· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $292k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO | $125,000 |
| BAY SCHOLARS | $100,000 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| ST IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $27,600 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA HOMEBUILDING FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FLINTRIDGE SACRED HEART ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| JUSTIN SIENA HIGH SCHOOL LEAP | $24,500 |
| HANNA ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| CATHOLIC WORKER HOUSE | $15,000 |
| ST PETER'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SACRED HEART SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| ALAMEDA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| HOMEAID OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +63% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- HBHERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 89 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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The O'Brien Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The O'Brien Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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