· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $125,000 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| BAY SCHOLARS | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $27,600 |
| CALIFORNIA HOMEBUILDING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| JUSTIN SIENA HIGH SCHOOL LEAP | $24,500 |
| HANNA ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE | $15,000 |
| WOMEN'S COACHING ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| ST PIUS SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KAMUKAMA FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +63% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
University of San Francisco8× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +14%- BSBAY SCHOLARS8× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +165%
- RERAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- SCST CATHERINE OF SIENA PARISHone grant, 2022 · $63k
- PDPROJECT DESTINED INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -45%
- JHJUSTIN-SIENA HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…
Our mission at housing trust silicon valley, is to use transformative housing finance and public and private partnerships to create more equitable and affordable communities.
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
The mission of st. francis foundation of santa barbara is to promote and support health care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Rich May Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 50 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
35 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. 35 of the 89 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 University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds BAY SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds California Homebuilding Foundation ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DESTINED INC ↗
- Who funds Firm Foundation Community Housing ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together Peninsula ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds KAMUKAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
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.
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
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 O'Brien Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.