· Private foundation
Patrick a & Mary B O'Neil 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $59,718 |
| NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI | $12,277 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREP | $7,500 |
| OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BROTHER RICE HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SAINT CLEMENT PARISH | $4,800 |
| IGNITE | $3,750 |
| QUEEN OF ALL SAINTS | $3,600 |
| ST LEO THE GREAT LADIES GUILD | $3,500 |
| CONCORDIA PLACE | $2,500 |
| JOSEPHINUM ACADEMY OF THE SACRED HEART | $2,500 |
| COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CONCERN WORLDWIDE | $2,000 |
| CATHOLIC FAITH APPEAL | $1,500 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK | $1,005 |
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 (FY21–25, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $63k · revenue +86%
- TNTHE NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI INC5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +4%
- CPCONCORDIA PLACE2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
Funded once
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -5%- ATATHLETES THEY FEARone grant, 2023 · $5k
- PEPathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +140%
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.
Nourishing hope provides food, mental health support, and social services to help all our neighbors thrive.
Providing interim housing for men, women and children, social services, homeless services, emergency shelter, and housing in chicago community for the homeless, poor and disadvantaged.
Ravenswood community services ("rcs") operates a food pantry and community kitchen for those in need of emergency food on chicago's north side.
Equitable opportunity. affordable homes. thriving neighborhoods.
Christopher house is a family of schools that helps children and families succeed in school, the workplace, and life. through our unique and innovative approach, we are effectively closing the opportunity gap through a continuum of…
To enhance the quality of life for children and families by inspiring hope and empowerment and growth within all whom we serve.
The greater chicago food depository is the nonprofit food bank serving cook county. our mission - is to end hunger. we believe food is a basic human right. to achieve our mission, we work in partnership with a network of community-based…
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.
Equitable opportunity. affordable homes. thriving neighborhoods.
To provide decent, safe and sanitary housing that is affordable to low and moderate-income persons and to stabilize and strengthen communities by improving the local housing stock. the corporation shall administer programs that revitalize…
Erie neighborhood house provides the most comprehensive support to immigrant and low-income families in chicago. our mission is to empower our communitylatinx immigrants alongside individuals and families of all backgroundsthrough…
Strive to improve the health and well being of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and other medically vulnerable populations by providing quality accessable, affordable, and culturally responsive health care within the community we serve.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Chicago and the most unlike its peers is Michael Rolfe Pancreatic Cancer Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 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. 24 of the 59 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LA PORTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST FRANCES XAVIER CABRINI INC ↗
- Who funds ARTEMPLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA PLACE ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CONCERNED FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON PANTRY ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY PADS INC ↗
- Who funds Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAFE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN PARK CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARILLAC ST VINCENT FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LATINO PROGRESS ↗
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: Greater Chicago Food Depository · Circle of Service Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago · The Chicago Community Trust · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Leonard J and Irene Brown Foundation Inc · Fifth Third Chicagoland Foundation · Helen V Brach Foundation · Robert R McCormick Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Baird Foundation Inc
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 Patrick a & Mary B O'Neil 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, a single department, or state — 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.