How much does Opportunity Council give?

Opportunity Council reported 9 itemized grants totaling $469,857, out of $22,347,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Opportunity Council fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (60%), Environment (30%), Human Services (5%).

Who are Opportunity Council's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sustainable Connections ($1.4M), Olympic Community Action Programs ($1.1M), Community Action of Skagit County ($1.0M).

Does Opportunity Council fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Opportunity Council?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, North Sound Accountable Community of Health, Whatcom Community Foundation.

Where is Opportunity Council based?

Opportunity Council is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

Opportunity Council

Opportunity Council (The Council) helps address immediate and crisis-related basic needs such as food, emergency shelter, and eviction prevention. The Council also helps develop self-sufficiency and resiliency within our community by delivering early childhood education, home weatherization, and energy conservation education.

$22M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2024: 14
Organizations funded FY2023: 7%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $470k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $14,972
Largest grant, FY2024: $158,242
Organizations funded a year: 6 to 14; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $40M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Opportunity Council funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	9	$470k	0%
FY2023	14	$1.0M	7%
FY2022	13	$733k	46%
FY2021	6	$640k	0%
FY2020	7	$592k	29%
FY2019	6	$497k	0%
FY2018	7	$481k	14%
FY2017	6	$410k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$2.9MEnvironment$1.4MHuman Services$244kHealth$146kCommunity Improvement$50kArts & Culture$20kEducation$9k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Connections	$1,367,209	8	16%
Olympic Community Action Programs	$1,093,852	8	2%
Community Action of Skagit County	$1,016,165	8	1%
Northwest Youth Services	$215,929	4	2%
Corporation for National and Community Service	$185,864	8	n/a
Institute for Washingtons Future	$150,000	2	4%
Unity Care Northwest	$121,884	8	0%
Lummi Nation	$115,000	2	n/a
Nooksack Indian Tribe	$100,000	2	n/a
22 North Development LLC	$100,000	2	n/a

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All grantees of Opportunity Council by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Sustainable Connections	$1,367,209	8	16%
Olympic Community Action Programs	$1,093,852	8	2%
Community Action of Skagit County	$1,016,165	8	1%
Northwest Youth Services	$215,929	4	2%
Corporation for National and Community Service	$185,864	8	n/a
Institute for Washingtons Future	$150,000	2	4%
Unity Care Northwest	$121,884	8	0%
Lummi Nation	$115,000	2	n/a
Nooksack Indian Tribe	$100,000	2	n/a
22 North Development LLC	$100,000	2	n/a
Serenity House of Clallam County	$97,423	2	3%
Orcas Community Resource Center	$76,921	4	2%
Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Center	$67,924	3	2%
Lopez Island Family Resource Center	$61,394	3	1%
Hearing Speech and Deafness Center Dba Hearing Speech and Deaf Center	$61,000	3	1%
Foundation for Western Washington University and Alumni	$9,000	1	0%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Opportunity Council supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA23.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · North Sound Accountable Community of Health · Whatcom Community Foundation · Food Lifeline · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · PeaceHealth · First Fed Foundation · Medina Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Inatai Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.

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About Opportunity Council

How much does Opportunity Council give?: Opportunity Council reported 9 itemized grants totaling $469,857, out of $22,347,561 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Opportunity Council fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (60%), Environment (30%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Opportunity Council's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Sustainable Connections ($1.4M), Olympic Community Action Programs ($1.1M), Community Action of Skagit County ($1.0M).
Does Opportunity Council fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Opportunity Council?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, North Sound Accountable Community of Health, Whatcom Community Foundation.
Where is Opportunity Council based?: Opportunity Council is based in WA.