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Opportunity Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $125k
- $10k–50k134 grants · $2.0M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| DREAMS OF HOPE | $137,500 |
| NEW SUN RISING | $57,500 |
| BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION | $42,500 |
| COMMUNITY THEATER PROJECT CORPORATIONTHE KELLY STRAYHORN THEATER | $41,000 |
| SISTERS PGH | $35,000 |
| ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER | $35,000 |
| CASA SAN JOSE | $35,000 |
| SHIFTWORKS | $30,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $30,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC PITTSBURGH | $25,000 |
| ACLU FOUNDATION PA | $25,000 |
| WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA FUND FOR CHOICE | $20,000 |
| KENTE ARTS ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| QUANTUM THEATRE | $20,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
164 repeat relationships — 103 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 50 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $685k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- NSNEW SUN RISING4× · 2021–2024 · $223k · revenue +18%
- ALABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER4× · 2021–2024 · $160k · revenue +16%
- CGCatapult Greater Pittsburgh4× · 2021–2024 · $115k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- SFSOCIETY FOR CULTURAL EXCHANGE DBA LAND ART GENERATORone grant, 2021 · $29k
- RDRIVERBENDS DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATEDone grant, 2021 · $21k
- KKIDSVOICEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +25%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The mission of pittsburgh public theater is to provide artistically diverse theatrical experiences of the highest quality. pittsburgh public theater also strives to serve, challenge, stimulate, and (continued on schedule o)
To create a vibrant, responsible, and sustainable film and digital media sector in southwestern pennsylvania.
To create and distribute trusted content, build connections and strengthen our community through public media.
PCRG is a coalition of community leaders working for economic justice, equitable investment practices and sufficient financial resources to revitalize communities throughout Allegheny County, PA
Pittsburgh festival opera presents innovative opera for imaginative audiences. pittsburgh festival opera is pittsburgh's modern music drama company and, as such, focuses on creating new works, on reinterpreting older works in new ways, on…
Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.
Allentown Public Theatre is dedicated to empowering our diverse communities through the performing arts. We expand opportunities for cultural participation and education in theatre, and create works that address contemporary issues.
The mission of pittsburgh arts & lectures is to connect celebrated authors with the community, elevate civic discourse, and inspire creativity and a passion for the literary arts. our commitment to knowledge, learning, integrity, and…
We connect the people and places of philadelphia through art and partnership. the organization is a free-standing platform that endeavors to show forward-thinking, high-quality contemporary visual and performance art in the city. the…
To present independent films from around the world to deepen audiences' understanding of culture, tolerance, and common humanity.
Presenting diverse, quality performing & visual art; managing arts facilities; advancing arts education; and creating & developing pittsburgh's cultural district as a destination for entertainment, business, and urban living, thus…
To create a culture of inclusion and highlight diversity successes and initiatives in the pittsburgh legal community; and to educate and assist pittsburgh area legal employers in increasing the hiring, retention, and inclusion of legal…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Voices Pittsburgh Inc and the most unlike its peers is True T Pittsburgh. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 19. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
254 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. 254 of the 345 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW SUN RISING ↗
- Who funds DREAMS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Catapult Greater Pittsburgh ↗
- Who funds CASA SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SISTERS PGH CORP ↗
- Who funds GREATER PITTSBURGH ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choic ↗
- Who funds QUANTUM THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY OF ASYLUM ↗
- Who funds Pittsburghers for Public Transit ↗
- Who funds HILL DISTRICT CONSENSUS GROUP ↗
- Who funds UJAMAA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds PITTSBURGH GLASS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES FOUNDATION OF PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds AFRO AMERICAN MUSIC INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAZLETT CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds KENTE ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds HILL DANCE ACADEMY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds THE SOCIETY FOR ART IN CRAFTS ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD-GARFIELD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALLIES FOR HEALTH WELLBEING ↗
- Who funds POISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds United States Artists Inc ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER CRAFTSMEN'S GUILD ↗
- Who funds 1HOOD MEDIA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds EDENS FARM ↗
- Who funds DAISY WILSON ARTIST COMMUNITY INC DBA AUGUST WILSON HOUSE ↗
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.
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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 Opportunity 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.
- The Massachusetts Review Inc — 11% of income from government
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.
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