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Opus Prize 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Centre for Women Studies and Intervention | $1,000,000 |
| Jesuit Refugee Service Romania | $100,000 |
| Thrive for Life Prision Project Inc | $100,000 |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $90,000 |
| Servants of the Blessed Virgin Mary | $15,000 |
| TeamLift Inc | $15,000 |
| Edina Crime Prevention Fund | $10,000 |
| Eagle Valley Land Trust | $10,000 |
| Marianas Alliance for Growth of Islanders | $10,000 |
| The Gray House | $6,000 |
| Homework House | $5,000 |
| Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activites | $5,000 |
| Sisters of St Joseph of Springfield | $2,500 |
| College of Our Lady of the Elms | $1,500 |
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 US giving — 82% of grant dollars ($6.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 18% that went abroad ($1.3M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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
Beyond the US — 18% of all-years giving ($1.3M)
4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Opus Prize Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- TITeamLift Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue ×58
MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +6%- VEVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- CRCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M · revenue -2% · 28% of their budget
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- RCRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $1.0M
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.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Benedictine University is an inclusive academic community dedicated to teaching and learning, scholarship and service, truth and justice, as inspired by the Catholic intellectual tradition, the social teaching of the Church, and the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
La roche university advances learning informed by ethical and service-oriented values, reflecting its catholic heritage and the charism of the sisters of divine providence.
The College is a diverse learning community that strives for academic excellence in the Catholic and Jesuit tradition through comprehensive programs rooted in the liberal arts and sciences.
Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit and Catholic institution of higher education, welcomes students of diverse backgrounds and prepares them to lead meaningful lives with and for others; to pursue truth, wisdom, and virtue; and to work…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
See schedule o.education of the heart: cabrini university was a catholic institution of higher education. the cabrini legacy corporation exists to protect the legacy of the former university.cabrini university was a catholic institution of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Beyond Borders and the most unlike its peers is Community Renewal International Inc. 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 58 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
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 COMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds KINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds International Cancer Care and Research Excellence Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN ↗
- Who funds CARAS OF THE AMERICAS ↗
- Who funds DAMIEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST LUKE FOUNDATION FOR HAITI ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds TeamLift Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SOME INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Gray House Inc ↗
- Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SPOON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE EDINA CRIME PREVENTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES 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: GHR Foundation · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · Joseph Rauenhorst Family Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Impactassetsinc
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 Prize 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Homework House Inc — 38% of income from government
- Mobility International Usa — 33% of income from government
- University of Portland — 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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