Iowa · Nonprofit
O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES
O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $874,515 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($742,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,806 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,806 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2023
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnlocalportfolio match
- Athene Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
99% of O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $115k → $121k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 67% · 2019 90% · 2020 92% · 2021 99% · 2022 86% · 2023 83% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Prairie Meadows Race Track and Casino Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchIA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders · funds 462 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- William C Knapp Charitable Fdnlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 61 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Athene Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchIA · funds 75 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central IowalocalIA · funds 164 organizations near you
- Iowa Realty Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Medical Associates Foundation of Dubuqueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raccoon Valley Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bravo Greater Des Moines InclocalIA · funds 125 organizations near you
- Home State Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Story Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Iowa Savings Bank Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John R and Zelda Z Grubb Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES?
- O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES (Iowa) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $874,515 to it, the largest being GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES ($742,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $874,515 in grants to O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES?
- GOLF CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF GREATER DES MOINES is the largest funder on record, with $742,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like O DONNELL & FRIENDS CHARITIES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2023 (financials across 2019–2023), and the filings of 4funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing