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O'Meara Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
80
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$2.3MRecreation & Sports$5kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2025 · 80 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k72 grants · $242k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $86k
$3,500
Median grant
19
States reached
$809k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FORDHAM UNIVERSITY$7,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$7,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$6,500
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA$6,000
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH$6,000
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UMASS - AMHERST: $11k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $14k → 16%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $10k → 17%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $25k → 11%UCONN: $96k → 11%EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE: $27k → 12%SALVE REGINA: $10k → 7%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%MIAMI UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $8k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $24k → 11%UCONN: $95k → 11%EASTERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $22k → 12%SALVE REGINA: $9k → 7%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $9k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $20k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $93k → 11%EASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE: $20k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $8k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $17k → 11%UCONN: $92k → 11%EASTERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $18k → 12%COLLEGE OF HOLY CROSS: $8k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $16k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $86k → 11%EASTERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $15k → 11%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $11k → 14%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $11k → 14%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $12k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $11k → 11%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $8k → 14%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $9k → 9%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $17k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $11k → 11%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $14k → 17%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $12k → 17%SOUTHERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $28k → 12%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $9k → 17%SOUTHERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $26k → 12%SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE: $20k → 12%SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE: $19k → 12%SOUTHERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $15k → 12%MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $14k → 11%MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%TUNXIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 109 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
45

Total granted

$2.1M
$101k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+9%

Still filing today

57%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 HARTFORD
    5× · 2021–2025 · $77k · revenue +5%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH
    5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +11%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF RHODE ISLAND
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • PC
    PORTER & CHESTER INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • VT
    VIRGINIA TECH
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Lehigh University

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Dickinson College

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

Education
4
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
5
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
Fairleigh Dickinson University

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…

Education
8
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
9
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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10
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
11
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
12
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University; 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.
04the grantee network

87 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. 87 of the 172 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
86/87
Grantees still filing
68/87
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UCONN: $282,450 · OtherUCONNUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $179,250 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY: $154,500 · OtherCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITYCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE: $70,250 · OtherSOUTHERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $68,500 · OtherEASTERN CT ST UNIVERSITY: $49,000 · Other+85 more: $576,864 · Other+85 moreUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $77,250 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $74,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPHSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $57,750 · EducationSPRINGFIELD COLLEGENORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $46,000 · EducationFairfield University: $35,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $33,500 · Education+73 more: $556,250 · Education+73 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,000 · Community ImprovementNorthwestern University: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,380,814Education$880,250Community Improvement$7,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $77,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $74,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $57,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $46,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $33,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $25,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE: $15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCedarville University: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE: $13,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY: $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS: $12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL COLLEGE: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIBERTY UNIVERSITY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRivier University: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOberlin College: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLA UNIVERSITY INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwestern University: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNICHOLS COLLEGE: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Cedarville University ↗
  • Who funds Spelman College ↗
  • Who funds FRANCISCAN UNIVERSITY OF STEUBENVILLE ↗
  • Who funds Fordham University ↗
  • Who funds ST BONAVENTURE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Davis Educational Fou…Ralph & Helen Kelley …National Collegiate A…Angela M Zampogna Sch…Miller Ua Morey & Hel…Fidelity FoundationThe George I Alden Tr…Ibm International Fou…Albert H & Reuben S S…Council of Independen…Michael & Susan Dell …Enterprise Holdings F…
Davis Educational FoundationME28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization O'Meara Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from O'Meara Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 172 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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By state
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