· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GREGORIAN SINGERS | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,462 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST | $2,000 |
| LA REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| BOUNTIFUL BASKET FOOD SHELF | $1,029 |
| HIS HOUSE | $1,000 |
| CITY OF HOPE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $1,000 |
| MIRY'S LIST | $1,000 |
| THE GEM PROJECT | $1,000 |
| THE SIERRA CLUB | $1,000 |
| BRADY CAMPAIGN | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 95% of O'Connor Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in MN; by stated purpose, 2%.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LVLAKE VERMILION CULTURAL CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +48%
- WWATERORG6× · 2019–2024 · $9k · revenue +22%
- CTCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- MLMINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUMone grant, 2023 · $8k
- AHALLINA HEALTH SYSTEMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +28%
- RCRED CROSSone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
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Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Inspiring communities to save wildlife for future generations.
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How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 LAKE VERMILION CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds ALLINA HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MIRY'S LIST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MDRC ↗
- Who funds Minnesota Teen Challenge Inc ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GEM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CARVER SCOTT COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
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
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.
- The Gem Project Inc: 27% of income from government
How this is measured
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