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Pat & Neil O'Brien 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.

$85k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
17%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,400
Largest grant, FY2025
$13,800
Organizations funded a year
16 to 32
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
7
Total assets, FY2025
$676k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$85k17%
FY202418$69k17%
FY202320$55k10%
FY202216$59k0%
FY202124$54k8%
FY202032$38k31%
FY201927$40k15%
FY201831$41k32%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$170kPhilanthropy$121kReligion$91kHuman Services$35kEmployment$34kHealth$33kHousing & Shelter$14kArts & Culture$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Catholic Foundation$98,1509n/a
My Possibilities$34,10090%
Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc$31,77590%
Diocese of Dallas$27,3633n/a
Cristo Rey$12,1758n/a
The Cooper Institute$8,60061%
Bridge Steps$7,00070%
Academy of Homiletics$7,0001n/a
The Bridge Breast Network Inc$6,00060%
Catch Up & Read Inc$5,50040%
Show all 35 grantees
All grantees of Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Catholic Foundation$98,1509n/a
My Possibilities$34,10090%
Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc$31,77590%
Diocese of Dallas$27,3633n/a
Cristo Rey$12,1758n/a
The Cooper Institute$8,60061%
Bridge Steps$7,00070%
Academy of Homiletics$7,0001n/a
The Bridge Breast Network Inc$6,00060%
Catch Up & Read Inc$5,50040%
St Monica Catholic School$3,5002n/a
Southern Methodist University$3,30070%
Kipp Nashville$3,25030%
Broadway Dallas Inc$3,00030%
Club for Growth Foundation Inc$3,0001n/a
Childcaregroup$3,00030%
Georgetown University$2,40080%
St Peter's Parish$2,3754n/a
William Marsh Rice University$2,00020%
Incarnate Word Academy$1,8001n/a
North Texas Food Bank$1,00010%
Big Thought$1,00010%
Second Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana$1,00020%
Hunters Bend Elementary School PTO$1,00011%
Momentous Institute$60020%
Hockaday School$57520%
The Teaching Trust$50010%
The Pines Education Group dba The Pines Catholic Camp$50010%
Holy Trinity Catholic School$5002n/a
Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio$42510%
Children's Health System of Texas$10010%
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum$10010%
St Jude Chapel$751n/a
Church of the Incarnation$751n/a
Grace Bible Church$501n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($219k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMy Possibilities: $34,100 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Charities of Dallas Inc: $31,775 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cooper Institute: $8,600 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBridge Steps: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge Breast Network Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCatch Up & Read Inc: $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $3,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKipp Nashville: $3,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Dallas Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildcaregroup: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgetown University: $2,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Texas Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Thought: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecond Harvest Food Bank Greater New Orleans and Acadiana: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHunters Bend Elementary School PTO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMomentous Institute: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHockaday School: $575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Teaching Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Pines Education Group dba The Pines Catholic Camp: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio: $425 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Health System of Texas: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

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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.

Communities Foundation of Texas IncTX26.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Addy Foundation · Hoblitzelle Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Scanlan Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · Texas Women's Foundation · Meadows Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · Dallas Jewish Community 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.

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How do I get to Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pat & Neil O'Brien 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.

About Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation

How much does Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation give?
Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $84,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Philanthropy (24%), Religion (18%).
Who are Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Catholic Foundation ($98k), My Possibilities ($34k), Catholic Charities of Dallas Inc ($32k).
Does Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation 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 Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Communities Foundation of Texas Inc, Texas Instruments Foundation, The Dallas Foundation.
Where is Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation based?
Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation is based in TX.

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 66 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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