Texas · Private foundation
O'Donnell Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $187M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $38,350,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $195M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations O'Donnell Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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 | 32 | $186M | 69% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $31M | 40% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $34M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $106M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $7.6M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern Methodist University | $46,400,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Dallas College Foundation Inc | $38,350,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dallas Symphony Association | $32,276,443 | 6 | 27% |
| Dallas Museum of Art | $11,422,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Perot Museum of Nature & Science | $10,000,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Southwestern Medical Foundation | $5,750,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Dallas Opera | $4,750,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Texas Academy of Medicine Engineering Science and Technology | $2,180,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Housing Forward | $2,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute for Texas | $1,750,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 27 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($202M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
O'Donnell Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Texas Instruments Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · The Dallas Foundation · Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation · Hirsch Family Foundation · Boone Family Foundation · George & Fay Young Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · The Rose Family Foundation
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to O'Donnell Foundation?
Find your warmest path to O'Donnell Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About O'Donnell Foundation
- How much does O'Donnell Foundation give?
- O'Donnell Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $187,386,895 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does O'Donnell Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (38%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are O'Donnell Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Southern Methodist University ($46M), Dallas College Foundation Inc ($38M), Dallas Symphony Association ($32M).
- Does O'Donnell Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does O'Donnell Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as O'Donnell Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Texas Instruments Foundation, The Addy Foundation, Meadows Foundation Inc.
- Where is O'Donnell Foundation based?
- O'Donnell Foundation is based in TX.
Play a game based on O'Donnell’s filings →