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Mary K O'Neill Foundation Inc

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.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$120kHuman Services$119kPhilanthropy$80kHousing & Shelter$60kYouth Development$55kFood & Nutrition$32kHealth$27kMembership Benefit$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION$20,000
JEMICY SCHOOL$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARFORD COUNTY$10,000
THE LEGACY SCHOOL$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
INNER COUNTY OUTREACH$10,000
HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE$10,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSP$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $30k → 7%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $25k → 7%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $20k → 7%SANTA CLAUS ANONYMOUS: $2k → 11%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $10k → 7%INNER COUNTY OUTREACH: $3k → 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$506k · 13 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$506k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+247%

Still filing today

77%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHealthFood & NutritionMembership BenefitOther
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

  • IC
    INNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $98k · revenue +103%
  • KK
    KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +10%
  • HF
    HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO BALT
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • UH
    UCCA - HUMANITARIAN AID FOR UKRAINE
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SS
    STUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +247%
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
The Maryland School for the Blind

As a statewide resource center, the school provides outreach, educational and residential services for students to reach their fullest potential by preparing them to be as successful, independent, and well-rounded contributing members of…

Education
2
The Mclean School of Maryland Inc

Mclean school's small classes and abilities model prepare bright students in kindergarten through twelfth grade, including those with dyslexia, anxiety, and attention issues, for college success.

Education
3
Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc

See schedule othe marine corps scholarship foundation is the nation's oldest and largest provider of need-based scholarships to military children. founded in 1962, the marine corps scholarship foundation provides access to education for…

Education
4
St Marys Healthcare System for Children Inc

To serve as the sole member of the various health care and supporting organizations that comprise st. mary's healthcare system for children

Health
5
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Greater Washongton Dc Inc

Ronald mcdonald house charities of greater washington, dc (rmhcdc) provides essential services that remove barriers, strengthen families, and promote healing when children need healthcare.

Health
6
The Lieber Institute Inc

The mission of the institute is to translate basic genetic and molecular mechanisms of schizophrenia and related developmental brain disorders into clinical advances that change the lives of affected individuals. it is catalyzing a new…

Health
7
St Marys Hospital for Children Inc

St. mary's hospital for children ("smh"), the flagship of st. mary's healthcare system for children, is committed to improving the health and quality of life for children and young adults with special healthcare needs. a nationally…

Health
8
The Children's Guild Inc

To teach children the values and life skills necessary for a successful life, one filled with caring, contribution and commitment, empowering each child with: the vision to see opportunity within adversity and the value of setting ideals…

Human Services
9
Children's Scholarship Fund Baltimore

Csfb awards kindergarten to 8th grade scholarships to low income baltimore city families without regard to gender, race, grades or test scores, ethnicity or religious belief.

Education
10
Merakey Childrens Services

Provide behavioral health services to children and their families. the range of services include case management, outpatient, in school, community based and wrap around services.

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11
Maryland Independent College & University Association Inc

Serving the interests of independent higher education and supporting the work of campus leaders throughout the state of maryland.

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12
The Seed School of Maryland

The seed school of maryland (seed maryland) is a statewide, public, college-preparatory boarding school offering an extraordinary learning and living experience in preparation for college and beyond. the maryland general assembly passed…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Toys for Tots Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Inner County Outreach 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

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 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC: $60,000 · OtherHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC: $40,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNT…UNIV OF MD SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY: $35,000 · OtherUNIV OF MD SCHOOL OF DENTISTRYIndividual grant recipient: $27,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $27,000 · OtherTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO BALT: $15,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF METRO BALTRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES: $12,500 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESUCCA - HUMANITARIAN AID FOR UKRAINE: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $7,000 · OtherINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $97,500 · Human ServicesINNER COUNTY OUTREACH …American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesTHE LEGACY SCHOOL: $55,000 · EducationTHE LEGACY SCHOOLTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE JEMICY SCHOOL…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TU…KENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyKENNEDY KRIEGER …MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,500 · PhilanthropyMARINE TOYS FOR …ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $27,000 · HealthMASONIC CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $20,000 · Membership BenefitSTUDENT SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$233,500Human Services$109,500Education$85,000Philanthropy$79,500Health$27,000Membership Benefit$20,000Food & Nutrition$5,000

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 budgetINNER COUNTY OUTREACH INC: $97,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetKENNEDY KRIEGER FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARFORD FAMILY HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LEGACY SCHOOL: $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARFORD AND CECIL COUNTIES INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC: $27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEMICY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASONIC CHARITIES OF MARYLAND INC: $20,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CLAUS ANONYMOUS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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.

Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation IncMD17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Herman & Walter Samuelson Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Louis & Phyllis Friedman Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Mary K O'Neill Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary K O'Neill Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Harford Family House Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Mary K O'Neill Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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