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The Bill and Kathy O'Neill 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.

$163k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2024
8
Organizations funded FY2023
25%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 15
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$3.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 25% of the organizations The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$163k39%
FY20238$155k25%
FY202215$176k33%
FY202112$203k50%
FY20206$133k50%
FY20194$52k50%
FY20183$52k100%
FY20174$52kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$440kEducation$233kHealth$157kHuman Services$45kEnvironment$35kFood & Nutrition$20kInternational$15kPublic Benefit$15kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Musical Arts Association$250,00060%
Cleveland Museum of Art$165,00050%
The Seminar Network Inc$100,00010%
Gilmour Academy Inc$30,0003n/a
Therapeutic Riding Center Foundation$30,00028%
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$25,00030%
Bluecoats Inc$25,00013%
Case Western Reserve University$25,00010%
Hawken School$25,00030%
Catholic Charities Corporation$20,00020%
Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Musical Arts Association$250,00060%
Cleveland Museum of Art$165,00050%
The Seminar Network Inc$100,00010%
Gilmour Academy Inc$30,0003n/a
Therapeutic Riding Center Foundation$30,00028%
Western Reserve Land Conservancy$25,00030%
Bluecoats Inc$25,00013%
Case Western Reserve University$25,00010%
Hawken School$25,00030%
Catholic Charities Corporation$20,00020%
Cleveland Museum of Natural History$20,00020%
American Foreign Policy Council$15,00020%
The Hunting Valley Foundation$10,00012%
Inmotion$7,50070%
The Holden Arboretum$5,00010%
Museum of American Porcelain Art$2,50020%
West Park Historical Society$2,5003n/a
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$2,00020%
City Mission$5001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($224k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCleveland Museum of Art: $165,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Seminar Network Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTherapeutic Riding Center Foundation: $30,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetWestern Reserve Land Conservancy: $25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBluecoats Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCase Western Reserve University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHawken School: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCleveland Museum of Natural History: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foreign Policy Council: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Hunting Valley Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetInmotion: $7,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Holden Arboretum: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of American Porcelain Art: $2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetStephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

The Cleveland FoundationOH15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cleveland Foundation · The Veale Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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Find your warmest path to The Bill and Kathy O'Neill 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.

About The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation

How much does The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation give?
The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $162,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (44%), Education (23%), Health (16%).
Who are The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Musical Arts Association ($250k), Cleveland Museum of Art ($165k), The Seminar Network Inc ($100k).
Does The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cleveland Foundation, The Veale Foundation, The Lozick Family Foundation.
Where is The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation based?
The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation is based in OH.

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 33 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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