· Private foundation
Rowan T O'Riley Family 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 $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $264k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE FUND | $30,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $20,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $16,000 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| STOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE | $13,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATIONINC | $10,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $10,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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 +63% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF9× · 2017–2025 · $186k · revenue +76%
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $170k · revenue +120%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $127k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- WTWBUR - TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- NNAACPone grant, 2023 · $10k
- TGTRANSLATE GENDER INCone grant, 2023 · $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.
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.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Preserve the integrity of competition, inspire true sport, protect the rights of u.s. athletes
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Education and Research
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 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.
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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds POLARIS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds STOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES DRESSAGE FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY FRIENDLY AID ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COLLECTIVE POWER INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSLATE GENDER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DRESSAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS - THE ROUNDTABLE OF SUPPORT INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rowan T O'Riley Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rowan T O'Riley Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Impact Inc: 25% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc: 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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