· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MUSICAL ARTS ASSOC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| HUNTING VALLEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GILMOUR ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| GESU CHURCH | $5,000 |
| LAKE VIEW CEMETERY | $5,000 |
| HAWKEN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THERAPUEATIC RIDING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| HOLDEN ABORETUM | $5,000 |
| CITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBLE FED BUDGET | $5,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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,…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 33 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 The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE SEMINAR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAWKEN SCHOOL ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bill and Kathy O'Neill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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