· Private foundation
O'Connell Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of O'Connell Family Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Brown University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 11 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year O'Connell Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 10 organizations, $95k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k11 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MVYOUTH | $26,999 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST | $10,850 |
| CARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CARDINAL HAYES HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC | $10,000 |
| THE FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES | $6,000 |
| SAVE OUR SOUND | $5,000 |
| THE DAVID BAUM ENDOWMENT TO SECURE A JEWISH FUTURE | $2,500 |
| MSKCC CYCLE FOR SURVIVAL | $2,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $1,929 |
| BROWN FOOTBALL ANNUAL FUND | $1,284 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| WEST HARLEM ENVIORNMENTAL ACTION (WE ACT) | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against +45% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MYMV YOUTH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $103k · revenue +31%
- PUPESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $35k · revenue +37%
- YOYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +465%
Funded once
- BUBROWN UNIVERSITY DIVISION OF ADVANCEMENTone grant, 2020 · $99k
- VCVESTAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $50k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2020 · $40k
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.
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.
To empower students to develop themselves as critical thinkers, compassionate citizens, and engaged participants in local and world affairs.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 49 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MV YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds PESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds ATHLETE ALLY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FARAJA FUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AUSCHWITZ INSTITUTE FOR THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND MASS ATROCITIES ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLINKNOW FOUNDATION A NJ NONPROFIT ↗
- Who funds Vineyard House Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
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: Swartz Foundation Trust · The Stanton Family Foundation · Spector Family Foundation · Hoerle Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization O'Connell Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from O'Connell Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation: 2% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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