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Opportunity Council

Opportunity Council (The Council) helps address immediate and crisis-related basic needs such as food, emergency shelter, and eviction prevention.

$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $469,857, the rows itemized in this filing. The $22,347,561 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $21,877,704 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

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $382k
$14,972
Median grant
2
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Community Action of Skagit County$158,242
Sustainable Connections$147,902
Olympic Community Action Programs$75,854
Corporation for National and Community Services$29,624
Unity Care Northwest$14,972
Lopez Island Family Resource Center$14,223
Orcas Community Resource Center$12,157
Hearing Speech and Deafness Center$9,000
Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Center$7,883
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Orcas Community Resource Center: $34k → 10%Olympic Community Action Programs: $273k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $188k → 11%Orcas Family Resource Center: $19k → 10%Olympic Community Action Programs: $214k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $175k → 11%Orcas Community Resource Center: $12k → 10%Olympic Community Action Programs: $203k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $158k → 11%Olympic Community Action Programs: $33k → 12%Orcas Community Resource Center: $12k → 10%Olympic Community Action Programs: $155k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $117k → 11%Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Center: $37k → 10%Olympic Community Action Programs: $111k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $104k → 11%Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Center: $23k → 10%Olympic Community Action Programs: $76k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $104k → 11%Joyce L Sobel Family Resource Center: $8k → 10%Olympic Community Action Programs: $29k → 11%Community Action of Skagit County: $90k → 11%Lopez Island Family Resource Center: $30k → 10%Community Action of Skagit County: $80k → 11%Lopez Island Family Resource Center: $17k → 10%Northwest Youth Services: $112k → 12%Lopez Island Family Resource Center: $14k → 10%Northwest Youth Services: $67k → 12%Northwest Youth Services: $24k → 12%Northwest Youth Services: $13k → 12%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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 15 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -51% for those funded once.

15 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
1

Total granted

$4.8M
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
-51%

Still filing today

73%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • SC
    SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +157%
  • OC
    OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +74%
  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI
    one grant, 2023 · $9k · revenue -51%
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
Whatcom Dispute Resolution Center

Provide and promote constructive and collaborative approaches to conflict resolution through mediation, training, facilitation, supervised visits and community education.

Unclassified
2
United Way of Snohomish County

United way of snohomish county improves lives for families in snohomish county by bringing people, resources, and strategy together.

Philanthropy
3
Northwest Counseling Service Inc

Housing Counseling Services

Housing & Shelter
4
Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission

Washington Indian Civil Rights Commission is led by and for Indigenous people, and envisions a just society in which we are treated with honor, fairness and respect. Our mission is to uphold our individual civil rights through education…

Human Services
5
Olympic Peninsula Community Clinic

Improving the quality of life for the people in the Olympic Peninsula Community by providing increased access to health and wellness services for the underserved

Health
6
Housing Connector

Housing connector partners with property owners and managers to lower barriers to housing and increase our region's affordable housing capacity.

Housing & Shelter
7
Seattle Jobs Initiative

Seattle jobs initiative (sji) creates opportunities for people to support themselves and their families through living-wage careers.

Employment
8
North Olympic Healthcare Network

To provide patient-centered, quality-driven, whole-person healthcare services, accessible to everyone in our community.

Health
9
Washington Vocational Services

To provide job development, job seeking skills and job placement for persons with disabilities. we are dedicated to providing outstanding quality services that result in successful community involvement and employment for persons with…

Employment
10
Snoqualmie Valley Food Bank

Our mission is to provide food and key resources to help our neighbors and community thrive. we lead the effort to feed, educated and advocate ending hunger in the snoqualmie valley and beyond.

Food & Nutrition
11
Workforce Development Council Snohomish County

Workforce snohomish invests government and private funding to continuously increase the global competitiveness and prosperity of our businesses and workforce, to fill current and emerging jobs, and to provide full employment. our…

Education
12
Great Peninsula Conservancy

Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Olympic Community Action Programs; the most unlike its peers is Serenity House of Clallam County. 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS: $1,093,852 · Human ServicesOLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMSCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $1,016,165 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTYNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $215,929 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES+3 more: $206,239 · Human Services+3 moreSUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS: $1,367,209 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONSCORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE: $185,864 · OtherCORPORATION FOR…INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $150,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR W…LUMMI NATION: $115,000 · OtherLUMMI NATIONNOOKSACK INDIAN TRIBE: $100,000 · OtherNOOKSACK INDIAN…22 North Development LLC: $100,000 · Other22 North Develo…UNITY CARE NORTHWEST: $121,884 · HealthHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $61,000 · HealthSERENITY HOUSE OF CLALLAM COUNTY: $97,423 · Housing & ShelterFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $9,000 · Education
Human Services$2,532,185Environment$1,367,209Other$650,864Health$182,884Housing & Shelter$97,423Education$9,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS: $1,367,209 over 8y, 16% of budgetOLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS: $1,093,852 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY: $1,016,165 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetNORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES: $215,929 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE: $150,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetUNITY CARE NORTHWEST: $121,884 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSERENITY HOUSE OF CLALLAM COUNTY: $97,423 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $76,921 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetJOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $67,924 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetLOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $61,394 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER: $61,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI: $9,000 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.

  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds OLYMPIC COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF SKAGIT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWEST YOUTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR WASHINGTONS FUTURE ↗
  • Who funds UNITY CARE NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds SERENITY HOUSE OF CLALLAM COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds ORCAS COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOYCE L SOBEL FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds LOPEZ ISLAND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HEARING SPEECH AND DEAFNESS CENTER DBA HEARING SPEECH AND DEAF CENTER ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY AND ALUMNI ↗

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 FoundationNorth Sound Accountab…Whatcom Community Fou…Food LifelineThe Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…PeaceHealthFirst Fed FoundationMedina FoundationPhilanthropy NorthwestInatai FoundationDonor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 16 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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