Who are Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Kenyon College ($4.5M), American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico ($3.3M), Asheville School Inc ($1.1M).

Does Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thornburg Foundation, Gale Family Foundation, Albuquerque Community Foundation.

Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees

Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees at a glance

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Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees

Q: How much does Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees give?

Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees reported 12 grants totaling $363,000 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

Q: What does Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (49%), Civil Rights (25%), Health (15%).

Q: Does Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Q: Where is Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees based?

Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees is based in NM.

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.

$363k

Granted FY2023

Grants FY2023

States reached

$188k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$6.6MCivil Rights$3.3MHealth$2.0MArts & Culture$840kFood & Nutrition$418kEnvironment$187kAnimals$55kHuman Services$54kOther$0

02FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k7 grants · $26k
$10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$50k–250k3 grants · $318k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$34k

Total assets

Largest grants
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
COLLEGE BOUND	$5,000
BREAKTHROUGH SANTA FE	$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

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$13M · 32 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$13M

$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%

+24%

Still filing today

88%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureHealthAnimalsFood & NutritionOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

KENYON COLLEGE
6× · 2017–2022 · $4.5M · revenue +23%
AC
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF NEW MEXICO
7× · 2017–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +165% · 85% of their budget
AS
ASHEVILLE SCHOOL INC
6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +12%

Funded once

AG
A GROWING CULTURE
one grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue +4% · 31% of their budget
JS
JUNKYARD SOCIAL CLUBgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +116% · 30% of their budget
SN
SOPHIE'S NEIGHBORHOOD
one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -79%

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.

04Its field

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 Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Augustana College

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…

Education

National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals

Santa Fe Community Foundation

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,…

Philanthropy

Cuenca Los Ojos

Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.

Environment

National Association of Clean Water Agencies

Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.

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The Archaeological Conservancy

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…

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Greater Yellowstone Coalition

Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.

Environment

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Colorado Open Lands

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.

Environment

Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; 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.

04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 55 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/41

Grantees still filing

33/41

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$5,963,250Other$5,750,400Health$957,500Arts & Culture$417,250Food & Nutrition$247,000Animals$118,600Human Services$74,500

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.

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.

Thornburg FoundationNM19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Toan-O'Brien Foundation Barrett Toan & Paula O'Brien Ttees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

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The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

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