Minnesota · Private foundation
O'Connor Family 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.
- $32k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 29
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $715k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations O'Connor Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 27 | $32k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $38k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $36k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $24k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $16k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $21k | 29% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $25k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 18 | $21k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregorian Singers | $57,550 | 7 | n/a |
| Lake Vermilion Cultural Center | $11,205 | 8 | 3% |
| Waterorg | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Allina Health System | $6,513 | 1 | 0% |
| Sierra Club | $5,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Committee to Protect Journalists Inc | $5,600 | 8 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $4,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Miry's List | $4,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Griffith Park | $3,800 | 7 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregorian Singers | $57,550 | 7 | n/a |
| Lake Vermilion Cultural Center | $11,205 | 8 | 3% |
| Waterorg | $8,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Allina Health System | $6,513 | 1 | 0% |
| Sierra Club | $5,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Committee to Protect Journalists Inc | $5,600 | 8 | 0% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $4,250 | 7 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Miry's List | $4,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Friends of Griffith Park | $3,800 | 7 | 1% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,650 | 6 | 0% |
| Band of Brothers | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Trinity Church | $3,300 | 2 | n/a |
| California Fire Foundation | $3,050 | 7 | 0% |
| Mdrc | $2,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc | $2,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Gem Project Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Carver Scott County Humane Society | $1,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Eastern Carver County Schools | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Helping Paws Inc | $450 | 3 | 0% |
| The People Concern | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| When We All Vote | $250 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget O'Connor Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About O'Connor Family Foundation
- How much does O'Connor Family Foundation give?
- O'Connor Family Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $32,046 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does O'Connor Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (34%), Environment (10%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
- Who are O'Connor Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Gregorian Singers ($58k), Lake Vermilion Cultural Center ($11k), Waterorg ($9k).
- Does O'Connor Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does O'Connor Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as O'Connor Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is O'Connor Family Foundation based?
- O'Connor Family Foundation is based in MN.
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