Skip to content

New York · Private foundation

O'Brien Family Charitable Trust

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.

$308k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
Read the full brief
Itemized, FY2025
$120k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$58k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations O'Brien Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Arts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving4$120k50%
FY20241$15k0%
FY20236$166k33%
FY20227$163kn/a
93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Philanthropy$642kFood & Nutrition$150kRecreation & Sports$108kHealth$105kHuman Services$65kEducation$61kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget O'Brien Family Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank: $150,485 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetQuail Valley Charities Inc: $57,421 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetExtra Mile Education Foundation: $50,906 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Pgh: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Pittsburgh: $10,044 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Indian River County Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMindful Moment: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEnvironmental Learning Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

Compare O'Brien Family Charitable Trust with peer funders

About O'Brien Family Charitable Trust

How much does O'Brien Family Charitable Trust give?
O'Brien Family Charitable Trust reported 4 itemized grants totaling $120,000, out of $307,761 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does O'Brien Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (40%), Food & Nutrition (9%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
Who are O'Brien Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank ($150k), Quail Valley Charities Inc ($57k), Extra Mile Education Foundation ($51k).
Does O'Brien Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does O'Brien Family Charitable Trust 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 O'Brien Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is O'Brien Family Charitable Trust based?
O'Brien Family Charitable Trust is based in NY.

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 12 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on O'Brien Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph