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Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees
Its FY2024 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: 42% of TOAN-O'BRIEN FOUNDATION BARRETT TOAN & PAULA O'BRIEN TTEES’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 · FY2023
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $318k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $187,500 |
| NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS | $80,000 |
| ASHEVILLE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| FEEDING AMERICA | $10,000 |
| CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SANTA FE | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND | $5,000 |
| WILDEARTH GUARDIANS | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSTY AND MEDICINE | $2,500 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $75k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 22 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
KENYON COLLEGE6× · 2017–2022 · $4.5M · revenue +23%- ACAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO7× · 2017–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +165% · 85% of their budget
- ASASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AGA GROWING CULTUREone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +4% · 31% of their budget
- JSJUNKYARD SOCIAL CLUBgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +116% · 30% of their budget
- SNSOPHIE'S NEIGHBORHOODone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -79%
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
The santa fe community foundation inspires philanthropic generosity, strengthens nonprofits, and fosters positive change to build a more vibrant, healthy, and resilient region. the foundation's vision is a thriving northern new mexico,…
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
To acquire and preserve america's most important archaeological sites. the conservancy identifies important endangered sites, acquires the property by purchase, gift, or bargain sale from donors, secures the property, stabilizes the…
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Colorado open lands' mission is to preserve the significant open lands and natural heritage of colorado through private and public partnerships, innovative land conservation, and strategic leadership.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sophie's Neighborhood. 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.
41 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. 41 of the 55 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 KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The New City School Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SITE SANTA FE ↗
- Who funds THE CONSCIOUS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds A GROWING CULTURE ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WRIGHT OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNKYARD SOCIAL CLUB ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THINK NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds SOPHIE'S NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGH COUNTRY NEWS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD DEPOT ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BLUE BENCH ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds RIDGWAY CHAUTAUQUA DBA THE NEW SHERBINO THEATER ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
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: Thornburg Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Colorado Gives Foundation · The Klein Foundation · The Sulica Fund Inc · Bolene Charitable Trust · Carl & Marilynn Thoma 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 Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees 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.
- St John's College — 2% 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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