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Growth Opportunity Partners Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Growth Opportunity Partners Inc

To provide advisory services, financial solutions, and advocacy, to cultivate more resilient persons and communities prevsiously under-resourced and under-valued, utilimately to imporve quality of life, outputs, and outcomes with a particular focus on disadvantaged communities and persons.

$340k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$562kCommunity Improvement$220kHealth$140kFood & Nutrition$125kArts & Culture$85kEducation$55kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $110,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $339,650 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $229,650 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$50,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CARTECOR MANAGEMENT$50,000
PHENOMENAL FOODS CO LLC$50,000
FURAHI - A TASTE OF HOME$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%MOTHERS IN ARMS: $28k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$565k · 7 repeat orgs$667k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
25

Total granted

$565k
$667k

Still filing today

0%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentReligionEnvironmentHealthOther
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

  • SA
    SPORTS AND SPINE PHYSICAL THERAPY INC
    3× · 2021–2023 · $195k
  • CM
    CARTECOR MANAGEMENT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k
  • PF
    PHENOMENAL FOODS CO LLC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $90k

Funded once

  • QM
    QUEZ MEDIA MARKETING
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • TC
    THE CONSCIOUS CONNECT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • IN OUR BACKYARDS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $32k · revenue -31%
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.

1
Central Ohio Workers Center Inc

The Central Ohio Worker Center is a non-profit organization that educates, empowers, and advocates for and with low-wage and immigrant workers in Central Ohio.

Civil Rights
2
Ohio Business Leadership Network
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3
Greater Warren Youngstown Urban League

To enable African Americans and other underserved urban residents to secure economic self-reliance parity power and civil rights.

Human Services
4
Urban League of Greater Cleveland

The mission of Urban League of Greater Cleveland, Inc., (the League) is a community-based organization focused on eliminating the racial, economic, and societal barriers that prevent Black Americans and other underrepresented/underserved…

—
5
Ohio Alliance of Ymca's

We are a grassroots driven and governed organization that advocates and educates on behalf of the YMCAs and its mission, upholding the four core YMCA values of caring, honestly, respect, and responsibility. The Alliance also fosters…

Community Improvement
6
Black Appalachian Coalition

Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC), a multi-state organization working across Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley and Basin, is centered on story-based approaches that amplify Black voices, fights for environmental justice and strengthens…

Civil Rights
7
Cleveland Social Venture Partners

Collaborate Cleveland invests in local changemakers serving women and advancing gender justice in Cleveland while advocating for the long-term change of policies and practices that have historically disadvantaged women.

Philanthropy
8
The Black Organizing Project Inc

The Black Organizing Project is a Black, member-led community organization working for racial, social, and economic justice through grassroots organizing and community building across the Bay Area.

Human Services
9
Ohio Womens Alliance

The Ohio Womens Alliance is a statewide membership of grassroots leaders, organizers, community builders and activists creating a better Ohio for all through a reproductive justice lens.

Community Improvement
10
Columbus Organizing Project

Provide ongoing training in basic community organizing skills such as 1-1s researching community problems negotiating solutions and building networks of relationships.

Community Improvement
11
West Ohio Community Action Partnership

Organized for the purpose of creating, developing and effecting programs and projects designed to enhance the economic development of Allen, Auglaize, and Mercer Counties and its citizens, particularly to those areas of the community and…

Community Improvement
12
Community Builders Network of Metro St Louis

The Community Builders Network of Metro St. Louis (CBN) is a coalition of community building organizations, including both place-based nonprofits and supporting partners. Our mission is to gather community leaders of all backgrounds to…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Development for All People; the most unlike its peers is Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal. 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

16 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. 16 of the 32 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPORTS AND SPINE PHYSICAL THERAPY INC: $195,000 · OtherSPORTS AND SPINE PHYSICAL THERAPY INCCARTECOR MANAGEMENT: $120,000 · OtherCARTECOR MANAGEMENTPHENOMENAL FOODS CO LLC: $90,000 · OtherPHENOMENAL FOODS CO LLCQUEZ MEDIA MARKETING: $50,000 · OtherQUEZ MEDIA MARKETINGAIRCUTS & DAY SPA: $45,020 · OtherDORNEE' SHEA BODY SOUFFLE LLC: $45,000 · OtherTHE CONSCIOUS CONNECT INC: $40,000 · OtherFURAHI-A TASTE OF HOME: $35,000 · OtherNEWGEN INTERACTIVE LLC: $35,000 · OtherALL PHASE FOUNDATION: $30,000 · OtherAFRICAHOUSE INT: $30,000 · OtherJOURNEY ON YONDER: $29,500 · Other+5 more: $127,272 · Other+5 moreTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 · Community ImprovementTRUMBULL …GREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC: $27,450 · Community ImprovementGREATER D…VILLAGE OF HEALING: $25,000 · Community ImprovementVILLAGE O…Cleveland Owns: $18,600 · Community ImprovementCleveland…IN OUR BACKYARDS INC: $31,500 · EducationBLACK ACHIEVERS INC: $27,000 · EducationCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $10,000 · EducationMY PROJECT USA: $29,000 · Youth DevelopmentOHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: $29,400 · ReligionCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $26,550 · ReligionNORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC: $30,000 · HealthMothers in Arms: $27,850 · Human ServicesBlack Environmental Leaders Association: $17,450 · Environment
Other$871,792Community Improvement$101,050Education$68,500Youth Development$59,000Religion$55,950Health$30,000Human Services$27,850Environment$17,450

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetIN OUR BACKYARDS INC: $31,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRUMBULL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHEAST OHIO BLACK HEALTH COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetALEPH Alliance for Jewish Renewal: $29,400 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMY PROJECT USA: $29,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMothers in Arms: $27,850 over 1y, 14% of budgetGREATER DAYTON UNION COOPERATIVE INITIATIVE INC: $27,450 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYWCA Dayton: $27,272 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLACK ACHIEVERS INC: $27,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL PEOPLE: $26,550 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVILLAGE OF HEALING: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetOHIO URBAN RENAISSANCE: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCleveland Owns: $18,600 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetBlack Environmental Leaders Association: $17,450 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCLEVELAND LEADERSHIP CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAVALIERS YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

The George Gund Found…The Cleveland Foundat…United States Energy …Saint Lukes Foundatio…Columbus FoundationDominion Energy Chari…Charities Aid Foundat…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
The George Gund FoundationOH19.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Gund Foundation · The Cleveland Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · Saint Lukes Foundation of Cleveland Ohio · Columbus Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Growth Opportunity Partners Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Growth Opportunity Partners Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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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    How do I get to Growth Opportunity Partners Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Growth Opportunity Partners Inc 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.

    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 32 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 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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