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The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation at a glance

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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
States reached
$500
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% 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
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$543k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Yale University$500
Special Olympics DC$500
Yale School of Medicine$253
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 (FY19–21, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Bedford Community TablePantry: $3k → 8%Camp KeSem: $1k → 14%The Farmlink Project: $515 → 17%Clallam Mosaic: $1k → 12%Camp KeSem: $514 → 14%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
WA
NY
MA
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
VA
TN
DC
TX
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$64k · 8 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +120% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
27

Total granted

$64k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+120%
+21%

Still filing today

50%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsOther
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

  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1k · revenue +159%
  • AU
    ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2020 · $950 · revenue +9%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $804 · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • NH
    NORTHWEST HARVEST EMM
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -35%
  • PA
    Portsmouth Abbey School
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • BC
    BEDFORD COMMUNITY TABLE-PANTRY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · 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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The mission of the edward via college of osteopathic medicine (vcom) is to prepare globally-minded, community-focused physicians to meet the needs of rural and medically underserved populations and promote research to improve human health.

Education
4
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
5
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
6
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
7
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
8
Vermont Public Co

Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.

Arts & Culture
9
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
12
Sentara Health

We improve health every day through coordinating, promoting and planning for the provision of health services and the promotion of health, medical education, and the social, cultural, educational, and economic development of the community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater New Haven Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clallam Mosaic. 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

26 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. 26 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UT Southwestern Medical Center: $57,140 · OtherUT Southwestern Medical CenterNORTHWEST HARVEST EMM: $6,000 · OtherNORTHWEST HARVEST EMMPortsmouth Abbey School: $6,000 · OtherPortsmouth Abbey SchoolCOTS: $2,953 · Other+17 more: $10,161 · Other+17 moreYale University: $45,677 · EducationYale UniversityLITERACYWORKS: $2,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,750 · Education+1 more: $950 · EducationBEDFORD COMMUNITY TABLE-PANTRY INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National: $1,514 · Human ServicesCLALLAM MOSAIC: $1,000 · Human ServicesFARMLINK PROJECT: $515 · Human ServicesGood Shepherd Food Bank: $3,000 · Food & NutritionMEDIC ONE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $500 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $250 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 · HealthHAMPTON ROADS EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION INC: $250 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $250 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA STAGE COMPANY: $125 · Arts & CultureVIRGINIA OPERA ASSOCIATION INC: $125 · Arts & CultureTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $500 · Animals
Other$82,254Education$50,377Human Services$6,029Food & Nutrition$3,000Health$2,350Arts & Culture$750Animals$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYale University: $45,677 over 3y, 0.0% of 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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $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
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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Helen G Gifford F…Goode Family Foundati…Business Consortium f…Townebank FoundationTidewater Jewish Foun…Hampton Roads Communi…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tom & Claire ONeil Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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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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.

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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