· Private foundation
Opa Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k6 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $99k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $13,500 |
| CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL | $12,500 |
| HOPECAM INC | $12,500 |
| HARVESTERS FOOD NETWORK | $10,588 |
| KIDS TLC | $10,000 |
| AFIA INSTITUTE FOR FEED EDUCATION AND RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS | $10,000 |
| CITY UNION MISSION | $10,000 |
| ROSE BROOKS | $10,000 |
| GIVING THE BASICS | $3,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CROHNS AND COLITIS FOUNDATION | $525 |
| LENEXA BAPTIST CHURCH | $500 |
| KVC KANSAS | $500 |
| THE RESCUE PROJECT | $180 |
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 (FY17–17, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
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.
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.
Our mission is to lead our community by serving people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with help, hope, and healing, in the spirit of excellence, under the call of christ.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
The international committee of the red cross (switzerland)(icrc) is an impartial, neutral, and independent organization whose exclusively humanitarian mission is to protect the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and of violence…
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Rosecrance provides help, hope and lasting recovery to children, youth, adults and families.
The mission of the corporation is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.
By leveraging innovative technology and research, we are shaping mental health policy and systems to create a world where everyone has access to the support they need anytime, anywhere.
Childfund's mission is to help deprived, excluded and vulnerable children have the capacity to become young adults, parents and leaders who bring lasting and positive change to their communities, and to promote societies whose individuals…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Emergency Relief International and the most unlike its peers is The Rescue Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HOPECAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ROSE BROOKS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds City Union Mission ↗
- Who funds KIDSTLC INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR FEED EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESCUE PROJECT ↗
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: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Opa Foundation 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.
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.