· Private foundation
The Ohnell 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.
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 $10k15 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $650k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES | $800,000 |
| MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY | $250,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH | $155,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $150,000 |
| MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY | $75,000 |
| THE SMALL THINGS | $70,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF AUSTIN | $50,000 |
| BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART | $50,000 |
| VMTS EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| CITY HOUSE | $50,000 |
| STORM KING ART CENTER | $25,000 |
| CARAMOOR CENTER | $25,000 |
| YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR POLICY | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC HOUSE | $20,000 |
| COOLIDGE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +21%
- CICATO INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $785k · revenue +70%
- PIPATHWAYS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $623k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $100k
- CRCICERO RESEARCHone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +2%
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +26%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Urban Dove Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aerobridge Co Marianne Stevenson. 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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 109 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 WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds The Small Things Inc ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds VMTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN DOVE INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CICERO RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds BLAIR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds UATX ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Donors Trust Inc · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · The Searle Freedom Trust · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Charles Koch Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 Ohnell Family 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Pathways Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Jersey Orators Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Blair Academy — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
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.