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O'Brien Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% 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
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $120,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $307,761 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $187,761 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catholic Charities of The Diocese of Pittsburgh$50,000
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank$50,000
Quail Valley Charities Inc$15,000
Enviromental Learning Center Inc$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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Catholic Charities of The Diocese of Pittsburgh: $50k → 11%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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$359k · 4 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$359k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+32%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GP
    GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    3× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +33%
  • QV
    QUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $57k · revenue +9%
  • EM
    EXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $51k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CC
    Catholic Charities Diocese of Pittsburgh
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +11%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +78%
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
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
2
John Carroll University

As a jesuit catholic university committed to academic rigor, inclusive excellence, and care for the whole person, john carroll university inspires individuals of intellect and character to learn, lead and serve in the community and…

Education
3
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
4
Chatham University

Chatham university prepares women and men to be world ready: to build lives of purpose and value and fulfilling work. (see continuation on schedule o)in addition to appropriate professional skills and liberal arts learning, chatham…

Education
5
Elizabethtown College

Provide a transformative educational experience that cultivates strengths of its students.

Education
6
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
7
Collegium Institute

Collegium Institute is a Catholic intellectual apostolate that fosters the Catholic intellectual tradition within the University of Pennsylvania community and within the greater region and secular academia. (Continued on Sch. O)

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8
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
9
Saint John's University

To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.

—
10
Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit

Duquesne serves god by serving students-through commitment to excellence in liberal and professional education, through profound concern for moral and spiritual values, through the maintenance of an ecumenical atmosphere open to diversity,…

Education
11
La Roche University

La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.

Education
12
Saint Michael's College

It is the mission of saint michael's college to contribute through higher education to the enhancement of the human person and to the advancement of human culture in the light of the catholic faith.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Indian River County Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mindful Moment. 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $150,485 · Food & NutritionGREATER PITTSBURGH COMMUNITY FOOD…Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital Foundation: $100,453 · OtherCleveland Clinic Indian Ri…Catholic Charities Diocese of Pittsburgh: $15,000 · OtherCatholic Charities Diocese…VNA & Hospice Foundation Inc: $5,000 · OtherEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $50,906 · EducationEXTRA MILE EDUCATION FOU…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $50,565 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame…UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $10,044 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHQUAIL VALLEY CHARITIES INC: $57,421 · PhilanthropyQUAIL VALLEY C…UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF …CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF PGH: $50,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CH…MINDFUL MOMENT: $10,000 · Arts & CultureENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTER INC: $5,000 · Environment
Food & Nutrition$150,485Other$120,453Education$111,515Philanthropy$67,421Human Services$50,000Arts & Culture$10,000Environment$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 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 budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $50,565 over 2y, 0.0% 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
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.

The Ayco Charitable F…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 O'Brien Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from O'Brien Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • United Way of Indian River County Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
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.

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.

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