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The Ohnell Family Foundation at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.5MArts & Culture$2.7MYouth Development$1.9MPublic Benefit$1.3MInternational$880kHuman Services$839kHousing & Shelter$835kHealth$466kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $650k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
VMTS EDUCATION$50,000
BOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART$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
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 (FY17–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CITY HOUSE: $100k → 5%THE SEWING MACHINE PROJECT: $6k → 10%CITY HOUSE: $50k → 5%CITY HOUSE: $27k → 5%RIVER HOUSE: $25k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $460k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $344k → 14%RIVER HOUSE: $10k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $265k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $155k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $126k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $100k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $60k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $55k → 14%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%NEIGHBORS LINK: $1k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $50k → 9%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
DC
OK
LA
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$13M · 67 repeat orgs$783k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +26% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
39

Total granted

$13M
$732k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+26%

Still filing today

69%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +21%
  • CI
    CATO INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2025 · $785k · revenue +70%
  • PI
    PATHWAYS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $623k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CR
    CICERO RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +2%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TH
    THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +26%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
6
New York School of Interior Design

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…

Education
7
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
8
Wheaton College

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…

Education
9
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
11
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Urban Dove Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

65 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/65
Grantees still filing
48/65
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY: $1,150,000 · OtherMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICYUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $420,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INCRIVER HOUSE ADULT DAY CARE CENTER: $290,000 · OtherRIVER HOUSE ADULT DAY CARE CENTERCAREMOOR RETIREMENT CENTER: $175,000 · OtherCARAMOOR CENTER: $155,000 · OtherMOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY: $262,000 · OtherMOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORYTHE URBAN DOVE INC: $255,000 · OtherTHE URBAN DOVE INCPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $205,000 · Other+59 more: $1,487,500 · Other+59 moreBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $1,570,000 · Arts & CultureBOCA RATON MUSEUM O…VMTS EDUCATION INC: $425,000 · Arts & CultureVMTS EDUCATION INCSTORM KING ART CENTER: $135,000 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENT…CICERO RESEARCH: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $90,500 · Arts & CultureWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $1,675,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON COLLEG…AMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $160,000 · EducationAMERICAN TRANSPAR…BLAIR ACADEMY: $90,000 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $75,000 · Education+5 more: $132,500 · Education+5 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC: $1,585,000 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS …CITY HOUSE INC: $177,000 · Human ServicesCITY HOUSE INC+5 more: $97,000 · Human ServicesCATO INSTITUTE: $785,000 · Public BenefitMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $277,500 · Public BenefitThe Small Things Inc: $880,000 · International+2 more: $45,000 · InternationalPATHWAYS INC: $622,500 · HealthGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $60,000 · HealthABILIS INC: $50,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $26,500 · Health+4 more: $24,000 · Health
Other$4,399,500Arts & Culture$2,320,500Education$2,132,500Human Services$1,859,000Public Benefit$1,062,500International$925,000Health$783,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES: $1,675,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEWBURGH INC: $1,585,000 over 9y, 19% of budgetBOCA RATON MUSEUM OF ART: $1,570,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetThe Small Things Inc: $880,000 over 9y, 45% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE: $785,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPATHWAYS INC: $622,500 over 9y, 18% of budgetVMTS EDUCATION INC: $425,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC: $420,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC: $277,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY: $262,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetTHE URBAN DOVE INC: $255,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $205,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCITY HOUSE INC: $177,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN TRANSPARENCY: $160,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $135,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCICERO RESEARCH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBLAIR ACADEMY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH TOWN PARTY INC: $72,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetGREENWICH HOSPITAL: $60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUATX: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetABILIS INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEW JERSEY ORATORS INC: $37,500 over 7y, 8.6% of budgetRIVER HOUSE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND EXPRESSION INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $26,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEWBURGH MINISTRY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENT THOUGHT: $25,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetJORGE M PEREZ ART MUSEUM OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEPHCURE KIDNEY INTERNATIONAL: $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALVIN COOLIDGE PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAND TO LEARN: $15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSOCRATES SCULPTURE PARK INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAEROBRIDGE CO MARIANNE STEVENSON: $15,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetMANHATTANVILLE UNIVERSITY: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE WORKFIRST FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPURCHASE COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds UATX ↗
  • Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗

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.

Jewish Communal FundDonors Trust IncThomas W Smith Founda…The Searle Freedom Tr…Bradley Impact Fund I…The William J and Fra…Sarah Scaife Foundati…Beth and Ravenel Curr…The Lynde and Harry B…Charles Koch Foundati…Fairfield County's Co…The Bessemer Giving F…
Jewish Communal FundNY25.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Ohnell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ohnell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.

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 109 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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