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Obrien Fitzpatrick Foundation at a glance

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Obrien Fitzpatrick 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.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$52kEducation$32kHealth$30kEnvironment$27kHuman Services$6kCivil Rights$5kYouth Development$3kAnimals$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$168k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA$5,000
TRHS FOUNDATION$5,000
DES MOINES ART CENTER$5,000
DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS$4,000
BRENTON ARBORETUM$2,000
GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN$1,000
SALISBURY HOUSE$1,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 88% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BRENTON ARBORETUM: $5k → 5%SPIRIT LAKE NORTH WATERSHED PROJECT: $2k → 7%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $20k → 10%YSS: $3k → 17%BRENTON ARBORETUM: $5k → 5%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $6k → 10%BRENTON ARBORETUM: $2k → 5%INTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA: $5k → 10%BRENTON ARBORETUM: $2k → 5%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 10%BRENTON ARBORETUM: $2k → 5%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $2k → 10%BRENTON ARBORETUM: $1k → 5%GREATER DSM PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $4k → 10%DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $4k → 10%DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $4k → 10%DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $4k → 10%DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $4k → 10%IOWA NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%DES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1k → 10%GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 10%GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 10%DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIN: $1k → 10%GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 10%GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $1k → 10%IOWA NATIONAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%CHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%IOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%BLANK PARK ZOO: $500 → 10%CHILD SERVE: $5k → 10%OAK RIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD: $2k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $5k → 10%TRHS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%TRHS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%TRHS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $5k → 10%TRHS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $5k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $5k → 10%TRHS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%DES MOINES ART CENTER: $5k → 10%SALISBURY HOUSE: $1k → 10%SALISBURY HOUSE: $1k → 10%SALISBURY HOUSE: $1k → 10%SALISBURY HOUSE: $1k → 10%SALISBURY HOUSE: $1k → 10%SALISBURY HOUSE: $1k → 10%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.
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132k · 8 repeat orgs$25k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +154% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
10

Total granted

$132k
$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+154%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyEducationCommunity ImprovementAnimalsOther
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

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +15%
  • DM
    DES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +395%
  • BA
    BRENTON ARBORETUM INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • CI
    CHILDSERVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +7%
  • GD
    GREATER DSM PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • Y
    YSS
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
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
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art

To excite, engage and educate through the arts.

Arts & Culture
2
Common Good Iowa

Common good iowa engages iowans to create and advocate for research-based public policy that makes life better and more equitable for all who make iowa home.

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3
Midwest Dairy Association

Midwest dairy works with others to give consumers an excellent dairy experience increasing sales, fostering innovation, and inspiring consumer confidence of dairy products and practices.

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4
Dubuque Museum of Art

To excite, engage & educate constituents through the presentation of collections, exhibitions, and programming; to form mutually beneficial partnerships that will enhance the role of the arts within the community.

Arts & Culture
5
Iowa Medical Society

Our mission is to advance the practice of medicine through advocacy, education, and engagement with physicians throughout iowa to ensure the highest quality of care for the patients they serve.

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6
Denver Botanic Gardens Inc

The mission of denver botanic gardens is to connect people with plants, especially plants from the rocky mountain region and similar regions around the world, providing delight and enlightenment to everyone.

Environment
7
Des Moines Water Works Park Foundation

The des moines water works park foundation is dedicated to developing and executing the master plan created for water works park. the plan turns the park into a national model incorporating recreation, education and conservation within the…

Recreation & Sports
8
Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc

The museum is an educational corporation formed to ignite a life-long passion for exploring, discovering, and valuing nature and science.

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9
Iowa Renewable Fuels Association

To promote the common business interests of member companies without profit and without the inuring of income to the benefit of any member company or individual. to present the executive, legislative, judicial and regulatory bodies…

Community Improvement
10
Greater Des Moines Public Art Foundation

The greater des moines public art foundation places art in public spaces through public and private collaborations.

Arts & Culture
11
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Iowa

The foundation works to defend and promote the constitution of the united states, focusing especially on the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, eighth, and 14th amendments. the foundation also works to defend and promote the constitution of the…

Civil Rights
12
Iowa College Foundation

The foundation is organized to further the growth and development of private colleges and universities of higher education in iowa.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Des Moines Botanical Garden; the most unlike its peers is Brenton Arboretum Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRHS FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherTRHS FOUNDATIONSALISBURY HOUSE: $6,000 · OtherSALISBURY HOUSECHILDSERVE INC: $5,000 · OtherCHILDSERVE INCGREATER DSM PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherGREATER DSM PUBLIC ART FOUNDATIONYSS: $3,000 · OtherYSS+3 more: $3,500 · Other+3 moreEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $25,000 · Arts & CultureEdmundson Art Foundation IncBRENTON ARBORETUM INC: $17,250 · Arts & CultureBRENTON ARBORETUM INC+1 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $31,000 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDES MOINES PER…GREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $4,000 · EnvironmentIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 · EnvironmentINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA: $5,000 · ReligionDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $500 · Animals
Other$47,500Arts & Culture$43,500Education$31,000Community Improvement$20,000Environment$8,000Religion$5,000Philanthropy$1,500Animals$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEdmundson Art Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDES MOINES PERFORMING ARTS: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTON ARBORETUM INC: $17,250 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDSERVE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF IOWA: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER DES MOINES BOTANICAL GARDEN: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIOWA NATURAL HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA PBS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRYSALIS FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLANK PARK ZOO FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 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.

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.

Bookey Family Foundat…Meredith Corporation …John H & Ann Ghrist F…Brenton FoundationJohn Ruan Foundation …Mary K and Daniel M K…EMC Insurance Foundat…The Merchants Bonding…Community Fdn of Grea…Windsor Charitable Fo…Burnett Family Founda…The Levitt Foundation
Bookey Family FoundationIA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bookey Family Foundation · Meredith Corporation Foundation · John H & Ann Ghrist Family Foundation · Brenton Foundation · John Ruan Foundation Trust · Mary K and Daniel M Kelly Family Foundation C/O Dan Kelly · EMC Insurance Foundation · The Merchants Bonding Company Foundation · Community Fdn of Greater Des Moines F/K/A Greater Des Moines Community Fdn · Windsor Charitable Foundation · Burnett Family Foundation · The Levitt 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 Obrien Fitzpatrick Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Obrien Fitzpatrick Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Obrien Fitzpatrick Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Obrien Fitzpatrick 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.

    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 19 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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