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Sean and Jennifer Oneal Family Foundatio at a glance

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Sean and Jennifer Oneal Family Foundatio

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$40k
Granted FY2021
3
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Recreation & Sports$2.9MHealth$185kReligion$35kEducation$18kYouth Development$10k
02FY2021 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$30,000
TAZMANIAN BOXING CLUB$5,000
SOLACE TREE$5,000
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $1.5M → 20%GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%TAZMANIAN BOXING CLUB: $5k → 13%BARROWNEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $1.2M → 20%SOLACE TREE: $5k → 10%GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $200k → 20%COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $15k → 10%CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK RENOWN HEALTH: $15k → 10%EDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY: $15k → 10%CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $15k → 10%SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $10k → 10%STFRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH: $20k → 10%STFRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15k → 10%INCLINE VILLAGE COMUNITY HOSPITAL: $10k → 10%SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE: $3k → 10%RENO RODEO FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%LEAD WITH HORSES: $10k → 10%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.
$3.0M · 3 repeat orgs$163k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +1282% since the first grant, against +63% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

$3.0M
$153k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1282%
+63%

Still filing today

67%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
HealthPublic BenefitPhilanthropyEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • TG
    THE GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2018–2020 · $2.9M · revenue ×14 · 59% of their budget
  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    4× · 2017–2021 · $70k · revenue +578%
  • SO
    STFRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $35k

Funded once

  • CF
    CELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -78%
  • CO
    CIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK RENOWN HEALTH
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
3
University of Nevada Reno Foundation

Facilitate gifts & grants for the benefit of the University of Nevada, Reno to enhance the quality of education through charitable giving.

Education
4
Carson Valley Health Foundation

None

Health
5
Educate Nevada Now

Educate Nevada Now (ENN) is a non-partisan education policy organization focused on ensuring that every Nevada child has access to a quality education, regardless of their family income or circumstances. ENN strives to make fair and…

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6
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
7
Unlv Research Foundation

The foundation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the purposes of supporting, promoting, and reporting research activities at the university of nevada, las vegas, as an entity of the board of regents of the nevada system of…

Science & Tech
8
Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation

To provide social, emotional, educational, and psychological support and programs to families of all children diagnosed with life threatening or critical illnesses and provide healing arts and wellness programs to adults touched by cancer…

Health
9
Community Foundation of Northern Nevada

To strengthen our community through philanthropy and leadership by connecting people who care with causes that matter.

Philanthropy
10
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
11
Healthie Nevada

Connecting the nevada healthcare community by providing real-time, secure, and accurate exchange of clinical information to improve the quality and continuum of healthcare for the patient.

Health
12
Roseman University of Health Sciences

Roseman university of health sciences advances the health and wellness of the communities we serve by educating current and future generations of health professionals, conducting research and providing patient care. we actively pursue…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lead with Horses; the most unlike its peers is Tazmanian Boxing Club. 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

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $2,893,547 · Public BenefitTHE GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATIONSTFRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH: $35,000 · OtherCIRCLE OF LIFE HOSPICE: $15,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK RENOWN HEALTH: $15,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $15,000 · OtherReno Rodeo Foundation: $15,000 · OtherINCLINE VILLAGE COMUNITY HOSPITAL: $10,000 · Other+1 more: $2,500 · OtherTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $70,000 · HealthBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthLead with Horses: $10,000 · HealthSOLACETREE INC: $5,000 · HealthCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION ALLIANCE OF WASHOE COUNTY INC: $15,000 · EducationSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTAZMANIAN BOXING CLUB: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Public Benefit$2,893,547Other$107,500Health$95,000Philanthropy$35,000Education$15,000Youth Development$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE GREATER RENO COMMUNITY ICE SKATING ASSOCIATION: $2,893,547 over 3y, 59% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCELEBRITY FIGHT NIGHT FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetReno Rodeo Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBARROW NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLACETREE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTAZMANIAN BOXING CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetSierra Nevada College: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

NV Energy Charitable …Community Foundation …The Nell J Redfield F…Dermody Properties Fo…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
NV Energy Charitable FoundationNV15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The Nell J Redfield Foundation · Dermody Properties Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Sean and Jennifer Oneal Family Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sean and Jennifer Oneal Family Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 16 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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