Maryland · Private foundation
The W O'Neil Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 70
- Grants FY2025
- 55
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 65
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $39M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The W O'Neil Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 69 | $2.5M | 30% |
| FY2024 | 55 | $1.8M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 61 | $2.5M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $3.0M | 35% |
| FY2021 | 56 | $3.1M | 18% |
| FY2020 | 65 | $3.0M | 62% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Relief Services | $7,500,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities USA | $625,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Haitian Health Foundation | $445,000 | 7 | 2% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $405,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Washington School for Girls | $345,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Washington Jesuit Academy | $323,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Washington | $310,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friendship Place | $255,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Missio Corp | $235,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Operation Smile Inc | $225,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 111 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The W O'Neil Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · World Bank Community Connections Fund · William S Abell Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust
How this is measured
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About The W O'Neil Foundation
- How much does The W O'Neil Foundation give?
- The W O'Neil Foundation reported 70 grants totaling $2,491,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 65 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does The W O'Neil Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (45%), Education (12%), International (9%).
- Who are The W O'Neil Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Catholic Relief Services ($7.5M), Catholic Charities USA ($625k), Haitian Health Foundation ($445k).
- Does The W O'Neil Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The W O'Neil Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The W O'Neil Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc, Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation.
- Where is The W O'Neil Foundation based?
- The W O'Neil Foundation is based in MD.
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