· Private foundation
The O'Neill Brothers Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 74 grants below total $479,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $489,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $10,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k56 grants · $244k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| LAWRENCE SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CLEVELAND METROPARKS | $15,000 |
| MALACHI HOUSE | $12,500 |
| PLAYHOUSE SQUARE | $12,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC | $10,000 |
| THE LANTERN | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JENNINGS CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| INMOTION | $10,000 |
| BEAUMONT SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES HS | $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 (FY17–24, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
94 repeat relationships — 63 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- MWMANUFACTURING WORKS6× · 2018–2023 · $159k · revenue +53%
- UCURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $140k · revenue +140%
- LSLAWRENCE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SAST ALOYSIUS PARISHone grant, 2022 · $12k
- DUDENISON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +8%
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.
Global cleveland is dedicated to growing northeast ohio's economy by welcoming and connecting international people to opportunities and fostering a more inviting community for those seeking a place to call home.
Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteers age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help…
Literary Cleveland assists writers and readers at all stages of development, promotes new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advances Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.
Enhance the lives of all residents of greater cleveland, now and for generations to come, by working together with our donors to build community endowment, address needs through grantmaking, and provide leadership on key community issues.
The mission statement of the cleveland institute of art is as follows: to cultivate creative leaders who inspire people, strengthen communities, and contribute to a thriving and sustainable economy through an innovative education in art…
The mission of the greater cleveland sports commission is to measurably improve the economy of greater cleveland and enrich the community by attracting, creating, managing and enhancing significant sporting and competitive events.
Helping individuals live with dignity through the final stage of life.
Respond to those in need through an integrated system of quality services designed to respect the dignity of every person and build a just and compassionate society.
The cleveland rape crisis center is a non-profit organization which supports survivors of sexual violence, promotes healing and prevention, and advocates for social change.
Cleveland hearing and speech is the premier provider of hearing, speech-language and deaf services, education, and advocacy helping people connect through communication, regardless of ability to pay.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School and the most unlike its peers is The Galen Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 152 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 MANUFACTURING WORKS ↗
- Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE HIRAM HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds The Musical Arts Association ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GEAUGA PARKS ↗
- Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED ↗
- Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Cleveland Foundation · The Reinberger Foundation · The Swagelok Foundation · The Lozick Family Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · The Sk Wellman Foundation · Fred a Lennon Charitable Trust · The Louise H & David S Ingalls Fdn · The Char and Chuck Fowler Family Foundation · The Helen F & Louis Stolier Family Foundation · Murphy Family Foundation · The Catherine L & Edward a Lozick Foundation
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'Neill Brothers 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.