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The Paul H O'Neill Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Paul H O'Neill Charitable 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.

$310k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$505kEducation$381kSocial Science$125kPublic Benefit$70kArts & Culture$55kPhilanthropy$30kHuman Services$10kReligion$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$24,780
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIVER LIFE$150,000
GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FUND$50,000
RAND CORPORATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY$24,780
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
WEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATION$10,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION$5,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $25k → 11%CALIFORNIA STATE FRESNO: $15k → 19%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $6k → 17%GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FUND: $50k → 11%CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%INDIANA UNIVERSITY: $200k → 18%WEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATION: $25k → 10%ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCATION: $5k → 14%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $25k → 11%CALIFORNIA STATE FRESNO: $5k → 19%COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL: $5k → 17%GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FUND: $10k → 11%WEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $25k → 11%THE WARHOL: $25k → 17%GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FUND: $10k → 11%WEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $25k → 11%THE FORD FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%WEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%TULL FAMILY THEATER: $30k → 11%WEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%LAUGHLIN CENTER: $5k → 11%LAUGHLIN CENTER: $5k → 11%RIVER LIFE: $150k → 11%RIVER LIFE: $150k → 11%RIVER LIFE: $150k → 11%RIVER LIFE: $50k → 11%RIVER LIFE: $5k → 11%INGOMAR LIVING WATERS: $10k → 11%INGOMAR LIVING WATERS: $10k → 11%HEINZ HISTORY CENTER: $20k → 11%INGOMAR LIVING WATERS: $10k → 11%UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PA: $5k → 11%INGOMAR UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $5k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5k → 11%WQED: $5k → 11%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

AK
IL
MI
NY
IN
PA
CA
VA
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$920k · 8 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +220% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$920k
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+220%
+11%

Still filing today

50%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
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

  • R
    RIVERLIFE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $505k · revenue +220%
  • The Rand Corporation
    4× · 2022–2025 · $125k · revenue +16%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +170%

Funded once

  • IU
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • VT
    VILLAGE THEATER COMPANY
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -45%
  • TF
    THE FORD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +21%
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
Point Park University

Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…

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2
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
3
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
4
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
5
Delaware Valley University

See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…

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6
Gettysburg College

Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.

Education
7
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
8
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
9
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy

The western pennsylvania conservancy protects and restores exceptional places to provide our region with clean waters and healthy forests, wildlife and natural areas for the benefit of present and future generations. the conservancy…

Environment
10
Widener University

Empowering our community of learners to discover and create better futures.

Education
11
Carnegie Institute

To preserve and expand the resources of art and science as agents of personal growth and social advancement in pittsburgh and beyond.

Arts & Culture
12
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Pittsburgh; the most unlike its peers is The Ford Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RIVERLIFE: $505,000 · EnvironmentRIVERLIFEIndiana University School of Medicine: $200,000 · OtherIndiana University School of Med…WEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherWEST ANCHORAGE HS FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+4 more: $30,000 · Other+4 moreTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $99,780 · EducationTHE NEIGHBORHOOD …GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationGERALD R FORD PRE…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF C…+2 more: $10,000 · EducationThe Rand Corporation: $125,000 · Public BenefitThe Rand Co…VILLAGE THEATER COMPANY: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWQED MULTIMEDIA: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FORD FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$505,000Other$365,000Education$190,780Public Benefit$125,000Arts & Culture$55,000Philanthropy$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRIVERLIFE: $505,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD ACADEMY: $99,780 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetVILLAGE THEATER COMPANY: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FORD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWQED MULTIMEDIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF SOUTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA: $5,000 over 1y, 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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Paul H O'Neill Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Paul H O'Neill Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to The Paul H O'Neill Charitable 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.

    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 21 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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