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The O'Donnell Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$37k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$111kHealth$51kHuman Services$41kRecreation & Sports$13kArts & Culture$4kReligion$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$714k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ABLE FLIGHT INC$10,000
ACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS$10,000
ALPHA BRAVO CANINE$10,000
CLOVER MONTESSORI SCHOOL$7,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $10k → 6%DRUEDING CENTER: $5k → 22%ALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $10k → 6%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ELWYN: $1k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%ELWYN FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%DRUEDING CENTER: $3k → 22%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $5k → 7%DRUEDING CENTER: $3k → 22%AMIGOS DE JESUS: $5k → 7%PEACEFUL LIVING: $1k → 7%PEACEFUL LIVING: $1k → 7%PEACEFUL LIVING: $1k → 7%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$192k · 15 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +20% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

$192k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+20%

Still filing today

93%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • AF
    Able Flight Inc
    8× · 2018–2025 · $73k · revenue +57%
  • AD
    ACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +37%
  • AF
    ANGEL FLIGHT EAST
    4× · 2018–2021 · $12k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - PENN
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • CC
    CARPENTERS COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILA
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • LR
    LAYMEN'S RETREAT LEAGUE
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Philhaven

Philhaven promotes hope, healing and wholeness through the provision of behavioral resources.

Health
2
Merakey Allegheny Valley School

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…

Human Services
3
Melmark Inc

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…

Human Services
4
Drexel University

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…

Education
5
Fellowship Health Resources Inc

Elwyn makes life better for people with developmental and behavioral health challenges.

Human Services
6
Dr Gertrude a Barber Center Inc

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,…

Human Services
7
Alvernia University

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.

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8
Hugo W Moser Research Institute At Kennedy Krieger Inc

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…

Science & Tech
9
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
10
Highmark Health Group

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…

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11
Desales University

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.

Education
12
Geisinger Medical Center

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elwyn Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Able Flight Inc: $72,500 · EducationAble Flight IncClover Montessori School: $7,000 · EducationClover Montessori SchoolLA SALLE ACADEMY: $6,000 · EducationLA SALLE ACADEMYVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY+1 more: $2,000 · EducationALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $20,000 · Human ServicesALPHA BRAVO CANINEDRUEDING CENTER: $10,500 · Human ServicesDRUEDING CENTERAmigos de Jesus: $10,000 · Human ServicesAmigos de JesusTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE ELWYN FOUNDATIONPEACEFUL LIVING: $3,000 · Human ServicesPEACEFUL LIVING+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC: $26,000 · Recreation & SportsACTIVE DISABLED AME…ANGEL FLIGHT EAST: $11,500 · Recreation & SportsANGEL FLIGHT EAST+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsMERCY VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL SISTERS OF MERCY: $18,000 · OtherMERCY VOCATION…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - PENN: $5,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF TH…CARPENTERS COMPANY OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILA: $3,000 · OtherCARPENTERS COM…LAYMEN'S RETREAT LEAGUE: $1,000 · OtherNATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY: $1,000 · OtherHOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM: $8,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $2,000 · HealthGAUDENZIA INC: $1,500 · HealthVETERANS MONUMENT FOUNDATION OF WHITEMARSH: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$92,500Human Services$47,500Recreation & Sports$38,500Other$28,000Health$11,500Arts & Culture$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAble Flight Inc: $72,500 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetACTIVE DISABLED AMERICANS INC: $26,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetALPHA BRAVO CANINE: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT EAST: $11,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDRUEDING CENTER: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAmigos de Jesus: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOLY REDEEMER HEALTH SYSTEM: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetClover Montessori School: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLA SALLE ACADEMY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELWYN FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPEACEFUL LIVING: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGWYNEDD MERCY UNIVERSITY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAUDENZIA INC: $1,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSMITH MEMORIAL PLAYGROUND & PLAYHOUSE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELWYN OF PENNSYLVANIA AND DELAWARE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS MONUMENT FOUNDATION OF WHITEMARSH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

The Philadelphia Foun…United Way of Greater…Connelly FoundationThe Cigna Group Found…The Pfizer Foundation…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 O'Donnell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The O'Donnell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The O'Donnell Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The O'Donnell Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 23 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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