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Opencollective Foundation

The foundation's mission is to promote 1) charitable projects aimed at increasing access to educational resources and training 2) charitable projects aimed at creating a positive social impact and 3) charitable projects aimed at developing tools to improve civic participation.

$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$110k
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.

Science & Tech$806kCrime & Legal$424kHealth$222kEnvironment$198kFood & Nutrition$110kCivil Rights$64kPublic Safety & Disaster$54kEducation$41k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $428,778, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,700,363 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,271,585 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.
$110,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$560k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$110,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$110,000
RICE UNIVERSITY$110,000
LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY$98,778
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ARTICLE 19 INC: $43k → 10%HARVARD UNIVERSITY: $72k → 8%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $110k → 16%THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $110k → 8%LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY: $99k → 10%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $41k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $55k → 17%RICE UNIVERSITY: $110k → 16%CVKEY PROJECT INC: $54k → 5%CODE FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: $128k → 12%JUSTICE RESKILL FOUNDATION: $424k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $39k → 9%ARTICLE 19 INC: $21k → 10%STANFORD UNIVERSITY: $110k → 8%LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY: $99k → 10%SIMPLY SECURE: $100k → 17%RICE UNIVERSITY: $110k → 16%CODE FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY: $9k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $95k → 9%SIMPLY SECURE: $50k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
DE
KS
TX
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$902k · 6 repeat orgs$669k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$902k
$559k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+23%

Still filing today

67%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
EducationSocial ScienceScience & TechInternationalOther
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

  • WM
    William Marsh Rice University
    2× · 2023–2024 · $220k · revenue +45%
  • SD
    SUPERBLOOM DESIGN
    2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +41%
  • CF
    CODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $137k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • JR
    JUSTICE RESKILL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $424k
  • CP
    CVKEY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $54k · 100% of their budget
  • Cornell University
    one grant, 2021 · $41k · revenue +23%
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
The Central European University

Ceu is committed to promoting the values of open society and self-reflective critical thinking. it aims at excellence in the mastery of established knowledge, courage to pursue the creation of new knowledge in the humanities, the social…

International
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
7
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
8
Chancellor Masters & Scholars of the University of Oxford

The principal objects of the University are the advancement of learning by teaching and research, and its dissemination by every means. We work as one Oxford bringing together our staff, students and alumni, our colleges, faculties,…

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9
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
10
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is Cvkey Project Inc. 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

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 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUSTICE RESKILL FOUNDATION: $423,663 · OtherJUSTICE RESKILL FOUNDATIONLBNL: $197,556 · OtherLBNLUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $133,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $110,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYCVKEY PROJECT INC: $53,924 · OtherCVKEY PROJECT INCPENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY: $40,049 · OtherWilliam Marsh Rice University: $220,000 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice UniversityTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $220,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $71,500 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard Co…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $55,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY…Cornell University: $40,943 · EducationCornell UniversitySUPERBLOOM DESIGN: $149,988 · Social ScienceCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC: $137,393 · Science & TechARTICLE 19 INC: $63,749 · International
Other$958,692Education$607,443Social Science$149,988Science & Tech$137,393International$63,749

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $220,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $220,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUPERBLOOM DESIGN: $149,988 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC: $137,393 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $71,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTICLE 19 INC: $63,749 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCVKEY PROJECT INC: $53,924 over 1y, 100% of budgetCornell University: $40,943 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Opencollective Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Opencollective Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 13% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 10% of income from government
  • Code for Science & Society Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Opencollective Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Opencollective Foundation 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 14 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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