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Opus Community Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Youth Development$298kEducation$278kHousing & Shelter$261kCommunity Improvement$195kHuman Services$178kPhilanthropy$131kHealth$128kArts & Culture$84kOther$0
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$11,948
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OASIS CENTER INTERNATIONAL$11,948
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 (FY17–20, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ELDERHELP OF SAN DIEGO: $5k → 11%BUZZY'S BEES: $250 → 8%STOLENYOUTH: $8k → 9%WITH LOVE OREGON INC: $450 → 8%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WA: $5k → 12%HOPE THROUGH HOUSING FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WA: $5k → 12%WORKING SOLUTIONS: $5k → 10%STORE TO DOOR: $5k → 12%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS WA: $5k → 12%WORKING SOLUTIONS: $3k → 8%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OR: $5k → 12%TANNER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5k → 11%LIFEWIRE: $600 → 9%SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE: $25k → 11%FINANCIAL BEGINNINGS OR: $5k → 12%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%CASA DE AMPARO: $5k → 11%THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $5k → 14%NORTHWEST ACCESS FUND: $5k → 9%NORTHWEST ACCESS FUND: $5k → 9%EASTSIDE FRIENDS OF SENIORS: $5k → 9%WISEPLACE: $5k → 10%PIONEER HUMAN SERVICES: $3k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $250 → 9%DOWN SYNDROME COMMUNITY OF PUGET SOUND: $100 → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $250 → 9%COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT: $5k → 10%ABILITYFIRST: $10k → 14%ISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $5k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER SEATTLE: $200 → 9%CSR CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 10%TRINITY YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 14%TRINITY YOUTH SERVICES: $5k → 14%SHOES THAT FIT: $451 → 14%SOUTH BAY CHILDREN'S HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 14%KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10k → 10%FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $500 → 10%HART COMMUNITY HOMES: $5k → 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

WA
ID
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
LA
GA
TX
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 87 repeat orgs$703k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

87 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 86 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
219

Total granted

$1.1M
$703k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+31%

Still filing today

69%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalArts & CultureOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST
    4× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +149%
  • C
    CRAFT3
    2× · 2018–2020 · $55k · revenue +224%
  • CV
    CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY
    3× · 2018–2020 · $38k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • HS
    HIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +296%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FAMILY HOUSINGgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +163%
  • SF
    SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +8%
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
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
2
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
3
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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4
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
5
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
6
Residential Opportunities Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Stem Advantage

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…

Youth Development
8
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
9
Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc

Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.

International
10
California Housing Partner Corporation

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.

Unclassified
11
Valle Del Sol Inc

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.

Health
12
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

211 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. 211 of the 311 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
203/211
Grantees still filing
144/211
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST: $115,400 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COASTTHE OPPORTUNITY FUND: $55,000 · Other+116 more: $865,620 · Other+116 moreFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $25,000 · Human ServicesFINANCIAL BE…SOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS FO…GOLF FORE LIFE SKILLS THE FIRST TEE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $15,700 · Human ServicesGOLF FORE LI…Everstrong Prevention: $12,500 · Human ServicesEverstrong P…THE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10,000 · Human ServicesABILITYFIRST: $10,000 · Human ServicesKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10,000 · Human ServicesNORTHWEST ACCESS FUND: $10,000 · Human ServicesTrinity Youth Services: $10,000 · Human ServicesWORKING SOLUTIONS CDFI: $7,500 · Human Services+14 more: $61,650 · Human Services+14 moreHIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationHIGH SCHOOL…Project Hope Alliance: $22,500 · EducationProject Hop…ARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $20,000 · EducationARIZONA COU…BAY AREA FINANCIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationBAY AREA FI…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA: $15,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIES…PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $10,000 · Education+15 more: $61,850 · Education+15 moreCRAFT3: $55,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $37,750 · Community ImprovementACCESSITY: $15,000 · Community ImprovementDREAMSPRING: $10,000 · Community ImprovementRVC SEATTLE: $7,500 · Community ImprovementPIKE PLACE MARKET FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,700 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $27,344 · PhilanthropyORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $15,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Skagit County: $12,500 · PhilanthropyINVESTED: $10,000 · PhilanthropySKID ROW HOUSING TRUST: $10,000 · PhilanthropyWALLINGFORD COMMUNITY SENIOR CENTER: $5,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,481 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN FAMILY HOUSING: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING HOPE: $17,500 · Housing & ShelterOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHome Trust of Skagit: $10,050 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMONTEBELLO HOUSING DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLINC HOUSING CORPORATION: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER - SAN DIEGO: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE: $10,912 · Youth DevelopmentBoys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley: $10,025 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION JUMP START: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentC5 YOUTH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentGLENDALE YOUTH ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF FULLERTON INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF BASEBALL: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentHOLLENBECK POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREEDOM 4 U: $2,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $850 · Youth Development
Other$1,036,020Human Services$197,350Education$189,350Community Improvement$131,950Philanthropy$108,325Housing & Shelter$102,550Youth Development$71,787

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST: $115,400 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCRAFT3: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY FUND: $55,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $37,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHIGH SCHOOL INC ACADEMIES FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY: $27,344 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFINANCIAL BEGINNINGS: $25,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN FAMILY HOUSING: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOLUTIONS FOR CHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE: $24,221 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $22,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetARIZONA COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCAT: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBAY AREA FINANCIAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOASIS COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL: $16,948 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCHOC FOUNDATION: $15,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND BLINDNESS: $15,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF ORANGE COUNTY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF ARIZONA: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES: $15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF TACOMA: $15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetOrange County Rescue Mission Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMary Erickson Community Housing A Non-Profit Corporation: $15,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SENIORSERV INC: $13,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Skagit County: $12,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetEverstrong Prevention: $12,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTEENS IN PUBLIC SERVICE: $10,912 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHome Trust of Skagit: $10,050 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Huntington Valley: $10,025 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPower 4 Youth Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetINVESTED: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERSHIP HOUSING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSKID ROW HOUSING TRUST: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABILITYFIRST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWorking Wardrobes For A New Start: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMSPRING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF OREGON AND SW WASHINGTON INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

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.

Mufg Union Bank Found…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…Orange County Communi…Farmers & Merchants B…Weingart FoundationMedina FoundationEdwards Lifesciences …The Ralph M Parsons F…Employees Community F…Banc of California Ch…The Devto Support Fou…Washington Federal Fo…
Mufg Union Bank Foundation AgWI45.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Opus Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Opus Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
73report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to Opus Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Opus Community 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 311 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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