· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| READING PARTNERS TWIN CITIES | $175,000 |
| COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS - CHICAGO | $175,000 |
| TNTP | $175,000 |
| READING PARTNERS | $150,000 |
| RESILIENT COMMUNITIES RESILITIENT FUTURE INC | $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 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- MCMORGRIDGE COLLEGE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $150k
- SISEARCH INSTITUTEone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -50%
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.
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…
How this is measured
182 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. 182 of the 241 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 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 WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEFISH THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds CENTRO TYRONE GUZMAN ↗
- Who funds NORTHSIDE ACHIEVEMENT ZONE ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE CRITTENTON SERVICES OF COLORADO ↗
- Who funds JEFFERSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF HOPE OF NORTHERN COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from I a O'Shaughnessy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
How this is measured
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