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The Dennis A O'Toole Family Foundation at a glance

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The Dennis A O'Toole Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$352k
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Environment$436kArts & Culture$279kReligion$218kHuman Services$188kInternational$122kEducation$75kAnimals$65kHealth$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $287k
$8,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Nature Conservancy Block Island$43,000
St Bede's Episcopal Church$30,500
Amnesty International USA Inc$30,000
Treehouse$25,000
The Drayer Wildlife Health Center at UC Davis$25,000
Urban Learning and Teaching Center$25,000
The Homeless Children's Playtime Project$25,000
Acting Globally$20,000
Interfaith Community Shelter Group Inc$20,000
Museum of New Mexico Foundation$12,000
High Country News$11,000
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$10,000
Conservation Voters New Mexico Education Fund$10,000
Equal Justice Initiative$8,000
The Nature Conservancy New Mexico$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $130k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%The Homeless Children's Playtime Project: $25k → 14%DZI Foundation: $1k → 7%The Homeless Children's Playtime Project: $20k → 14%DZI Foundation: $1k → 7%The Homeless Children's Playtime Project: $2k → 14%Urban Learning and Teaching Center: $25k → 14%Urban Learning and Teaching Center: $25k → 14%Urban Learning and Teaching Center: $20k → 14%The Food Depot: $2k → 12%The Food Depot: $2k → 12%The Food Depot: $2k → 12%The Food Depot: $2k → 12%The Food Depot: $2k → 12%The Food Depot: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MN
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
NM
KS
TN
DC
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 31 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
13

Total granted

$1.4M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+3%

Still filing today

77%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsInternationalHealthOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MO
    MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $190k · revenue +70%
  • UL
    URBAN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +16%
  • HC
    HIGH COUNTRY NEWS
    6× · 2020–2025 · $66k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • IS
    INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERA
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • FO
    Friends of the Center for Big Bend Studies
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • RA
    REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +280%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

We inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the sonoran desert.

Arts & Culture
5
Nature and Culture International

Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.

Environment
6
The Mountain Institute Inc

Advance the well- being of mountain people and conservation of mountain environments.

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7
Rainforest Foundation Inc

The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.

Environment
8
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
9
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
10
New Mexico Land Conservancy

To preserve new mexico's land heritage by helping people conserve the places they love. nmlc works with landowners and others to protect wildlife habitat, agricultural lands, scenic open space, cultural and historic resources, and…

Food & Nutrition
11
Survival International (Usa)

In partnership with indigenous peoples to: campaign, lobby & protest for: indigenous rights; investigate, expose and confront atrocities committed by governments and big business; amplify indigenous voices around the world

International
12
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somos Un Pueblo Unido; the most unlike its peers is International Society of Interpersonal Psychothera. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 48 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Bede's Episcopal Church: $180,500 · OtherSt Bede's Episcopal ChurchThe Nature Conservancy Block Island: $146,000 · OtherThe Nature Conservancy Block IslandTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $109,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYAmnesty International USA Inc: $76,000 · OtherAmnesty International USA IncThe Drayer Wildlife Health Center at UC Davis: $65,000 · OtherThe Drayer Wildlife Health Center at UC DavisTrustees of Princeton University: $38,000 · OtherSt Ann's by the Sea Episcopal Church: $36,200 · OtherBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC: $31,000 · OtherINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC: $33,000 · Other+16 more: $134,000 · Other+16 moreMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $189,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF NEW MEXIC…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITU…EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureEL RANCHO DE LAS GO…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY: $16,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ASSOCIATIO…+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureURBAN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER: $70,000 · Human ServicesURBAN LEA…HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $47,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS …THE FOOD DEPOT: $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD …+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $66,000 · EnvironmentLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $27,500 · EnvironmentBLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $18,000 · EnvironmentNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $7,000 · Environment+2 more: $3,260 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $39,500 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $32,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $3,000 · Civil RightsHEALING BRIDGES: $32,500 · InternationalBuilding New Hope: $24,000 · InternationalTHE SHARING FOUNDATION: $13,500 · InternationalTREEHOUSE: $65,000 · Youth Development
Other$848,700Arts & Culture$272,500Human Services$130,000Environment$121,760Civil Rights$74,500International$70,000Youth Development$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION: $189,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $109,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $66,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT: $47,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND: $39,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC: $33,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHEALING BRIDGES: $32,500 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $32,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBuilding New Hope: $24,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetThe Land Institute: $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $17,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY: $16,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHARING FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOOD DEPOT: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetREGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Committee for the Great Salt Pond: $2,260 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDZI FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING SANTA FE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN CLUB INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds URBAN LEARNING AND TEACHING CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
  • Who funds TREEHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS CHILDREN'S PLAYTIME PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION VOTERS NEW MEXICO EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SHELTER GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALING BRIDGES ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Building New Hope ↗
  • Who funds The Land Institute ↗
  • Who funds EL RANCHO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BLOCK ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds THE SHARING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
  • Who funds SANTA FE FARMERS MARKET INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF INTERPERSONAL PSYCHOTHERA ↗
  • Who funds REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Committee for the Great Salt Pond ↗
  • Who funds SOMOS UN PUEBLO UNIDO ↗

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.

Santa Fe Community Fo…The Bessemer Giving F…New Society Fund Gcam…The Abeles FoundationNancy Ann Mellen Foun…The Frost FoundationThornburg FoundationVanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodAmerican Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…
Santa Fe Community FoundationNM21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · New Society Fund Gcameron Duncanjrpresident · The Abeles Foundation · Nancy Ann Mellen Foundation · The Frost Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dennis A O'Toole Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dennis A O'Toole Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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