Connecticut · Private foundation
O'Meara Foundation Inc
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.
- $450k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 80
- Grants FY2025
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $86,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 80
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $809k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations O'Meara Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 55% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $239k 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 | 80 | $450k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 80 | $433k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 72 | $512k | 28% |
| FY2022 | 80 | $472k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 77 | $392k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of Hartford | $77,250 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Saint Joseph | $74,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Springfield College | $57,750 | 5 | 0% |
| Northeastern University | $46,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Fairfield University | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Providence College | $33,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Assumption University | $27,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Bryant University | $27,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Howard University | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Western New England University | $25,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 91 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 78 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget O'Meara Foundation Inc 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: Davis Educational Foundation · Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Angela M Zampogna Scholarship Fund · Miller Ua Morey & Helen Schol · Fidelity Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Ibm International Foundation · Albert H & Reuben S Stone Fund · Council of Independent Colleges · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation
How this is measured
About O'Meara Foundation Inc
- How much does O'Meara Foundation Inc give?
- O'Meara Foundation Inc reported 80 grants totaling $450,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 80 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does O'Meara Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%), Recreation & Sports (0%), Community Improvement (0%).
- Who are O'Meara Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: University of Hartford ($77k), University of Saint Joseph ($75k), Springfield College ($58k).
- Does O'Meara Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does O'Meara Foundation Inc 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'Meara Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Davis Educational Foundation, Ralph & Helen Kelley Fdn, National Collegiate Athletic Association.
- Where is O'Meara Foundation Inc based?
- O'Meara Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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