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Opa Foundation at a glance

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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.

$105k
Granted FY2017
15
Grants FY2017
5
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2017 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k6 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $99k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN RED CROSS$13,500
CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$12,500
HOPECAM INC$12,500
HARVESTERS FOOD NETWORK$10,588
CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS$10,000
ROSE BROOKS$10,000
CITY UNION MISSION$10,000
AFIA INSTITUTE FOR FEED EDUCATION AND RESEARCH$10,000
KIDS TLC$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
02The need
02

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 (FY17–17, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $14k → 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 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
Ability Kc

Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.

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2
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
3
Kansas City Hospice Inc

To bring expert care, peace of mind, comfort, guidance and hope to people who are affected by serious illness or by grief.

Human Services
4
City Rescue Mission Inc

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.

Human Services
5
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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…

Animals
6
International Committee of the Red Cross

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…

International
7
Kansas City Care Clinic

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.

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8
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
9
Rosecrance Inc

Rosecrance provides help, hope and lasting recovery to children, youth, adults and families.

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10
Kids in Distress Inc

The mission of the corporation is to prevent child abuse, preserve the family, and treat children who have been abused and neglected.

Human Services
11
Crisis Text Line Inc

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.

Health
12
Childfund International Usa

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…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Emergency Relief International; 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.
03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPECAM INC: $12,500 · OtherHOPECAM INCHARVESTERS FOOD NETWORK: $10,588 · OtherHARVESTERS FOOD NETWORKROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherROSE BROOKS CENTER INCKIDSTLC INC: $10,000 · OtherKIDSTLC INCCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST KANSAS: $10,000 · OtherCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF NORTHEAST KANSASGIVING THE BASICS INC: $3,200 · OtherGIVING THE BASICS INC+3 more: $2,000 · OtherAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,500 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…CHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $12,500 · InternationalCHILDREN'S EM…INSTITUTE FOR FEED EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $10,000 · AnimalsINSTITUTE …+1 more: $180 · AnimalsCity Union Mission: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCity Union…CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $525 · Health
Other$58,288Human Services$13,500International$12,500Animals$10,180Housing & Shelter$10,000Health$525

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPECAM INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S EMERGENCY RELIEF INTERNATIONAL: $12,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetROSE BROOKS CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCity Union Mission: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FEED EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetKIDSTLC INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVING THE BASICS INC: $3,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $525 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Greater Kansas City C…Natl Christian Charit…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Greater Kansas City Community FoundationMO13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Opa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Opa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.

    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 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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