Alabama · Private foundation
The O'Melia 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.
- $361k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $230,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 36
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations The O'Melia Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 65% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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 | 19 | $356k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $367k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $268k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $227k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 36 | $236k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $194k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Infirmary Health System Inc | $459,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pilots for Christ Inc | $90,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Bayside Academy Inc | $49,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Thomas Hospital Foundation Inc | $37,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Ums-Wright Corporation | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Visitation Monastery | $26,000 | 6 | n/a |
| University of South Alabama | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Childrens Advocacy Center | $15,000 | 2 | 3% |
| The Children's Hospital of Alabama | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($750k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The O'Melia Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 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: Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee · J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee · Rjjb Family Foundation · Mapp Family Foundation · Alabama Power Foundation Inc · The Miller Charitable Foundation Inc · Mayer & Arlene Mitchell Charitable Foundation · Cd Helen and Jeff Glaze Foundation · As Mitchell Foundation Inc · Hearin - Chandler Foundation · Harrigan Family Foundation · Thomas L Turner Charitable Trust Regions Bank
How this is measured
About The O'Melia Foundation
- How much does The O'Melia Foundation give?
- The O'Melia Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $361,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 36 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The O'Melia Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Religion (20%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are The O'Melia Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Infirmary Health System Inc ($459k), Pilots for Christ Inc ($90k), Bayside Academy Inc ($49k).
- Does The O'Melia Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The O'Melia 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'Melia Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Crampton Trust #1255000731 Regions Bank Trustee, J L Bedsole Foundation Regions Bank Co-Trustee, Rjjb Family Foundation.
- Where is The O'Melia Foundation based?
- The O'Melia Foundation is based in AL.
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