· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| HUNTING VALLEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GILMOUR ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| LAKE VIEW CEMETERY | $5,000 |
| THERAPUEATIC RIDING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WESTERN RESERVE LAND COUNSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| HOLDEN ABORETUM | $5,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE FED BUDGET | $5,000 |
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- TMThe Musical Arts Association6× · 2018–2024 · $250k · revenue +27%
- CMCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2020–2024 · $165k · revenue +23%
- TRTHERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2022 · $30k · revenue +242%
Funded once
- TSTHE SEMINAR NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +194%
- BIBLUECOATS INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +18%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +43%
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.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
The cleveland botanical garden connects people with the wonder, beauty, and value of trees and plants, to inspire action for healthy communities.
The cleveland institute of music's mission is to empower the world's most talented classical music students to fulfill their dreams and potential.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Provides support for the objective of acquiring prints to be donated to the cleveland museum of art.
To empower and educate people to value, preserve and save greater cincinnati's historic buildings, communities, landscapes and stories.
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…
The troy community land bank acquires, rehabilitates and resells vacant and abandoned buildings throughout the city of troy, new york
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
Cincinnati museum center inspires people of all ages to learn more about our world through science, regional history, and educational, engaging and meaningful experiences.
To provide the highest level of stewardship for university donors through professional management and oversight of the university of minnesota foundation's assets by creating a focused investment environment with clarity of purpose,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Musical Arts Association. 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 68 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds THE HUNTING VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INMOTION ↗
- Who funds THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AMERICAN PORCELAIN ART ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Cleveland Foundation · The Veale Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 The Bill and Kathy O'Neill 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 or a single department — 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.
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