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Optivest Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$2.5MEducation$2.1MReligion$1.3MHuman Services$600kCivil Rights$396kHealth$244kYouth Development$134kPhilanthropy$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
$4,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$233k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Harbor Point Church$13,000
NORTHRISE UNIVERSITY INITIATIVE$12,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
UNITED SERVANTS ABROAD$4,500
3 CROSSES CHURCH$2,500
Cash Distributions$2,500
EMERALD COVE CAMP STAR ROCK MINISTR$1,925
CAPISTRANO VALLEY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$570
HomeWord$500
02The need
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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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $619k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Project Linus: $261 → 8%Hitching Post Ministries: $25k → 10%Hitching Post Ministries: $20k → 10%Hitching Post Ministries: $15k → 10%Hitching Post Ministries: $2k → 10%Wells of Life: $14k → 10%Wells of Life: $10k → 10%Mary's Shelter: $4k → 10%Mary's Shelter: $2k → 10%Mary's Shelter: $2k → 10%Mary's Shelter: $2k → 10%Mary's Shelter: $1k → 10%Acres of Love: $74k → 10%Acres of Love: $68k → 10%Acres of Love: $68k → 10%Acres of Love: $68k → 10%Acres of Love: $68k → 10%Acres of Love: $68k → 10%Acres of Love: $68k → 10%Rad Dad - TBI Family Fund: $23k → 10%Riverbank Organization: $20k → 10%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

IL
WI
MI
NY
OR
SD
PA
CA
UT
CO
MO
AZ
KS
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 11% of Optivest Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 56%.

Optivest Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 31% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.2M · 44 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
46

Total granted

$7.2M
$292k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+2%

Still filing today

50%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalReligionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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

  • HOPE INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $458k · revenue +140%
  • FU
    FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED
    7× · 2017–2023 · $356k · revenue +280%
  • JR
    JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL
    6× · 2018–2023 · $338k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CB
    CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    Care for Children
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • RD
    RAD DAD - TBI FAMILY FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $23k
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
Christian Mission for the United Nations Community

Christian Mission for the United Nations Community is a ministry aimed at leading the head of every nation and other top leaders to faith in Jesus Christ and helping them to walk in dependence upon God as they discharge the…

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2
New Road Missions

We are compelled by god's word to provide security, education and the hope of jesus to children in south africa so they can thrive personally and impact their future families, communities and the kingdom of god.

Religion
3
Harvesters International Ministries

Partnering with Indigenous Leaders to Spread the Gospel, Serve Others, and Build Community

Religion
4
Child Hope International

We minister to orphans and widows in their distress by transitioning children from orphanages into loving families. We do this through Christ- centered care, training and social work.

Arts & Culture
5
Fsi-Freedom Seekers International

Freedom seekers international is a christian organization that exists to rescue the most severely persecuted for their religious faith in hostile and restrictive countries. through collaborative partnerships we deliver those who are…

Human Services
6
Christian Harvest International Min

To provide strategic teaching about prayer, prophecy, and intercession in the US and abroad. Books, manuals, and audio teachings are also used to equip Christians in strategic level spiritual prayer and warfare.

Religion
7
Heart Bridge International

Heart Bridge International exists to equip and empower Christians around the world to fulfill the Great Commission. The organization provides free ministry training, discipleship resources, and practical coaching to under-resourced…

Religion
8
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
9
Kidz At Heart International

KidZ at Heart International is a global Christian community that trains, partners with, and mobilizes networks of leaders to help children fall deeply in love with Jesus. We train and partner with churches and families to successfully…

Religion
10
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
11
Sole Ministries

None

Religion
12
What Matters Ministries and Missions

The organizations exempt purpose is to rescue orphans and widows, feed the poor, build the local church through ministry, crusades and outreaches and to win souls around the world.

