150,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $150,000 |
| BOYS HOPE GIRLS HOPE OF ILLINOIS INC | $140,000 |
| OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH | $140,000 |
| 29 ACRES | $96,970 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $96,970 |
| BABY'S SPACE | $92,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME DU LAC | $91,970 |
| FLORENCE CRITTENTON | $85,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 56 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- MTMONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +51%
- PFPHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC5× · 2019–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +141% · 33% of their budget
- SPStrive Preparatory Schools4× · 2020–2023 · $958k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- ACASCENSION CATHOLIC ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $158k
- CRCRISTO REY NETWORKone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue -31%
- NCNATIONAL CENTER FOR TEACHER RESIDENCIESone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
The chicago public education fund (the fund) is a nonprofit organization that improves public schools in chicago by investing in the talented educators who lead them.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the university nursery school is to prepare the children in our community for a successful and fulfilling future throughout their education and beyond. we strive daily to provide loving care, as well as high quality and…
The center for early education, a socio-economically and culturally diverse independent school for children, toddlers through grade six, strives to graduate students who are joyful, resilient, lifelong learners. the center embraces a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Timothy P O'shaughnessy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
182 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 182 of the 241 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds MONTESSORI TRAINING CENTER OF MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS FUNDAMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds Strive Preparatory Schools ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds 29 ACRES INC ↗
- Who funds FLATHEAD VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTRY SCHOOL MONTESSORI LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ↗
- Who funds MINNESOTA COMEBACK ↗
- Who funds University of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds SEWALL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds Resilient Communities Resilient Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds JAWAAHIR DANCE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Family Engagement Lab ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES & COMMUNITY SERV OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation · The Denver Foundation · Anschutz Family Foundation · Rose Community Foundation · The Colorado Health Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · Mortenson Family Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · The Anschutz Foundation · Jefferson Community Foundation · The McKnight Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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