Texas · Private foundation
O'Brien Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $26k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,625
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $524k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations O'Brien Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 14 | $26k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $25k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $26k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $25k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $23k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $23k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $24k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $24k | 7% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hospice of South Texas Inc | $14,000 | 9 | 0% |
| RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC | $12,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Driscoll Children's Hospital | $11,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Halo Flight Inc | $9,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Refugio Isd Education Foundation | $8,500 | 6 | 4% |
| Golden Crescent Habitat for Humanity | $1,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Goliad County Outreach Food Pantry | $1,625 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($163k), 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: Greater Houston Community Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About O'Brien Foundation
- How much does O'Brien Foundation give?
- O'Brien Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $25,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does O'Brien Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (40%), Health (15%), Education (8%).
- Who are O'Brien Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hospice of South Texas Inc ($14k), RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF GREATER NORTH TEXAS INC ($12k), Driscoll Children's Hospital ($11k).
- Does O'Brien Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does O'Brien Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as O'Brien Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Houston Community Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is O'Brien Foundation based?
- O'Brien Foundation is based in TX.
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