· Private foundation
O'Connell Private Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k14 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAR HOUSE | $20,500 |
| LEVITY PROJECT QUITO | $2,515 |
| RECREATION UNLIMITED | $2,400 |
| FLYING HORSE FARMS | $1,500 |
| MID OHIO FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| BALLET MET | $1,500 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS | $1,500 |
| ST URSULA ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| HEART TO HEART | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| DAVID'S EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY FD | $750 |
| SISTERS OF LIFE | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| KIAWAH CONSERVANCY | $150 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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 +43% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- SHSTAR HOUSE5× · 2017–2021 · $76k · revenue +306%
- FHFLYING HORSE FARMS5× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +31%
- BMBALLET METROPOLITAN INC5× · 2017–2021 · $8k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- TCTHE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -98%
- TBTHE BRIDGE FUNDone grant, 2019 · $2k
- CMCOLUMBUS METRO LIBRARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To improve the health of those we serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Caring for life, researching for health and educating those who serve.
Improve the health of our community and create patient value by providing exceptional outcomes and the finest experiences, all in an affordable way.
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The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Ohio capital finance corporation provides flexible financing products and utilizes partnerships for the expansion and preservation of afforable housing to advance community development while ensuring that all residents regardless of income…
Nationwide children's hospital's mission is committed to best outcomes and health equity for all children, ensuring every child has access to the best care regardless of their ability to pay. upon this fundamental belief, nch is committed…
Emory University's mission is to create, preserve, teach, and apply knowledge in the service of humanity. (See Schedule O for continuation)
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Breakthrough t1d is the leading global t1d organization working to accelerate life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat t1d and its complications.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Flying Horse Farms and the most unlike its peers is The Center for Working Families Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 33 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 STAR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FLYING HORSE FARMS ↗
- Who funds BALLET METROPOLITAN INC ↗
- Who funds Mid-Ohio Foodbank ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds DAVIDS EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO CANCER RESEARCH ASSOCIATES ↗
- Who funds GLADDEN COMMUNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF CINCINNATI INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Kiawah Island Natural Habitat Conservancy Inc ↗
- Who funds BEXLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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: Columbus Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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'Connell Private Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.