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Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$310k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$285kSocial Science$250kInternational$135kArts & Culture$80kHousing & Shelter$70kEducation$47kHuman Services$45kCrime & Legal$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL$250,000
THE POPOVOX FOUNDATION$50,000
VERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM$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 (FY17–23, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CELEBRATION NATION INC: $25k → 8%CELEBRATION NATION: $20k → 8%AT THE CROSSROADS: $5k → 10%WATER DROP LA: $10k → 14%SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $25k → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $35k → 17%SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $15k → 17%SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $20k → 14%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $15k → 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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$515k · 6 repeat orgs$532k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +153% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
15

Total granted

$515k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+153%
-12%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $310k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalInternationalSocial ScienceOther
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

  • TD
    Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline
    7× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +710%
  • Homeless Prenatal Program Inc
    7× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +153%
  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $90k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -5%
  • OA
    ONE ACRE FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +65%
  • EJ
    Essie Justice Group
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -12%
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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
4
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
7
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
8
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
9
Hollywood Food Coalition

Hollywood food coalition welcomes people to dinner each night. we rescue and redistribute food daily to other organizations. we care for our immediate community through our wellness program. we build community with and through our…

—
10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
12
Community Credit Lab

To support equitable access to economic opportunities for immigrants, refugees, low-income, marginalized, and underserved communities in king county and the united states.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donorschooseorg; the most unlike its peers is Hope for Haiti. 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

21 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. 21 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Translifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $145,000 · HealthTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeli…Homeless Prenatal Program Inc: $140,000 · HealthHomeless Prenatal Program IncSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $250,000 · Social ScienceSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COU…INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE A…SELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $65,000 · Human ServicesSELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOME…CELEBRATION NATION INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesCELEBRATION NATION INCWATER DROP: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE POPOVOX FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherTHE POPOVOX FOUN…Barre Historical Society: $30,000 · OtherBarre Historical…ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY C…Individual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant…GOBIN MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherGOBIN MEMORIAL M…SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $10,000 · OtherSOUTH YUBA RIVER…DONORSCHOOSEORG: $25,000 · EducationTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationVERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 · EducationNEW SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (NSSF): $7,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $5,000 · EducationONE ACRE FUND: $25,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR HAITI: $15,000 · InternationalEssie Justice Group: $25,000 · Crime & LegalBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalKARAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Health$285,000Social Science$250,000Human Services$215,000Other$155,000Education$57,000International$40,000Crime & Legal$40,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL: $250,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTranslifeline DBA Trans Lifeline: $145,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $140,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSELAH NEIGHBORHOOD HOMELESS COALITION: $65,000 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetCELEBRATION NATION INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBarre Historical Society: $30,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ACRE FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEssie Justice Group: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVERMONT ENERGY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWATER DROP: $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetNEW SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO (NSSF): $7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…California Community …Paypal Charitable Giv…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Charities Aid Foundat…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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'Reilly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The O'Reilly 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%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Vermont Energy Education Program Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The O'Reilly Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The O'Reilly Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 24 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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