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O'Bryan 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 $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $94k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER | $50,000 |
| PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE | $40,000 |
| EAST TROY FOOD PANTRY INC | $27,000 |
| MUKWONAGO FOOD PANTRY | $27,000 |
| RELEVANT RADIO | $5,000 |
| WOMENS CENTER OF GREATER CHICAGOLAND | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $91k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
24 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 18 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
- AAANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER9× · 2017–2025 · $514k · revenue +45%
- ETEAST TROY FOOD PANTRY INC8× · 2018–2025 · $161k · revenue +28% · 60% of their budget
- AFANA'S FRIENDS INC4× · 2017–2021 · $114k · revenue +261%
Funded once
- NPNATIONAL PERSONHOOD ALLIANCE EDUCATIONAL TRUST FUNone grant, 2021 · $140k
- NPNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTone grant, 2020 · $100k
- CLCHERISH LIFE IRELAND INCone grant, 2018 · $60k
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.
To honor and glorify jesus christ, the author and creator of life, by bringing his love and compassion to abortion-minded women and equipping them to choose life - both physical and spiritual.
To provide pregnancy support, medical information, pregnancy testing, limited obstetrical ultrasound, and parenting instruction for individuals confronted with an unexpected pregnancy. Our care for women is given, all to the Glory of God!
To educate the public about abortion
To share the truth and compassion of jesus christ, support life-affirming choices and promote healthy relationships by serving and caring for women and families in pregnancy-related circumstances
Bsideu for life is committed to presenting the gospel of our lord in word and deed by educating women facing crisis pregnancies, responding to their needs and protecting the lives of unborn children.bsideu for life also equips mothers and…
Catholics for Choice - which serves the pro-choice Catholic majority - encounters, educates, and emboldens people of faith who support reproductive freedom. Catholics for Choice believes healthcare is a human right and that includes access…
Mission is to provide women facing an unplanned pregnancy with truthful medical information and education. we are faith-based with a mission to encourage, through education and outreach, the recognition of human life from the moment of…
The organization provides women in crisis pregnancies alternatives to abortion, regardless of their religion, race or position in life and to help them come to a decision they and their babies can live the rest of their lives.
Defend the right to life of all citizens of our state, whether born or preborn, young, old, disabled, or terminally ill. we affirm that the right to life exists at the moment of fertilization and extends until natural death.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Offer life-affirming choices for pregnancy and sexual health.
None
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Illinois Shorthair Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
29 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. 29 of the 44 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 ANDERSON ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds National Personhood Alliance Educational Trust Fund ↗
- Who funds MUKWONAGO FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds EAST TROY FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PRO-LIFE ACTION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ANA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds Save the Storks ↗
- Who funds OVARIAN CANCER SYMPTOM AWARENESS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds IMMACULATE HEART MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN PAUL II MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WOMENS CENTER OF GREATER CHICAGOLAND INC ↗
- Who funds DEKALB COUNTY ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds 40 DAYS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOPHIA INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ILLINOIS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Golden Retriever Rescue of Southwest Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CAREIN CONNECTIONS UNLIMITED NFP ↗
- Who funds BIBLE STUDY FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds The United Way of Lee County Inc ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS SHORTHAIR RESCUE ↗
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: Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Verizon Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc
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 O'Bryan 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.
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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