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The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$500
Largest grant, FY2023
$500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 25
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$543k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsOther
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
FY20232$1k50%
FY20223$8k33%
FY20218$35k63%
FY202025$51k84%
FY20194$2k75%
FY20182$320100%
FY20173$1kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$59kEducation$57kFood & Nutrition$14kHuman Services$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kRecreation & Sports$2kPhilanthropy$2kArts & Culture$1kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
TN
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 24 grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($73k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNorthwest Harvest Emm: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiteracyworks: $2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $1,514 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedic One Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $1,187 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetClallam Mosaic: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAssumption University: $950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Connecticut Inc: $804 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFarmlink Project: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Greater New Haven Inc: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSymphonicity-The Symphony Orchestra of Virginia Beach: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDale City Volunteer Fire Department: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHampton Roads Educational Telecommunications Association Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Symphony Orchestra: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Stage Company: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Opera Association Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 22.

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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 Helen G Gifford FoundationVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Helen G Gifford Foundation · Goode Family Foundation · Business Consortium for Arts Support · Townebank Foundation · Tidewater Jewish Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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.

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How do I get to The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Tom & Claire ONeil 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 Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation

How much does The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation give?
The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $1,253 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (41%), Education (39%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
Who are The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Northwest Harvest Emm ($6k), Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc ($3k), Good Shepherd Food Bank ($3k).
Does The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Tom & Claire ONeil 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 Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Helen G Gifford Foundation, Goode Family Foundation, Business Consortium for Arts Support.
Where is The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation based?
The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation is based in CT.

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 39 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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