· Private foundation
Marlene and William O'Meara Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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, FY2020 to 2023.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $117k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLYMOUTH PLACE | $117,437 |
| CASA CORNELIA LAW CENTER | $40,000 |
| EFAA | $18,192 |
| WATTS OF LOVE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WELLNESS HOUSE | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO | $10,000 |
| LA RABIDA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $9,440 |
| ST JOHN OF THE CROSS CHURCH | $100 |
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 (FY20–23, $276k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
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 80% of Marlene and William O'Meara Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in IL; by stated purpose, 19%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- PPPLYMOUTH PLACE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $258k · revenue +21%
- CCCasa Cornelia Legal Services3× · 2020–2023 · $42k · revenue +60%
- LCLORAS COLLEGE2× · 2020–2021 · $1k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- LMLAGRANGE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIone grant, 2020 · $1k
- AHAMITA HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $1k
- LHLEO HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $100
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.
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Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
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How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 30 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
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 PLYMOUTH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Wellness House ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago ↗
- Who funds WATTS OF LOVE ↗
- Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds LORAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Clarke University of Dubuque Iowa ↗
- Who funds THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds PILLARS COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds WORD ON FIRE CATHOLIC MINISTRIES ↗
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: AbbVie Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marlene and William O'Meara Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marlene and William O'Meara Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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