California · Private foundation
The O'Brien 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.
- $780k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 56
- Grants FY2025
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $125,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 48
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $846k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations The O'Brien Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 21% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 53 | $780k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 48 | $720k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 47 | $552k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $884k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $918k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $735k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 45 | $730k | 20% |
| FY2017 | 48 | $749k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of San Francisco | $1,662,946 | 8 | 0% |
| Bay Scholars | $675,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Sacred Heart Schools Atherton | $276,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties | $200,000 | 5 | 1% |
| California Homebuilding Foundation | $185,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School | $142,775 | 7 | n/a |
| Ravenswood Education Foundation | $130,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Bridge Housing Corporation | $105,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St Pius School | $100,000 | 8 | n/a |
| St Francis Center | $81,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 44 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The O'Brien Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 30 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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 San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Salesforce Foundation · Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tua-Main · Trust Funds Incorporated · The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · Olympic Club Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About The O'Brien Family Foundation
- How much does The O'Brien Family Foundation give?
- The O'Brien Family Foundation reported 56 grants totaling $779,550 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 48 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The O'Brien Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Housing & Shelter (9%), Religion (8%).
- Who are The O'Brien Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of San Francisco ($1.7M), Bay Scholars ($675k), Sacred Heart Schools Atherton ($276k).
- Does The O'Brien Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The O'Brien Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The O'Brien Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is The O'Brien Family Foundation based?
- The O'Brien Family Foundation is based in CA.
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