· Private foundation
The Bobby and Peggy O'Connor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY | $25,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $15,000 |
| CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC | $10,000 |
| USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $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 (FY19–24, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +61% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC5× · 2019–2024 · $95k · revenue +67%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC6× · 2018–2024 · $75k · revenue +6%
PINE STREET INN INC5× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOSTON ASTROS BASEBALL CLUB INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
MORE THAN WORDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +61%
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.
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Tertiary care academic medical center
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
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.
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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 Bobby and Peggy O'Connor 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
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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