· 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.
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 $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EVANSTON SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| EILEEN SHEAHAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $5,030 |
| DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST | $1,500 |
| BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER | $1,000 |
| MCGAW YMCA | $1,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY | $1,000 |
| WARREN CHERRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| THE EGG HARBOR FIREFIGHTERS INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against -55% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue ×44- ESEVANSTON SCHOLARS9× · 2017–2025 · $95k · revenue +85%
- CFCONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $31k · revenue +370%
Funded once
MITCHELL STREET ARTS COLLABORATIVE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue -55%- MMISERICORDIAone grant, 2019 · $50k
- MSMISERICORDIA SIBLINGS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
NORTHWEST COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE follows the mission of Endeavor Health. The mission of Endeavor Health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." Central to this mission is a commitment to providing clinical programs and…
The elmhurst memorial healthcare group follows the mission of endeavor health (f/k/a ns-ee holdings). the mission of endeavor health is to "help everyone in our communities be their best." central to this mission is a commitment to…
Edward-Elmhurst Healthcare follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
Executive Service Corps is the premier nonprofit consultancy that engages highly skilled professionals who use their experience and expertise to provide nonprofits with the consulting services they need to be successful. Our vision is to…
Edward Hospital follows the mission of Endeavor Health to "help everyone in our communities be their best."
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
The Detroit Historical Society tells Detroit's stories and why they matter through its exhibits, programs, outreach, and the preservation and dissemination of its artifacts and collections.
Provide post-secondary education leading to a baccalaureate degree. Program service expenditures are made in conjunction with the operation of a liberal arts college spread over 107 acres with approximately 63 educational and support…
To expand equitable health care and healthy living in Cook County and champion solutions through funding, education and advocacy.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connections for the Homeless Inc and the most unlike its peers is Endeavor Health Clinical Operations. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 33 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 MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds MITCHELL STREET ARTS COLLABORATIVE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONNECTIONS FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NIGHT MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Evanston Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds NORTHLIGHT THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds WARREN BILLY CHERRY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Assoc McGaw Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROBERT CROWN CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DOOR COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds EVANSTON HISTORY CENTER ↗
- Who funds DOOR COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
- Who funds BIRCH CREEK MUSIC PERFORMANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Endeavor Health Clinical Operations ↗
- Who funds Illinois Community for Displaced Immigrants ↗
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 Chicago Community Trust · Lewis-Sebring Family Foundation · Elizabeth Beidler Tisdahl Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Cless Family Foundation · Weatherlow Foundation · The Howard S Dubin Family Foundation · The Kellcie Fund · Evanston Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Northwestern University · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
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 Mj O'Brien Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.