How much does The O'Shea Family Foundation give?

The O'Shea Family Foundation reported 57 itemized grants totaling $2,161,400, out of $2,826,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does The O'Shea Family Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Education (9%), Human Services (2%).

Who are The O'Shea Family Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Fordham University ($914k), Charity Navigator ($170k), Buildon Inc ($148k).

Does The O'Shea Family Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The O'Shea Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The O'Shea Family Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbia Bank Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.

Where is The O'Shea Family Foundation based?

The O'Shea Family Foundation is based in NJ.

Foundation Dossiers

New Jersey · Private foundation

The O'Shea Family 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.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 57
Itemized grants FY2024: 49
Organizations funded FY2023: 86%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $2.2M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $700,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 49; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 11
Total assets, FY2024: $56M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 86% of the organizations The O'Shea Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	51	$1.5M	22%
FY2023	49	$1.6M	86%
FY2022	12	$429k	92%
FY2019	17	$109k	n/a

93% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.4MEducation$1.4MHuman Services$412kInternational$368kHealth$350kHousing & Shelter$165kReligion$147kYouth Development$100kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fordham University	$913,500	3	0%
Charity Navigator	$170,000	4	1%
Buildon Inc	$147,500	2	0%
Wyckoff Family YMCA	$130,800	3	0%
Steer for Student Athletes Inc	$100,000	2	4%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$90,000	2	0%
Technoserve Inc	$85,000	2	0%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc	$85,000	2	0%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation	$80,000	2	0%
Cristo Rey New York High School	$75,000	2	1%

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All grantees of The O'Shea Family Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fordham University	$913,500	3	0%
Charity Navigator	$170,000	4	1%
Buildon Inc	$147,500	2	0%
Wyckoff Family YMCA	$130,800	3	0%
Steer for Student Athletes Inc	$100,000	2	4%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc	$90,000	2	0%
Technoserve Inc	$85,000	2	0%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc	$85,000	2	0%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation	$80,000	2	0%
Cristo Rey New York High School	$75,000	2	1%
Covenant House	$75,000	1	0%
Brother's Brother Foundation	$70,000	2	0%
The Bottom Line Inc	$70,000	2	0%
City Year Inc	$70,000	2	0%
The Armory Foundation	$70,000	2	0%
Fisher House Foundation Inc	$70,000	2	0%
The Posse Foundation Inc	$65,000	2	0%
United Way of Bergen County	$60,000	2	0%
Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Inc	$60,000	2	0%
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc	$60,000	2	0%
Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc	$55,000	2	0%
Hope For The Warriors	$55,000	2	0%
Catholic Charities USA	$55,000	2	n/a
Catholic Relief Services	$55,000	2	n/a
The Valley Hospital Foundation Inc	$50,000	2	0%
The Salvation Army	$47,500	2	n/a
Christian Health Care Center	$45,000	2	0%
Part of the Solution	$35,000	3	0%
Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties	$25,000	1	0%
Prostate Cancer Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
Several Sources Shelters Inc	$20,000	2	1%
Lighthouse Pregnancy Resource Center Inc	$18,000	2	0%
Renew Life Center Inc	$17,000	2	5%
Human Development Services Westchester Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation	$15,000	2	0%
The Wellspring Foundation Inc	$15,000	1	0%
One Mind Foundation	$15,000	1	6%
Center for Hope and Safety Inc	$11,000	2	0%
High Mountain Presbyterian Church	$10,500	3	n/a
Cornerstone Project Inc	$10,000	1	6%
William Paterson University of New Jersey Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Cardinal Hayes High School	$10,000	1	n/a
Foundation for African Medicine and Educ	$10,000	1	0%
Food Allergy Research & Education Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Star of Hope Ministries Inc	$9,000	2	n/a
Julia's Butterfly Foundation Inc	$7,500	3	2%
Bergen Catholic High School	$7,000	1	n/a
Rare Village Foundation	$7,000	1	1%
Christopher Barron Live Life Foundation	$6,000	2	n/a
Bergen Catholic High School Alumni Association Inc	$5,400	1	3%
The Marfan Foundation Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Young Men's Christian Association of Ridgewood New Jersey	$5,000	1	0%
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Promisek Incorporated	$2,500	1	2%
Tour De Force Bike Ride Inc	$2,000	1	0%
The Ben Landel foundation	$2,000	1	n/a
The Eye Cancer Foundation Inc	$2,000	1	0%
ALG Family Foundation	$2,000	1	4%
Unbridled Heroes Project	$1,500	1	n/a
The Mental Health Association of New York City Inc	$1,000	1	0%
Children's Miracle Network	$1,000	1	0%
Academy of Our Lady Father's Guild	$500	1	0%
Kundalini Research Institute	$250	1	0%
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro New York and Western New York	$250	1	0%
Sunflower of Peace Foundation Inc	$25	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($314k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The O'Shea Family Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 55.

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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.

Columbia Bank FoundationNJ24.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Columbia Bank Foundation · Verizon Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Serviam Foundation Inc · Table to Table Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Mutual of America Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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.

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About The O'Shea Family Foundation

How much does The O'Shea Family Foundation give?: The O'Shea Family Foundation reported 57 itemized grants totaling $2,161,400, out of $2,826,400 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 49 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The O'Shea Family Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (44%), Education (9%), Human Services (2%).
Who are The O'Shea Family Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Fordham University ($914k), Charity Navigator ($170k), Buildon Inc ($148k).
Does The O'Shea Family Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 86% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The O'Shea Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The O'Shea Family Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Columbia Bank Foundation, Verizon Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
Where is The O'Shea Family Foundation based?: The O'Shea Family Foundation is based in NJ.