· Private foundation
Thomas & Maureen Oconnor Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of THOMAS & MAUREEN OCONNOR FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $107k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARBOR HOUSE - KANKAKEE IL | $40,000 |
| BISHOP MCNAMARA CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $34,000 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC PARISH | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $16,400 |
| CHILD NETWORK | $8,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH | $8,000 |
| MERCY HOME FOR BOYS GIRLS | $6,000 |
| CENTER OF HOPE FOOD PANTRY | $6,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $6,000 |
| IL STATE COUNCIL K OF C CHARITIES | $5,000 |
| FORTITUDE COMMUNITY OUTREACH | $5,000 |
| ST ROSE OF LIMA CHAPEL | $5,000 |
| KANKAKEE AREA YMCA | $5,000 |
| KANKAKEE COUNTY SHERRIFS SAFETY FD | $5,000 |
| UPLIFTED CARE | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of your 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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- CNCHILD NETWORK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +100%
- FCFortitude Community Outreach4× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +39%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEE5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- KCKANKAKEE COUNTY CORONER-NARCANone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ASAMITA ST MARYS HOSPITAL AUXILIARYone grant, 2022 · $4k
- KCKANKAKEE COUNTY CORONER-NARCONone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
Kane community hospital foundation supports the people of upmc kane and their communities by providing access to financial resources to be used towards education and services aimed to enhance health and wellness within our region
Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…
Villa st francis, a catholic, non-profit skilled nursing facility sponsored by the archdiocese of kansas city in olathe, provides dementia care, skilled nursing, respite, and hospice.
Cherishing life's journey through an extraordinary commitment to compassion, comfort and holistic care.
We deliver a healthcare experience that consistently exceeds patients' expectations through exceptional people - our people are our foundation. we employ trusted, dedicated professionals who serve with compassion, empathy and respect.…
To advocate for and support hospitals and health systems as they serve patients and communities in illinois.
To receive contributions for the purpose of assisting the riverview healthcare association to provide to the residents of its service area quality healthcare and related health services, education, research, promotion of health and other…
None.
Conway hospital community services provides outpatient health care services to horry county and the surrounding community in conjunction with conway hospital, inc., a non-profit acute care hospital system.
At deaconess health system, our values are based on our commitment to quality. we define quality as the continuous improvement of services to meet the needs and exceed the expectations of the customers we serve. continued on schedule oour…
Lead the transformation of healthcare through quality, innovation & education, and make Indiana one of the nation's healthiest states.
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Franciscan Health Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the Preservation of Flossmoor History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
16 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. 16 of the 63 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 CHILD NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Fortitude Community Outreach ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF KANKAKEE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KANKAKEE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD MANOR INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVET NAZARENE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KANKAKEE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds River Valley Special Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds DUANE DEAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
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: Iroquois Federal Foundation Inc · The Dennis J Smith Legacy Foundation Inc · Midland States Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 & Maureen Oconnor Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.