· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $209k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| De Marillac Academy | $72,550 |
| St Peter School | $52,500 |
| ICA Cristo Rey Academy | $45,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul - San Francisco | $35,000 |
| Come to Believe Network | $25,000 |
| St Anthony Foundation | $18,000 |
| Salesian Boys Club | $15,700 |
| Riordan High School | $15,000 |
| St Ignatius | $15,000 |
| Mercy Housing of California | $10,000 |
| Holy Family Day Home | $10,000 |
| Sacred Heart Schools | $10,000 |
| Homeless Prenatal Program | $10,000 |
| USF | $5,000 |
| Father Sauer Academy | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
39 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FFFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE6× · 2017–2022 · $129k · revenue +17%
- CTCOME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +92%
University of San Francisco6× · 2017–2023 · $95k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- MCMercy Centerone grant, 2021 · $25k
- SOSchool of the Sacred Heart Athertonone grant, 2021 · $20k
- MHMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIAone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue -3%
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.
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The student union, through its programs and facilities, is a focal point of the campus through assisting in the retention and development of students while encouraging a deeper understanding and appreciation of cultural pluralism, gender…
The Sobrato Foundation supports nonprofits and social impact organizations serving at-risk and vulnerable members of our community. The Foundation also makes investments to support philanthropic activities recommended by individual Sobrato…
Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.
Cristo rey san jose is a jesuit, catholic college-prep high school that combines rigorous academics with professional work internships, preparing students from underserved communities in silicon valley to (see schedule o)pursue college and…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds COME TO BELIEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GUBBIO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA ↗
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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The OShea Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The OShea Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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