Connecticut · 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $800,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 35 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Ohnell Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 38 | $1.9M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $2.1M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $1.8M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $1.6M | 14% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $1.9M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $1.2M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $890k | 29% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williamson College of the Trades | $1,675,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh Inc | $1,585,000 | 9 | 19% |
| Boca Raton Museum of Art | $1,570,000 | 9 | 12% |
| The Small Things Inc | $880,000 | 9 | 45% |
| Cato Institute | $785,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Pathways Inc | $622,500 | 9 | 18% |
| Vmts Education Inc | $425,000 | 6 | 4% |
| United Way of Greenwich Inc | $420,000 | 7 | 6% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $277,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Mount Washington Observatory | $262,000 | 5 | 4% |
Show all 66 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Ohnell Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 61 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
About The Ohnell Family Foundation
- How much does The Ohnell Family Foundation give?
- The Ohnell Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,946,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Ohnell Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Arts & Culture (20%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are The Ohnell Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Williamson College of the Trades ($1.7M), Boys and Girls Club of Newburgh Inc ($1.6M), Boca Raton Museum of Art ($1.6M).
- Does The Ohnell Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Ohnell 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 Ohnell Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Donors Trust Inc, Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Ohnell Family Foundation based?
- The Ohnell Family Foundation is based in CT.
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