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The O'Neill Brothers Foundation at a glance

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The O'Neill Brothers Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$513k
Granted FY2025still arriving
72
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$741kHealth$529kArts & Culture$369kHuman Services$304kEmployment$220kRecreation & Sports$217kReligion$207kYouth Development$138kOther$0
02FY2025 · 72 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $245k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $218k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BENEDICTINE HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
CLEVELAND METROPARKS$20,000
FIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC$20,000
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL$20,000
LAWRENCE SCHOOL$15,000
MALACHI HOUSE$12,500
HUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,500
GATHERING PLACE$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$10,000
HOPE IGNITES$10,000
PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS-METRO CATHOLIC$10,000
BEAUMONT SCHOOL$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES HS$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $174k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WEST SIDE CATHOLIC CENTER: $5k → 17%ROSE-MARY CENTER: $3k → 17%MONTESSORI DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP: $2k → 17%JOSEPHS HOME: $10k → 17%JOSEPHS HOME: $5k → 17%JOSEPHS HOME: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $8k → 17%GLOBAL CLEVELAND: $3k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $5k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $4k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $3k → 17%SEEDS OF LITERACY: $1k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%THE GATHERING PLACE: $10k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $1k → 17%SHOES & CLOTHES FOR KIDS: $1k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%CLEVELAND SIGHT CENTER: $5k → 17%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 97 repeat orgs$295k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 60 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
53

Total granted

$3.4M
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+16%

Still filing today

45%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • UC
    URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +140%
  • MW
    MANUFACTURING WORKS
    6× · 2018–2023 · $159k · revenue +53%
  • LS
    LAWRENCE SCHOOL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • SA
    ST ALOYSIUS PARISH
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • 1R
    1964 RUGBY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
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
Literary Cleveland

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.

Education
2
The Cleveland Foundation

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.

Philanthropy
3
The Cleveland Institute of Art

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…

Education
4
Diabetes Partnership of Cleveland

Diabetes partnership of cleveland works to provide relevant and sustainable programming, education, resources and supplies to the community in northeast ohio affected by diabetes.

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5
Digitalc

Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.

Community Improvement
6
Community Learning Center Institute

Clci facilitates the ongoing engagement of the greater cincinnati community to promote the development of all schools as community learning centers, each with a set of financially self-sustaining, co-located community partners.

Education
7
Greater Cleveland Sports Commission

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.

Unclassified
8
Greater Cleveland Volunteers

Greater cleveland volunteers enriches the community and indivuduals through volunteer service. volunteer age 18 and older are recruited and placed in the agency's programs or referred to local nonprofit or public organizations to help them…

Philanthropy
9
Catholic Charities Corporation

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.

Human Services
10
Hope for Cleveland's Children
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11
Cleveland Museum of Art

The mission of the cleveland museum of art (cma) is to fulfill its dual roles as one of the world's most distinguished comprehensive art museums and as one of northeastern ohio's principal civic and cultural institutions. the museum,…

Arts & Culture
12
Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce

Advancing a thriving central ohio commmunity by serving as a catalyst for all businesses to grow and flourish. our mission pillars are connections, government relations, strategic business solutions and talent/workforce.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Community School; 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.
04the grantee network

71 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. 71 of the 163 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/71
Grantees still filing
47/71
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $160,000 · OtherURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOLMANUFACTURING WORKS: $158,657 · OtherMANUFACTURING WORKSCLEVELAND CLINIC: $115,000 · OtherCLEVELAND METROPARKS: $115,000 · OtherLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $105,000 · OtherFIELDSTONE FARM THERAPEUTIC: $102,500 · OtherSAINT MARTIN DE PORRES HS: $100,000 · OtherMETRO CATHOLIC PARISH SCHOOL: $95,000 · OtherHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $95,000 · Other+114 more: $1,770,800 · Other+114 moreNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $65,312 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $49,450 · EducationCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $45,000 · EducationCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $38,000 · EducationCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $35,000 · EducationLAUREL SCHOOL: $29,500 · EducationTHE TURN: $13,000 · EducationDENISON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationThe Musical Arts Association: $45,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $45,000 · Arts & CultureLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $35,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $31,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureSKIDMARK CLE: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHOPEWELL: $34,500 · HealthLIFEACT: $30,000 · HealthINMOTION: $30,000 · HealthThe Lantern: $25,000 · HealthTHE GALEN FOUNDATION: $24,000 · HealthWomankind Inc: $19,500 · HealthSTELLA MARIS INC: $15,000 · HealthTHE GALEN FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+2 more: $8,500 · HealthTHE GATHERING PLACE: $70,000 · Human ServicesSEEDS OF LITERACY: $39,500 · Human ServicesCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $30,000 · Human ServicesJOSEPHS HOME: $20,000 · Human Services+5 more: $14,000 · Human ServicesGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionGEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE: $22,500 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S HUNGER ALLIANCE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD STRONG: $2,500 · Food & NutritionHUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,500 · PhilanthropyCLEVELAND BEER WEEK: $4,000 · Philanthropy
Other$2,816,957Education$285,262Arts & Culture$197,000Health$196,500Human Services$173,500Food & Nutrition$70,000Philanthropy$64,500

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 budgetURBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $160,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMANUFACTURING WORKS: $158,657 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetLAWRENCE SCHOOL: $105,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI: $95,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMALACHI HOUSE INC: $80,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE: $70,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNOTRE DAME COLLEGE: $65,312 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HIRAM HOUSE: $65,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetHUDSON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $60,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $49,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetVOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR GEAUGA PARKS: $42,500 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetGREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEEDS OF LITERACY: $39,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $38,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED: $37,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHOPEWELL: $34,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCLEVELAND SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE HOUSE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEACT: $30,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetINMOTION: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLAUREL SCHOOL: $29,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CLEVELAND: $26,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Lantern: $25,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GALEN FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetGEAUGA COUNTY HUNGER TASK FORCE: $22,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetJOSEPHS HOME: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCLEVELAND RESTORATION SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetZELIE'S HOME: $20,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSKIDMARK CLE: $20,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED: $20,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWomankind Inc: $19,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSTELLA MARIS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TURN: $13,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Reserve Folk Arts Association: $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget1964 RUGBY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetDENISON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELEANOR B RAINEY MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRONT STEPS HOUSING AND SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSTONEBROOK MONTESSORI: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% 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.

  • Who funds URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MANUFACTURING WORKS ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE IGNITES CINCINNATI ↗
  • Who funds MALACHI HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE GATHERING PLACE ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME COLLEGE ↗
  • 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 THE CLEVELAND PLAY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE NOW GREATER CLEVELAND INC ↗
  • Who funds VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT CENTERS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR GEAUGA PARKS ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CLEVELAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds SEEDS OF LITERACY ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS VOLUNTEERS UNLIMITED ↗
  • Who funds LAKEVIEW CEMETERY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CLEVELAND INSTITUTE OF MUSIC ↗

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 Cleveland Foundat…The Reinberger Founda…The Swagelok Foundati…The Lozick Family Fou…The George Gund Found…The Sk Wellman Founda…Fred a Lennon Charita…The Louise H & David …The Char and Chuck Fo…The Helen F & Louis S…Murphy Family Foundat…The Catherine L & Edw…
The Cleveland FoundationOH86.2× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.

    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 163 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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