Illinois · Private foundation
Mj O'Brien Family Foundation
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.
- $72k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $357k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Mj O'Brien Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 10 | $72k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $79k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $130k | 31% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $74k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $136k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $93k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $96k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $72k | 6% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Misericordia Foundation | $340,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Evanston Scholars | $95,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mitchell Street Arts Collaborative Incorporated | $58,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Night Ministry | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northlight Theatre Inc | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Warren Billy Cherry Scholarship Fund | $13,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Robert Crown Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Misericordia Foundation | $340,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Evanston Scholars | $95,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Mitchell Street Arts Collaborative Incorporated | $58,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Connections for the Homeless Inc | $31,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Night Ministry | $29,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northlight Theatre Inc | $19,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Warren Billy Cherry Scholarship Fund | $13,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Robert Crown Center | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| United Way of Door County Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Malachy School | $7,100 | 2 | n/a |
| Evanston History Center | $3,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Door County Land Trust Inc | $3,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Chicago Food Depository | $2,501 | 3 | 0% |
| Birch Creek Music Performance Center Inc | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Endeavor Health Clinical Operations | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Egg Harbor Firefighters Inc | $1,000 | 2 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($164k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mj O'Brien Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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How this is measured
About Mj O'Brien Family Foundation
- How much does Mj O'Brien Family Foundation give?
- Mj O'Brien Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $71,530 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Mj O'Brien Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (60%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Mj O'Brien Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Misericordia Foundation ($340k), Evanston Scholars ($95k), Mitchell Street Arts Collaborative Incorporated ($58k).
- Does Mj O'Brien Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Mj O'Brien Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Mj O'Brien Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation, Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation.
- Where is Mj O'Brien Family Foundation based?
- Mj O'Brien Family Foundation is based in IL.
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