Skip to content

California · Private foundation

The OShea Foundation

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.

$377k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
23
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$72,550
Organizations funded a year
21 to 27
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$5.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The OShea Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentReligionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$376k4%
FY202323$466k0%
FY202227$442k44%
FY202124$380k21%
FY202021$358k24%
FY201922$364k0%
FY201827$337k37%
FY201722$317kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$1.7MHuman Services$504kReligion$323kPhilanthropy$254kHousing & Shelter$130kHealth$92kYouth Development$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Immaculate Conception Academy$287,5008n/a
Foundation for Students Rising Above$128,50061%
Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope$127,5007n/a
St Anthony Foundation$104,7508n/a
Come to Believe Foundation$100,00042%
University of San Francisco$95,00060%
Holy Family Day Home$88,00080%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc$86,50080%
Community Initiatives$77,25080%
Salesian Boys and Girls Club$44,20030%
Show all 25 grantees
All grantees of The OShea Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Immaculate Conception Academy$287,5008n/a
Foundation for Students Rising Above$128,50061%
Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope$127,5007n/a
St Anthony Foundation$104,7508n/a
Come to Believe Foundation$100,00042%
University of San Francisco$95,00060%
Holy Family Day Home$88,00080%
Homeless Prenatal Program Inc$86,50080%
Community Initiatives$77,25080%
Salesian Boys and Girls Club$44,20030%
Saint Mary's College of California$36,00070%
St Mary's High School$32,50070%
Sacred Heart Schools Atherton$20,0003n/a
The Gubbio Project Inc$20,0002n/a
Archbishop Riordan High School$16,0003n/a
Mercy Housing California$15,00010%
Catholic Relief Services$10,0001n/a
Society of St Vincent de Paul Particular Council of San Mateo Inc$10,00010%
Ignatian Corporation Saint Ignatius High School$7,5003n/a
Olympic Club Foundation$7,50020%
The Little Spanish English School$6,5002n/a
Villa Siena Foundation$5,00012%
The Salvation Army$5,0001n/a
Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth$2,50010%
Community Music Center$2,50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The OShea Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFoundation for Students Rising Above: $128,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCome to Believe Foundation: $100,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $95,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Family Day Home: $88,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $86,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Initiatives: $77,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSalesian Boys and Girls Club: $44,200 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSaint Mary's College of California: $36,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's High School: $32,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Housing California: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul Particular Council of San Mateo Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOlympic Club Foundation: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVilla Siena Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMount St Joseph-St Elizabeth: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Music Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 15.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert FoundationCA26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Trust Funds Incorporated · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Joseph & Mercedes McMicking Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Yvonne and Angelo Sangiacomo Family Foundation · Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tua-Main · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · McNabb 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.

Compare The OShea Foundation with peer funders

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The OShea Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The OShea 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.

About The OShea Foundation

How much does The OShea Foundation give?
The OShea Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $377,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 27 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The OShea Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (55%), Human Services (17%), Religion (11%).
Who are The OShea Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Immaculate Conception Academy ($288k), Foundation for Students Rising Above ($129k), Dominican Sisters Vision of Hope ($128k).
Does The OShea Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The OShea 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 OShea Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Trust Funds Incorporated.
Where is The OShea Foundation based?
The OShea Foundation is based in CA.

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 56 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.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on OShea’s filings →

More from the funding graph