· Private foundation
The W O'Neil Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $1,000,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES USA | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE WASHINGTON INC | $65,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK | $60,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $50,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF VOLUNTEERS IN INTERNATIONAL SERVICE USA INC | $45,000 |
| WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS | $45,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP PLACE | $45,000 |
| WASHINGTON JESUIT ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USA | $40,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE INC | $40,000 |
| HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| MISSIO CORP | $40,000 |
| RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| DON BOSCO CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON INC | $30,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $875k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of The W O'Neil Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 48% of the giving stays in MD; read by stated purpose it is 46% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
80 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $423k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $405k · revenue +21%- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON4× · 2019–2025 · $310k · revenue +29%
- FPFriendship Place7× · 2019–2025 · $255k · revenue +138%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -4%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES NEW YORKone grant, 2022 · $50k
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To save lives & relieve suffering through health interventions & related activities that strengthen communities affected by conflict, natural disasters & disease outbreaks.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
The organization's mission is to build partnerships to enhance compassionate care globally. we are dedicated to improving access to hospice and palliative care worldwide.
Pathfinder expands access to sexual and reproductive health services, opening the door to opportunities for women and all individuals to thrive-economically, educationally, and civically. driven by our country-led leadership and local…
To conduct and support programs and activities aimed at solving some of the world's greatest public health challenges, with a specific focus on enabling health workers to have the greatest possible impact on the health of the people they…
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. the women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in…
Helping people move to a better life through hope-filled care, services, and advocacy; calling all those of goodwill to join us
Chi prepares graduates of the christel house schools operated by its affiliated entities, which chi funds and oversees, to achieve upward economic mobility, demonstrate good citizenship, and become empowered to identify and realize their…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sherman Higher Education Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
94 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 94 of the 144 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds Friendship Place ↗
- Who funds MISSIO CORP ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds TOGO MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP-AFGHANISTAN INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds DEPAUL USA INC ↗
- Who funds MEDS & FOOD FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds THE FATHER MCKENNA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The W O'Neil Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- St Anns Center for Children Youth and Families — 6% of income from government
- National Center for Children and Families — 2% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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