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Opus Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
164
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$333k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$4.9MYouth Development$3.8MHousing & Shelter$3.6MEmployment$2.9MHuman Services$2.5MCommunity Improvement$1.3MPhilanthropy$915kInternational$713kOther$0
02FY2024 · 164 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k74 grants · $330k
  • $10k–50k43 grants · $575k
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $333k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$139M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of St Thomas$333,334
University of St Thomas$240,000
Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity$150,000
Operation Breakthrough$150,000
Aeon$150,000
Project for Pride in Living Inc$150,000
Construction Careers Foundation$150,000
Building Futures$125,000
Project Iowa$100,000
Summit Academy OIC$100,000
Dunwoody College of Technology$100,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Kansas City$100,000
Camp Fire Minnesota$100,000
Denver Kids Inc$100,000
Colorado Coalition for the Homeless$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%New Visions Homeless Services: $50k → 12%Lutheran Child & Family Services of Indiana: $30k → 16%Project IOWA: $40k → 10%Project IOWA: $30k → 10%St Mary's Child Center: $66k → 16%St Mary's Early Childhood Center: $50k → 16%St Mary's Early Childhood Center: $50k → 16%St Mary's Early Childhood Center: $50k → 16%St Mary's Early Childhood Center: $50k → 16%St Mary's Child Center: $50k → 16%St Mary's Child Center: $45k → 16%Black Men Teach: $50k → 14%Christopher House: $100k → 14%Christopher House: $100k → 14%Christopher House: $50k → 14%Christopher House: $50k → 14%Christopher House: $50k → 14%Christopher House: $30k → 14%Christopher House: $30k → 14%International Institute of Minnesota: $50k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $100k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $80k → 14%International Institute of Minnesota: $50k → 14%Project Iowa: $100k → 10%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $80k → 14%International Institute of Minnesota: $50k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $50k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $50k → 14%YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago: $50k → 14%Black Men Teach: $100k → 14%The Link: $68k → 11%YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities: $41k → 11%YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities: $30k → 11%YMCA of the Greater Twin Cities: $20k → 11%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $150k → 11%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $150k → 11%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $100k → 11%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $100k → 11%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $75k → 11%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $50k → 11%Project for Pride in Living Inc: $30k → 11%Avivo: $25k → 11%The Power of People Leadership Institute: $50k → 11%The Power of People Leadership Institute: $50k → 11%The Power of People Leadership Institute: $50k → 11%The Power of People Leadership Institute: $25k → 11%YouthLink: $50k → 11%YouthLink: $43k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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MN
IL
WI
MI
MA
NV
WY
SD
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IN
OH
CA
CO
NE
MO
AZ
KS
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$21M · 201 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

201 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
148

Total granted

$21M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+20%

Still filing today

85%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • UO
    University of St Thomas
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +38%
  • TC
    TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $985k · revenue +53%
  • PF
    PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $670k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • EG
    EMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -68%
  • CC
    COMMUNITY CAPITAL FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +307%
  • HM
    HOPE MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Minnesota Business Partnership

The minnesota business partnership's mission is to maintain a high quality of life for all minnesotans by ensuring that the state's economy remains strong, globally competitive and its prospects for growth bright by working with elected…

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2
Homeward Bound Inc

Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.

Human Services
3
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
4
Neighborhood Housing Services of Duluth One Roof Lending

To provide financing that will help people of lower income find, purchase, and fix their homes, for both single family homes as well as rental housing situations.

Community Improvement
5
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
6
United Way of Ne Minnesota

United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.

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7
Minnesota Chamber of Commerce and Industry

The minnesota chamber of commerce proactively leads the business community statewide to: advance pro-business, responsible minnesota public policy that creates jobs and grows the econony; provde member services to address evolving business…

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8
African Development Center

Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota

Human Services
9
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

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10
Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin Inc

Eliminating barriers to employment by providing pathways for those who are underserved, underrepresented and disadvantaged who have a goal of building skills that lead to sustained employment and improved financial stability.

Human Services
11
Great Plains Food Bank

End hunger together.

Food & Nutrition
12
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Society of St Vincent De Paul - Twin Cities. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportCommunity FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Developm…Lgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Arts CentersPublic Library OperationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Domestic Violence ServicesYouth Development CentersCommunity Food PantriesLocal History MuseumsEquine Therapy ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Developmental Disabilities …Cancer Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Military Veterans SupportYouth Development ServicesAffordable Housing Construc…Environmental Conservation …Christian Youth CampsYouth Sports ProgramsUnited Way AffiliatesFood Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number17%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr16%28%35–55yr18%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value17%1%<5yr12%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr18%27%55yr+

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%3/335
the rest of the field
10%
3,826/38,654

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.