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Basha. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 98 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Christian Foundation: $1,474,577 · OtherNational Christian FoundationNorthrise University: $739,610 · OtherNorthrise UniversityFOREST HOME FOUNDATION: $450,000 · OtherFOREST HOME FOUNDATIONOPERATION MOBILIZATION: $395,900 · OtherOPERATION MOBILIZATIONSedera Voahary Jesus Family Kingdom: $176,489 · OtherPB J: $167,860 · Other+59 more: $981,354 · Other+59 moreHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $457,500 · InternationalHOPE INTERNATIONALFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $355,874 · InternationalFLORESTA USA INCORPORAT…Edify: $315,000 · InternationalEdifyCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: $232,750 · InternationalCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUNDWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 · International+7 more: $128,433 · International+7 moreACRES OF LOVE: $479,375 · Human ServicesACRES OF L…Hitching Post Ministries: $62,000 · Human ServicesHitching P…WELLS OF LIFE INC: $23,500 · Human ServicesRAD DAD - TBI FAMILY FUND: $23,200 · Human Services+6 more: $75,520 · Human Services+6 moreJUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL: $337,852 · EducationCONGO INITIATIVE USA INC: $212,600 · EducationCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · Education+3 more: $16,070 · EducationCARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC: $128,750 · Youth DevelopmentHOMEWORD: $82,750 · Youth DevelopmentFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $62,500 · PhilanthropyLogos Healing Institute: $34,125 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 · Health
Other$4,385,790International$1,549,557Human Services$663,595Education$591,522Youth Development$211,500Philanthropy$62,500Health$39,125

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 budgetACRES OF LOVE: $479,375 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL: $457,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFLORESTA USA INCORPORATED: $355,874 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetJUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL: $337,852 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetEdify: $315,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND: $232,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONGO INITIATIVE USA INC: $212,600 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetCARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC: $128,750 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetHOMEWORD: $82,750 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetFAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES: $62,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHitching Post Ministries: $62,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetWATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC: $50,633 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetLogos Healing Institute: $34,125 over 3y, 10% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMANY HOPES INC: $32,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLS OF LIFE INC: $23,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRAD DAD - TBI FAMILY FUND: $23,200 over 1y, 10% of budgetMILELE INTERNATIONAL: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE RIVERBANK ORGANIZATION: $20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWHOLIVES INC: $19,800 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSU REFUGIO MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCAMINO HEALTH CENTER: $11,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARY'S SHELTER: $10,259 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHO'OLA NA PUA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFaithquest Missions: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetKids Alive International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CUP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJESUS SAID GO: $5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetDean-o and the Dynamos Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetUNITED SERVANTS ABROAD INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIDDEN WITH CHRIST MINISTRIES DBA TREASURES OF AFRICA KIDZ: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUNIPERO SERRA CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHaven Ministries: $1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast-West Ministries International: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL MISSION: $800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRelationship 180: $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCapistrano Valley Christian Schools Inc: $570 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S HELPING HANDS: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LINUS: $261 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 ACRES OF LOVE ↗
  • Who funds HOPE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds FLORESTA USA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE RISING INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Edify ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND ↗
  • Who funds CONGO INITIATIVE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CARE FOR CHILDREN CARE FOR CHILDREN - USA INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEWORD ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Hitching Post Ministries ↗
  • Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds EXTREME RESPONSE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Logos Healing Institute ↗
  • Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
  • Who funds MANY HOPES INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA BAPTIST UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WELLS OF LIFE INC ↗
  • Who funds RAD DAD - TBI FAMILY FUND ↗
  • Who funds MILELE INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THE RIVERBANK ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds WHOLIVES INC ↗

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.

Orange County Communi…Higher Rock FoundationGiving UniversityNatl Christian Charit…Servant FoundationKingdom AssignmentThe Bowie Family Foun…The Fuller FoundationFarmers & Merchants B…Edwards Lifesciences …American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Orange County Community FoundationCA24.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Higher Rock Foundation · Giving University · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · Kingdom Assignment · The Bowie Family Foundation · The Fuller Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Optivest Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Optivest Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Optivest Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Optivest 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 98 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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