· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k74 grants · $330k
- $10k–50k43 grants · $575k
- $50k–250k46 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of St Thomas | $333,334 |
| University of St Thomas | $240,000 |
| Operation Breakthrough | $150,000 |
| Aeon | $150,000 |
| Project for Pride in Living Inc | $150,000 |
| Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity | $150,000 |
| Construction Careers Foundation | $150,000 |
| Building Futures | $125,000 |
| Project Iowa | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Camp Fire Minnesota | $100,000 |
| Anawim Housing | $100,000 |
| Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys | $100,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities | $100,000 |
| YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago | $100,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $435k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of St Thomas5× · 2019–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +38%
- TCTWIN CITIES HABITAT FOR HUMANITY6× · 2019–2024 · $985k · revenue +53%
- PFPROJECT FOR PRIDE IN LIVING INC6× · 2019–2024 · $670k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- EGEMILY GRIFFITH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $150k · revenue -68%
- CCCOMMUNITY CAPITAL FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +307%
- HMHOPE MINISTRIESone grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -9%
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.
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.
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…
Providing innovative and life-enriching services for children, adolescents, and adults with disabilities.
Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.
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.
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…
United way of northeastern minnesota invests in nonprofits, programs, and collaborations that equip and empower, creating opportunities for people to thrive in our communities.
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…
Grow businesses, build wealth and increase reinvestement in the african communities of minnesota
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…
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.
End hunger together.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
How this is measured
320 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. 320 of the 385 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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 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 The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER HOUSE ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Opus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Opus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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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.
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