04the grantee network

320 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. 320 of the 385 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
65
Early backer (in before they grew)
317/320
Grantees still filing
210/320
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

University of St Thomas — $1,829,479 · EducationUniversity of St ThomasOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $507,500 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH I…SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $430,000 · EducationSUMMIT ACADEMY OICDENVER KIDS INC — $375,655 · EducationDENVER KIDS INCPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $195,000 · EducationAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $185,000 · EducationHOPE ACADEMY INC — $180,000 · Education+21 more — $1,111,500 · Education+21 moreCONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION — $1,170,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONSTRUCTION CAREERS F…Building Futures Inc — $630,650 · Youth DevelopmentBuilding Futures IncCAMP FIRE MINNESOTA — $436,400 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE MINNESOTABOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $380,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS CLUB OF GREATER K…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $370,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTE…FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES — $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINI…YEAR ONE INC — $232,500 · Youth DevelopmentYEAR ONE INCGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC — $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $170,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTARFISH INC — $169,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $243,000 · Youth Development+4 moreTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $985,000 · OtherTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITYColorado Coalition for the Homeless — $481,500 · OtherColorado Coalition for the HomelessPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $450,000 · OtherPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIESMIGIZI — $360,000 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $431,500 · OtherCHILD CRISIS ARIZONANew Pathways For Youth — $280,400 · Other+91 more — $4,116,086 · Other+91 morePROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $669,500 · Human ServicesPROJECT FOR PRID…CHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $410,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTOPHER HOUS…The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $410,000 · Human ServicesThe YMCA of Metr…ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC — $361,000 · Human ServicesST MARY'S CHILD …PROJECT IOWA — $185,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT IOWAPOWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $175,000 · Human ServicesPOWER OF PEOPLE …Black Men Teach — $155,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $150,000 · Human Services+24 more — $759,000 · Human Services+24 moreGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $607,755 · PhilanthropyMICROGRANTS — $85,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FDN OF GREATER DES MOINES F/K/A GREATER DES MOINES COMMUNITY FDN — $55,000 · PhilanthropySAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $45,120 · PhilanthropyAEON — $300,000 · Housing & ShelterREBUILDING TOGETHER METRO CHICAGO — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $133,000 · Housing & ShelterGREATER DES MOINES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $35,000 · Housing & ShelterRebuilding Together Kansas City Inc — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHOPE COMMUNITY INC — $29,500 · Housing & Shelter+9 more — $149,000 · Housing & ShelterTwin Cities Rise — $320,000 · EmploymentGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INC — $238,500 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES — $133,500 · EmploymentDRESS FOR SUCCESS INDIANAPOLIS — $80,000 · Employment+2 more — $25,000 · Employment
Education$4,814,134Youth Development$4,326,550Other$7,104,486Human Services$3,274,500Philanthropy$842,875Housing & Shelter$826,500Employment$797,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of St Thomas — $1,829,479 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION — $1,170,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $985,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC — $669,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBuilding Futures Inc — $630,650 over 6y, 47% of budgetGREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY — $607,755 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $507,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES — $450,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCAMP FIRE MINNESOTA — $436,400 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCHILD CRISIS ARIZONA — $431,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OIC — $430,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCHRISTOPHER HOUSE — $410,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetThe YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago — $410,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY — $380,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetDENVER KIDS INC — $375,655 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES — $370,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC — $361,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetTwin Cities Rise — $320,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetAEON — $300,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES — $300,000 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetNew Pathways For Youth — $280,400 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetGOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INC — $238,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONBOND COMMUNITIES — $234,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYEAR ONE INC — $232,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC — $225,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX — $215,075 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGoodwill Industries Inc — $200,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLake Street Council — $197,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC — $195,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM — $185,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetPROJECT IOWA — $185,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetHOPE ACADEMY INC — $180,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $175,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetPOWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE — $175,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetGREAT RIVER GREENING — $170,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetJACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION — $170,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSTARFISH INC — $169,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetPATHWAY FINANCIAL EDUCATION — $160,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCONSTRUCTION EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLORADO — $157,500 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetDUNWOODY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY — $155,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBlack Men Teach — $155,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER METRO CHICAGO — $150,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINNESOTA — $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN BOATBUILDERS INC — $143,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS TWIN CITIES — $133,500 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetRebuilding Together - Twin Cities — $133,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHEART MINISTRY CENTER — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budget
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 University of St Thomas ↗
  • Who funds CONSTRUCTION CAREERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds Building Futures Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds PILLSBURY UNITED COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE MINNESOTA ↗
  • Who funds CHILD CRISIS ARIZONA ↗
  • Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OIC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
  • Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
  • Who funds DENVER KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S CHILD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Twin Cities Rise ↗
  • Who funds AEON ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM FOR YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds New Pathways For Youth ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL LEGACY GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMONBOND COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds YEAR ONE INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC ↗
  • Who funds DIOCESAN COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE PHOENIX ↗
  • Who funds Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lake Street Council ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION - KANSAS CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT IOWA ↗
  • Who funds HOPE ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC ↗
  • Who funds POWER OF PEOPLE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GREAT RIVER GREENING ↗
  • Who funds JACKIE JOYNER KERSEE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STARFISH INC ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAY FINANCIAL EDUCATION ↗

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.

Fr Bigelow FoundationTarget FoundationSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Pohlad Family Foundat…Otto Bremer TrustThe Walser FoundationThe Richard M Schulze…Greater Twin Cities U…Xcel Energy FoundationHardenbergh FoundationCh Robinson Worldwide…
Fr Bigelow FoundationMN57.8× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fr Bigelow Foundation · Target Foundation · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Pohlad Family Foundation · Otto Bremer Trust · The Walser Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Xcel Energy Foundation · Hardenbergh Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide 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 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
92report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Opus Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Opus 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 385 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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