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O'Connor Family Foundation at a glance

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O'Connor Family Foundation

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.

$207k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$651kReligion$371kEducation$254kEnvironment$113kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kArts & Culture$83kHuman Services$61kRecreation & Sports$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$85,000
THE BUCKLEY SCHOOL$25,000
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL$20,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES SECOND CENTURY FUND$20,000
NORTH PARK HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$10,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERIN CANCER CENTER$9,000
NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$6,000
AUTISM SPEAKS$5,000
THE ALFRED E SMITH MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$5,000
NEW CANAAN LIBRARY$5,000
THE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$4,750
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY$3,500
COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS$2,500
THE TAFT SCHOOL$1,000
PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER$1,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Graham Windham: $750 → 20%GRAHAM-WINDHAM: $500 → 20%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $1k → 9%GRAHAM-WINDHAM: $500 → 20%GRAHAM-WINDHAM: $250 → 20%SNACK & FRIENDS INC: $5k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MT
IL
NY
MA
IA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$621k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
51

Total granted

$1.4M
$581k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+22%

Still filing today

55%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • BS
    BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $67k · revenue +39%
  • HM
    HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC
    2× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +150%
  • TB
    THE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • LH
    Lawrence Hospital Center
    one grant, 2017 · $126k
  • CR
    CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TC
    The Cardinal's Annual Appeal
    one grant, 2017 · $95k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
11
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

54 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. 54 of the 89 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/54
Grantees still filing
43/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $315,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNewYork-PresbyterianLawrence Hospital: $251,350 · OtherNewYork-PresbyterianLawrence HospitalCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK: $232,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORKLawrence Hospital Center: $125,500 · OtherLawrence Hospital CenterCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $100,000 · OtherCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESThe Cardinal's Annual Appeal: $95,000 · OtherThe Cardinal's Annual Appeal+43 more: $346,158 · Other+43 moreAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $205,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN H…COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $10,000 · Health+3 more: $2,500 · HealthBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $66,668 · EducationWilliams College: $19,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $13,500 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $11,750 · Education+15 more: $18,150 · EducationALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $102,000 · EnvironmentNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $6,750 · Environment+2 more: $3,500 · EnvironmentHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $52,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $22,250 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,250 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $3,500 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $1,900 · Philanthropy+1 more: $1,000 · PhilanthropyADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsNORTH PARK HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,465,508Health$252,500Education$129,068Environment$112,250Arts & Culture$52,750Philanthropy$45,900Recreation & Sports$24,000

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 budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $205,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $102,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC: $66,668 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $52,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $22,250 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWilliams College: $19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $17,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $11,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNORTH PARK HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $6,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSNACK & FRIENDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $2,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetGRAHAM WINDHAM: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $1,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN CARES INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CONNECT CHARITABLE FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAMI National: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPitzer College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSING THRESHOLDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST GEORGE'S SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SKY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Canaan Athletic Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH MOUNTAIN INSTITUTE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds NewYork-PresbyterianLawrence Hospital ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BRONXVILLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH PARK HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds New Canaan Nature Center Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds SNACK & FRIENDS 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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…Synchrony FoundationThe John and Ethel Ka…New Canaan Community …The Ayco Charitable F…Hobbs Family Charitab…Morgan Stanley Global…Fairfield County's Co…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Kristin & Michael Ree…The Schwedel Foundati…
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Synchrony Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Kristin & Michael Reed Family Foundation Inc · The Schwedel Foundation

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 89 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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