Our Charities
The O’Keefe Family Foundation is proud to have supported a number of charities across a variety of causes and geographies.
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The Against Malaria Foundation helps to protect people from malaria by funding anti-malaria nets. This Foundation works with distribution partners to ensure that the funded nets are used. Additionally, the AMF tracks and reports on net use and malaria case data so donors can fully comprehend the impact of their donation.
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GiveDirectly is the first and largest nonprofit that gives cash directly to people living in poverty. They believe that those living in poverty deserve the right to choose how to improve their lives, and giving direct cash allows them to do just this.
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The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by producing groundbreaking research to promote reforms in sentencing policy, addressing unjust racial disparities and practices, and to advocate for alternatives to incarceration.
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The mission of Alternatives for Girls is to to help homeless and high-risk girls and young women avoid violence, teen pregnancy and exploitation, and help them to explore and access the support, resources and opportunities necessary to be safe, to grow strong and to make positive choices in their lives. Founded in 1987, Alternatives For Girls (AFG) is a southwest Detroit-based nonprofit organization.
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New Incentives uses small cash incentives to boost childhood vaccination rates, preventing disease and saving lives. Their model is cost-effective and backed by rigorous evidence.
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Since 1987, Conservation International has worked to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity. Combining fieldwork with innovations in science, policy and finance, they’ve helped protect more than 2.3 million square miles of land and sea across more than 70 countries.
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Helen Keller overcame tremendous obstacles to her health and wellbeing – and helped millions of others to do the same. Guided by her remarkable legacy, Helen Keller Intl partners with communities that are striving to overcome longstanding cycles of poverty. By delivering the essential building blocks of good health, sound nutrition and clear vision, we help millions of people create lasting change in their own lives. Together with a global community of supporters, we are ensuring that every person has the opportunity – as Helen did – to reach their true potential.Item description
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Wild Animal Initiative currently focuses on helping scientists, grantors, and decision-makers investigate important and understudied questions about wild animal welfare. Our work catalyzes research and applied projects that will open the door to a clearer picture of wild animals’ needs and how to enhance their well-being. Ultimately, we envision a world in which people actively choose to help wild animals — and have the knowledge they need to do so responsibly.
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The mission of the Pure Heart Foundation is to embrace children of incarcerated parents (COIP) and empower them to break the cycle of generational involvement in the criminal justice system.
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Common Ground is a 24-hour crisis services agency dedicated to helping youths, adults, and families in crisis. Through their crisis line and in person, they provide professional and compassionate service to more than 80,000 people each year.
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Clean Air Task Force’s mission the technology and policy changes needed to achieve a zero-emissions, high-energy planet at an affordable cost.
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The Konnection is a Detroit-based mentoring program designed to encourage and empower youth to improve school performance and attendance. The Konnection partners with middle and high schools in underserved communities to provide resources including basic needs, enriching after-school programs, mentoring, field trips, career exploration, and travel opportunities. Our goal is to keep students excited about learning and engaged in school.
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Water 1st’s mission is to enable the world’s poorest people to implement and sustain community-managed projects integrating clean water supply, toilets, and hygiene education.
Water1st unites people to fight the global water and sanitation crisis. We believe this worldwide, silent catastrophe will be solved when people come together as a concerned community and take effective, simple actions.
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COTS creates opportunities for families to collaborate, thrive, and succeed in building strong and stable households, neighborhoods, and communities.
Through partnerships, we are able to assist families in reaching their housing, economic, health, education and career goals as they overcome homelessness and break the cycle of poverty for the next generation and beyond.
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WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. They build resilient food systems with locally led solutions.
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Spiro aims to help end tuberculosis by identifying, screening, and treating child household contacts of people living with TB.
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Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), founded in 1991 by concerned humanitarians in the USA, provides free medical care to thousands of injured and ill children yearly who lack local access to care within the local health care system. Over the years, they’ve sent over 2,000 affected children abroad for free medical care, sent thousands of international doctors and nurses to provide tens of thousands of children free medical care in local hospitals, and provided tens of thousands of children humanitarian aid and support they otherwise would not get.
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Established in 1987, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is a voluntary health organization that gives those affected by suicide a nationwide community empowered by research, education and advocacy to take action against this leading cause of death.
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Neway Works helps underprivileged teens step into their purpose, achieve academic success, and transform into self-efficient, educated, employable, and productive adults in society through our innovative after-school youth mentoring programs, leaving no child behind.
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The American Indian College Fund invests in Native students and tribal college education to transform lives and communities.
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Grant Record
Date |
Charity |
Approximate Amount |
2020 Q3 |
Against Malaria Foundation |
$9,000 |
2020 Q3 |
GiveDirectly |
$8,000 |
2020 Q3 |
The Sentencing Project |
$8,000 |
2021 Q4 |
Alternatives for Girls |
$7,760 |
2021 Q4 |
New Incentives |
$8,728 |
2021 Q4 |
Conservation International |
$7,511 |
2022 Q4 |
Helen Keller Foundation |
$7,400 |
2022 Q4 |
Wild Animal Initiative |
$5,000 |
2022 Q4 |
Pure Heart Foundation |
$5,949 |
2022 Q4 |
Against Malaria Foundation |
$2,000 |
2022 Q4 |
Common Ground |
$2,000 |
2022 Q4 |
Clean Air Task Force |
$2,000 |
2022 Q4 |
The Konnection |
$2,604 |
2022 Q4 |
Water 1st |
$2,000 |
2022 Q4 |
COTS |
$350 |
2022 Q4 |
World Central Kitchen |
$1,045 |
2023 Q4 |
Spiro |
$8,163 |
2023 Q4 |
Palestine Children's Relief Fund |
$6,702 |
2023 Q4 |
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention |
$6,134 |
2023 Q4 |
Neway Works |
$1,250 |
2023 Q4 |
American Indian College Fund |
$1,750 |
2023 Q4 |
Wild Animal Initiative |
$1,000 |
2023 Q4 |
The Konnection |
$250 |
2023 Q4 |
AdoptAClassroom.org |
$750 |