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Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$188k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2024
31
Organizations funded FY2023
61%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 33
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$1.7M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $86k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving35$188k54%
FY202331$177k61%
FY202226$136k58%
FY202124$135k58%
FY202033$146k58%
FY201932$171k44%
FY201826$125k50%
FY201727$198kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MScience & Tech$10kEmployment$10kYouth Development$9kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$5kHealth$5kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NC
SC
AL
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

Individual grant recipient$15,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Individual grant recipient$9,606
VINCENT TIERNEY$6,458
Individual grant recipient$6,402
Individual grant recipient$6,000
Individual grant recipient$5,935
Individual grant recipient$5,168
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000

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Find your warmest path to Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund 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.

About Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund

How much does Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund give?
Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund reported 36 grants totaling $187,617 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (96%), Science & Tech (1%), Employment (1%).
Does Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund based?
Thomas R O'Donnell Scholarship Fund is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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