· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOTRE DAME SPECIAL SCHOOLS | $13,800 |
| THE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION | $12,400 |
| CHRIST THE KING CHURCH | $9,500 |
| MY POSSIBILITIES | $7,400 |
| ACADEMY OF HOMILETICS | $7,000 |
| HIGH HOPES FOUNDATION | $5,200 |
| JESUIT COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| URSULINE ACADEMY OF DALLAS | $3,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS | $3,000 |
| CLUB FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| DIOCESE OF DALLAS | $3,000 |
| CRISTO REY | $2,400 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | $1,800 |
| INCARNATE WORD ACADEMY | $1,800 |
| THE COOPER INSTITUTE | $1,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.
38 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MPMY POSSIBILITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +20%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +429%
- BSBRIDGE STEPS7× · 2017–2025 · $7k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BBHCSFCELBone grant, 2017 · $3k
- JGJDFR GREATER DALLAS CHAPTERone grant, 2018 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
To generate superior long-term investment returns to support The University of Texas and Texas A&M University systems as they provide world-class teaching, push the boundaries of discovery, and achieve excellence in patient healthcare for…
Trinity episcopal school (trinity) is a not-for-profit independent school whose mission is to provide an enriched academic curriculum in a christian environment. trinity is not affiliated with or sponsored by any parish. we will nurture…
See Disclosure Above.
The university of dallas is dedicated to the pursuit of wisdom, of truth, and of virtue as the proper and primary ends of education. the university seeks to educate its students so they may develop the intellectual and moral virtues,…
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…
See Schedule OSt. John's School is an independent, co-educational day school presenting a 13-year sequence of college preparatory training. A non-profit institution, it was founded in 1946 to provide the community with a school of exacting…
As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
The organization was established to impact, over time, the quality of pre-k-12 public education for all texas students by supporting and developing educational leaders.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MY POSSIBILITIES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DALLAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COOPER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE STEPS ↗
- Who funds ACADEMY OF HOMILETICS ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CATCH UP & READ INC ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds KIPP NASHVILLE ↗
- Who funds Broadway Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds CLUB FOR GROWTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice 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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pat & Neil O'Brien Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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