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Opus Community Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OASIS CENTER INTERNATIONAL | $11,948 |
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 (FY17–20, $191k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +67% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 86 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST4× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +149%
- CCRAFT32× · 2018–2020 · $55k · revenue +224%
- CVCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY3× · 2018–2020 · $38k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- HSHIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +296%
- SFSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +8%
- AFAMERICAN FAMILY HOUSINGgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +163%
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
We partner with children and adults with disabilities and their families so they may live more meaningful, healthy, and independent lives in their homes and communities.
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.
Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grow My Way. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
211 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. 211 of the 311 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds CRAFT3 ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FAMILY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS ↗
- Who funds FOOD LIFELINE ↗
- Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA FINANCIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS SOCIAL ENTERPRISES ↗
- Who funds HOUSING HOPE ↗
- Who funds ORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OASIS COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds GOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BLINDNESS ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Orange County Rescue Mission Inc ↗
- Who funds ACCESSITY ↗
- Who funds Mary Erickson Community Housing A Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds BANCHERO DISABILITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Medina Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Employees Community Fund of the Boeing Company · Banc of California Charitable Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation
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 Opus Community 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.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- With Love Oregon Inc — 16% of income from government
- Self Enhancement Inc — 14% of income from government
- Portland Opera Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Financial Beginnings — 1% of income from government
- CRAFT3 — 1% 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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