· Private foundation
The William F O'Connor Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WTTW CHANNEL 11 | $110,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FUND | $25,000 |
| ST COLETTA'S OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MISSION OF OUR LADY OF MERCY-MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS | $10,000 |
| CHICAGO JESUIT ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| CLUB OF HEARTS INC | $10,000 |
| ST PATRICK HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| READING POWER INC | $10,000 |
| HAZELDEN BETTY FORD | $7,500 |
| LOYOLA ACADEMY | $7,000 |
| BIG SHOULDERS FUND | $5,000 |
| CHICAGO HISTORY MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| BROTHER DAN'S FOOD PANTRY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame3× · 2021–2023 · $36k · revenue +15%
- COCLUB OF HEARTS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +9%
MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +680%
Funded once
- MHMERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLSone grant, 2021 · $5k
- OLOUR LADY OF MERCY PARISHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- ICIMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
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.
The foundation for catholic secondary education exists to financially support education programs of catholic central high school and west catholic high through tuition assistance, faculty enhancement and program/facilities
Notre dame schools will engage students from preschool through high school in an exceptional catholic education. we will focus on loving, respecting, and educating all to discover and develop their god-given talents. we will challenge our…
The mission of misericordia home is to support children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities who choose our community by providing the highest quality residential, training, and employment services. we provide the…
As an affiliate of commonspirit health, we make the healing presence of god known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all.
Raise money to support marist high school
The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…
Cardinal stritch university is a comprehensive, coeducational, institution offering educational programs leading to associate, baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines provided through its three colleges:…
College of the holy cross is a private, jesuit, catholic, liberal arts college (see schedule o).
The university of dayton is a top-tier independent, catholic research educational institution founded in 1850. the primary exempt purpose is providing post secondary education through undergraduate, graduate, doctoral and continuing…
St. marys university, as a catholic marianist university, fosters the formation of people in faith and educates leaders for the common good through community, integrated liberal arts and professional education, and academic excellence.
Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of god.
The benedictine foundation (formerly benedictine health system foundation) was established to coordinate, encourage, motivate and support the fund development activity effort within benedictine health system and its supported organizations.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 42 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST COLETTAS OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame ↗
- Who funds CLUB OF HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Big Shoulders Fund ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds READING POWER INC ↗
- Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
- Who funds HOPE IGNITES CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds DUNEBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds Bear Necessities Pediatric Cancer Foundation ↗
- Who funds BONITA SPRINGS ASSISTANCE OFFICE INC ↗
- Who funds DESERT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ART LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PALETTE AND CHISEL ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William F O'Connor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William F O'Connor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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