· Private foundation
The O'Donnell 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALPHA BRAVO CANINE | $10,000 |
| ABLE FLIGHT INC | $10,000 |
| ACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS | $10,000 |
| CLOVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $7,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- AFAble Flight Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +57%
- ADACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +37%
Amigos de Jesus2× · 2019–2020 · $10k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - PENNone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CCCARPENTERS COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILAone grant, 2018 · $3k
- EOELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWAREone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +20%
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.
Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.
Provide quality programs and facilities to help the individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities entrusted to our care live with purpose, dignity and to provide opportunities to grow and function at their full potential and as…
Melmark is a human services provider with premier private special education schools, professional development, training, and research centers. melmark is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals within diverse communities with…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.
We "make dreams come true." we provide children and adults with autism, intellectual/developmental disabilities and behavioral health challenges and their families the education, services and resources needed to be self-reliant,…
Alvernia university is a catholic comprehensive university with a liberal arts foundation founded by the bernardine franciscan sisters in 1958. see continuation on schedule o.
The hugo w. moser research institute at kennedy krieger, inc. (the "research institute") is an internationally recognized research facility finding answers to problems and injuries that affect a child's developing brain. researchers have…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
Working as an integrated system within highmark health, employees at all of ahn's care sites, including hospitals, health + wellness pavilions, primary and specialty care offices and more, are committed to improving health and promoting…
Desales is a catholic, salesian university that inspires transformative learning through the liberal arts and professional studies by energizing students to be who they are and be that well.
Strive to make better health easier by providing access to affordable, high quality health services through equitable, innovative, and inclusive care models that support patient care, education, research, & community services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elwyn Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Veterans Monument Foundation of Whitemarsh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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 Able Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA BRAVO CANINE ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST ↗
- Who funds DRUEDING CENTER ↗
- Who funds Amigos de Jesus ↗
- Who funds HOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Clover Montessori School ↗
- Who funds LA SALLE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEACEFUL LIVING ↗
- Who funds THE ELWYN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds GWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GAUDENZIA INC ↗
- Who funds ELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds SMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LAYMEN'S RETREAT LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds VETERANS MONUMENT FOUNDATION OF WHITEMARSH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY ↗
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 Philadelphia Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Connelly Foundation · The Cigna Group Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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'Donnell 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.
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