· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k72 grants · $242k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $86,250 |
| CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE | $27,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $26,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $18,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD | $15,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE | $13,500 |
| UMASS - AMHERST | $11,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $10,500 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $9,500 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY | $6,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH | $6,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA | $6,000 |
| FRANCISCAN UNIV OF STEUBENVILLE | $5,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 15 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +5%- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +11%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLANDone grant, 2021 · $5k
- PCPORTER & CHESTER INSTITUTEone grant, 2021 · $5k
- DUDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY NEW YORKone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 80 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
87 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 87 of the 172 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Cedarville University ↗
- Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Fordham University ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization O'Meara Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- University of Delaware — 25% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 2% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 1% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lasell University — 1% of income from government
- Mitchell College — 1% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 1% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 0% of income from government
- Western New England University — 0% of income from government
- Babson College — 0% of income from government
- Gordon College — 0% of income from government
- Nichols College — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Springfield College — 0% of income from government
- Endicott College — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Bentley University — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.