· Private foundation
The Bobby and Peggy O'Connor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY | $25,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ | $15,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $15,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC | $10,000 |
| USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS | $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 (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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +61% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 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 ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM 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 ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bobby and Peggy O'Connor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bobby and Peggy O'Connor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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