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Robert F & Maureen T Okeefe Family Foundation at a glance

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Robert F & Maureen T Okeefe 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.

$118k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$79k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$535kHuman Services$58kArts & Culture$26kHealth$13kReligion$10kYouth Development$2kHousing & Shelter$1kRecreation & Sports$350Other$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $79k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL$78,750
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$15,000
SAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS$10,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER$5,000
FAIRFIELD PREP$5,000
ARC OF NEW LONDON COUNTY$3,000
MERCY HIGH SCHOOL$500
Individual grant recipient$300
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ACADEMY OF ST JOSEPH: $5k → 17%ARC OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $3k → 9%MERCY LEARNING CENTER: $11k → 9%SCHOOL SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME: $3k → 12%ARC OF NEW LONDON COUNTY: $3k → 9%MERCY LEARNING CENTER: $8k → 9%UNION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $8k → 10%ARC OF NEW LONDON COUNTY: $3k → 9%MERCY LEARNING CENTER: $7k → 9%UNION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 10%ST JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $30k → 8%ARC OF NEW LONDON COUNTY: $3k → 9%MERCY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 9%UNION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 10%ST JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $21k → 8%ARC OF NEW LONDON COUNTY: $3k → 9%MERCY LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 9%UNION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $4k → 10%ST JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $17k → 8%ARC OF NEW LONDON COUNTY: $3k → 9%MERCY LEARNING CENTER: $4k → 9%IRELAND'S GREAT HUNGER MUSEUM: $6k → 12%UNION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 10%ASSUMPTION SCHOOL: $10k → 12%ASSUMPTION SCHOOL: $10k → 12%SAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $10k → 9%SAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $10k → 9%SAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $10k → 9%SAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $10k → 9%ST VINCENT FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ST VINCENT FOUNDATION: $3k → 9%ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL: $79k → 9%ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL: $50k → 9%ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL: $47k → 9%ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL: $29k → 9%ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL: $26k → 9%ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL: $16k → 9%CHRIST CHURCH TASHUA: $5k → 9%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $31k → 9%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $21k → 9%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $15k → 9%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $13k → 9%FAIRFIELD PREP: $6k → 9%FAIRFIELD PREP: $5k → 9%FAIRFIELD PREP: $5k → 9%FAIRFIELD PREP: $5k → 9%ST PIUS X SCHOOL: $3k → 9%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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$614k · 20 repeat orgs$32k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
18

Total granted

$614k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+67%

Still filing today

35%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • Fairfield University
    6× · 2019–2024 · $96k · revenue +48%
  • ML
    MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +9%
  • SV
    St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $10k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • AO
    ACADEMY OF ST JOSEPH
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • GB
    GREATER BRIDGEPOIRT ST PATRICK'S DAY COMMITTEE
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH TASHUA
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
St Vincent's College Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

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5
Quinnipiac University

To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…

Education
6
Benedictine University

Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…

Education
7
St John's University New York

St. john's university is a catholic, vincentian, metropolitan, and global institution of higher education (continued on schedule o).

Education
8
Hilbert College

Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…

Education
9
Regis College

Regis college, through education in the arts, sciences, and professions empowers women and men to challenge themselves academically, to serve and to lead. a catholic college, regis is a diverse and welcoming community guided by the values…

Education
10
The Bridge Academy Inc

The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…

Education
11
St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc

The mission of the center is as follows:(a) to operate, oversee, administer, manage and supervise the assets and activities of saint catherine center for special needs, inc. and, including but not limited to, the assets and activities of…

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12
St Augustine College

St. augustine college is an independent, bilingual institution of higher education created under the episcopal diocese to make the american system of higher education accessible to a diverse student population with emphasis on those of…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc; the most unlike its peers is Greater Bridgeport St Patrick's Day Celebration 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

11 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. 11 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL: $245,750 · OtherST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOLST JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOL: $68,000 · OtherST JOHN PAUL II HIGH SCHOOLSAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS: $40,000 · OtherSAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDSUNION CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $24,000 · OtherFAIRFIELD PREP: $23,500 · OtherASSUMPTION SCHOOL: $21,000 · Other+25 more: $57,637 · Other+25 moreFairfield University: $95,750 · EducationFairfield UniversityMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $38,700 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CENTER O…+1 more: $750 · EducationGREATER BRIDGEPORT ST PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION INC: $12,960 · Arts & CultureIRELANDS GREAT HUNGER MUSEUM INC: $6,300 · Arts & CultureSt Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $300 · HealthLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$479,887Education$135,200Arts & Culture$19,260Health$10,300Housing & Shelter$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFairfield University: $95,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $38,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BRIDGEPORT ST PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION INC: $12,960 over 2y, 15% of budgetSt Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $1,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KOINONIA ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GET IN TOUCH FOUNDATIONINC: $300 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BRIDGEPORT ST PATRICK'S DAY CELEBRATION INC ↗
  • Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds IRELANDS GREAT HUNGER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE KOINONIA ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE GET IN TOUCH FOUNDATIONINC ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Robert F & Maureen T Okeefe Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert F & Maureen T Okeefe Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Robert F & Maureen T Okeefe Family 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 39 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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