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The O'Neill 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LICKING COUNTY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| LICKING MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NEWARK | $26,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AND THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY NEWARK | $25,000 |
| NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY | $7,500 |
| COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS | $6,000 |
| FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY | $6,000 |
| PELOTONIA | $3,500 |
| NEWARK GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| ST VINCENT HAVEN - ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOUSING FACILITIES INC | $1,100 |
| BUCKEYE FAMILY YMCA | $1,000 |
| GRANVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The O'Neill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in OH; read by stated purpose it is 87% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +61% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 16 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- NDNEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS5× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +755%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO6× · 2017–2024 · $80k · revenue +93%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC5× · 2019–2025 · $79k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $222k
- BFBeginning Futures 2 Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +559%
- TBTHE BRYN DU COMMISSIONone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -54%
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.
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.
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.
To coordinate and promote economic development on a county wide basis among all of the political subdivisions of portage county, ohio.
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.
To lead and equip ohio philanthropy to be effective partners for change in our communities.
Empowering and strengthening ohio's people (esop) helps adults in all stages of life achieve and maintain financial wellness and housing stability.
Empower the people of greater cleveland to achieve success through technology, innovation and connected community.
Transforming generosity into impact by encouraging, supporting, and facilitating philanthropy to create more vibrant communities in northern cincinnati.
To develop and promote economic development, talent initiatives and the unique offerings in the cincinnati region.
The fund for our economic future is a creative space for philanthropic funders and civic leaders to explore what matters and implement what works to achieve equitable economic growth, emphasizing systemic, long-term change.
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…
Revitalization of the area immediately adjacent to the ohio state university's main campus in columbus, ohio.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Licking County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kingdom Pillars. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 12% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 44 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 NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - MIDOHIO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF COLUMBUS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LICKING MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEWARK CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NAIOP RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAI ↗
- Who funds THE WORKS - OHIO CENTER FOR HISTORY ART & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds Beginning Futures 2 Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BRYN DU COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH AMERICA OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NEWARK SPORT & EVENT COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds PAR EXCELLENCE LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM PILLARS ↗
- Who funds NEWARK-GRANVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS OHIO INC ↗
- Who funds DENISON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GRANVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Granville Athletic Boosters ↗
- Who funds GRANVILLE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LICKING COUNTY COALITION FOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds NEWARK ROTARY CLUB 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: Licking County Foundation Inc · The Lindorf Family Foundation · Park National Corporation Foundation · First Federal Foundation · The John and Mary Alford Foundation · Licking Memorial Health Foundation · The Patricia R and Herbert J Murphy Foundation · The Englefield Foundation · Energy Cooperative Roundup Foundation Inc · Columbus Foundation · The Lefevre Foundation · The Gilbert Reese Family 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 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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