· Private foundation
James J O'Connell Fund
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $89k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $36,477 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $31,266 |
| PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION | $10,422 |
| DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,422 |
| NEW JERSEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,211 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,211 |
| THE COOPER FOUNDATION | $5,211 |
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 (FY17–24, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TRTHE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $151k · revenue +156%
- SPST PETER'S FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +81%
- PCPRINCETON CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE3× · 2018–2024 · $20k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- PHPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $30k
- PMPRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
- JSJEWISH SOCIAL SERVICE COMMITTEEone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
To support the charitable purposes, programs and services of saint peter's university hospital ("the hospital"); a related internal revenue code section 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, which provides medically necessary healthcare…
The mission of robert wood johnson university hospital is to improve the health and well-being of the patients and communities we serve by fostering an environment of excellence in all areas including the provision of the highest quality,…
The provision of professional medical physician services without regard to ability to pay and in a charitable manner to support the goals and objectives of rwj barnabas health, inc. ("rwj bh") and its affiliates; a tax-exempt integrated…
Cape regional medical center merged with the cooper health system, camden, new jersey (chs) in july of 2024. cooper university hospital cape regional, inc. ("crmc") is a general medical and surgical acute care hospital located in cape may…
The mission of the organization is to transform the health care experience through a culture of caring, quality and innovation. this organization is the philanthropic arm of jefferson health new jersey ("system"). the major goal of the…
To serve as the physician services component of a tax-exempt healthcare delivery network and to thereby promote, support & further the charitable purposes, programs & services of hmh hospitals corp.
See schedule ocooper health system is an integrated health care delivery system serving the southern new jersey region. cooper health system's mission is to serve, to heal, and to educate. cooper accomplishes its mission through innovative…
To support the charitable purposes, programs and services of
The organization is committed to providing the full spectrum of life-enhancing care and services to create and sustain healthy, vibrant communities. please refer to schedule h, part vi, question 5 for the organization's community benefit…
The robert wood johnson university hospital rahway foundation, inc. is a tax-exempt organization that raises funds to support the charitable purposes, programs and services of robert wood johnson university hospital rahway; a related…
The provision of professional medical physician services without regard to ability to pay and in a charitable manner to support the goals and objectives of rwj barnabas health, inc. and its affiliates; a tax-exempt integrated healthcare…
The mission of the cooper university health cape regional, inc. is to continually develop and operate a tax-exempt integrated healthcare delivery system which includes cooper university hospital cape regional, inc.; an internal revenue…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Princeton Healthcare System Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Canavan 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.
11 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. 11 of the 25 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
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 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RWJ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Canavan Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DEBORAH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST PETER'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN WITH CANCER AND BLOOD DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER FOUNDATION 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: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Oceanfirst Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James J O'Connell Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Opportunity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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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