· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| NEWARK DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AND THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY NEWARK | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF LICKING COUNTY | $7,500 |
| FOOD PANTRY NETWORK OF LICKING COUNTY | $6,000 |
| COLUMBUS COUNCIL ON WORLD AFFAIRS | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of The O'Neill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in OH; by stated purpose, 87%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 44 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The O'Neill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The O'Neill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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