Illinois · Private foundation
Michael T O'Donnell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 4
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $903k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Michael T O'Donnell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $90k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $145k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $30k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $62k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $2k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $89k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $83k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $79k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peer Services Inc | $252,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Matthew House Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression | $50,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Legacy Charter School | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| ELWA Ministries Association USA | $21,656 | 5 | 5% |
| Paws Chicago | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Teen Challenge Illinois | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.
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: The Chicago Community Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Michael T O'Donnell Foundation
- How much does Michael T O'Donnell Foundation give?
- Michael T O'Donnell Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Michael T O'Donnell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (52%), Human Services (16%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are Michael T O'Donnell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Peer Services Inc ($253k), Matthew House Inc ($80k), Erikas Lighthouse A Beacon of Hope for Adolescent Depression ($50k).
- Does Michael T O'Donnell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael T O'Donnell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael T O'Donnell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Michael T O'Donnell Foundation based?
- Michael T O'Donnell Foundation is based in IL.
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