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Thomas M & Nancy H O'Neill Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$103k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

International$280kEducation$225kArts & Culture$73kHealth$37kPhilanthropy$35kRecreation & Sports$18kYouth Development$15kHousing & Shelter$11kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $100k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Galisano Children's Museum of Naples$40,000
Medicines for Humanity$35,000
Harvard College$25,000
The Joey Fund$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%My Brothers Keeper: $1k → 11%My Brother's Keeper: $1k → 11%Pine Street Inn: $2k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$633k · 14 repeat orgs$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +87% since the first grant, against +84% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
9

Total granted

$633k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+84%

Still filing today

64%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MF
    MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $280k · revenue +15%
  • GC
    GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +87%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +27%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Circle of Care
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • NC
    Naples Children's Museum
    one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
3
Children's Hospital Pathology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…

Health
4
Boston Pediatric Neurosurgical Foundation Inc

The Foundation provides neurosurgical services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field of…

Health
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Physicians Organization at Children's Hospital Inc

The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…

Health
7
Children's Medical Center Corporation

To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.

Health
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Children's Hospital Ophthalmology Foundation Inc

The Foundation's mission is to provide ophthalmology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the…

Health
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

11
Northeastern University
Education
12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naples Children Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC — $280,000 · InternationalMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INCHarvard College — $135,000 · OtherHarvard CollegeThe Joey Fund — $30,000 · OtherThe Joey FundFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC — $30,000 · OtherFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INCThe Tribe Club — $15,000 · OtherThe Tribe ClubNantucket Childrens Charity Golf Classic — $15,000 · OtherNantucket Childrens Charity Golf ClassicChildren's Hospital Circle of Care — $10,000 · OtherNaples Children's Museum — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $10,800 · OtherGOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC — $62,750 · Arts & CultureGOLISANO C…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,500 · EducationBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationThe Peter G Colton Memorial Fund — $7,500 · EducationDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $15,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation — $10,000 · HealthNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · PhilanthropyNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPINE STREET INN INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper Inc — $2,000 · Human ServicesROSIE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
International$280,000Other$255,800Arts & Culture$62,750Education$48,000Health$25,000Philanthropy$15,000Human Services$8,000Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC — $280,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetGOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC — $62,750 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $20,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Peter G Colton Memorial Fund — $7,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 MEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC
  • Who funds GOLISANO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF NAPLES INC
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • Who funds BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds The Peter G Colton Memorial Fund
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds NAPLES CHILDREN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Thomas M & Nancy H O'Neill 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Thomas M & Nancy H O'Neill Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Thomas M & Nancy H O'Neill 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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