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Opus Prize Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Religion$2.1MEducation$1.7MInternational$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHealth$275kHuman Services$140kCrime & Legal$113kCivil Rights$101kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Centre for Women Studies and Intervention$1,000,000
Thrive for Life Prision Project Inc$100,000
Jesuit Refugee Service Romania$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
Marianas Alliance for Growth of Islanders$10,000
Eagle Valley Land Trust$10,000
The Gray House$6,000
Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activites$5,000
Homework House$5,000
Sisters of St Joseph of Springfield$2,500
College of Our Lady of the Elms$1,500
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.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Tanzanian Children's Fund Inc: $5k → 8%Hour Children Inc: $100k → 13%Village Exchange Center Inc: $10k → 8%Step by Step: $5k → 9%Village Exchange Center: $5k → 8%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $3k → 8%Spoon Foundation: $10k → 12%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
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
PA
NJ
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
LA
TX

Beyond the US: 18% of all-years giving ($1.3M)

4 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Nigeria$1.1M · 2 grants
Romania$100k · 1 grant
India$70k · 1 grant
Malawi$15k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Opus Prize Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Opus Prize Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 21% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$170k · 11 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
38

Total granted

$170k
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+9%

Still filing today

82%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & 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

  • TI
    TeamLift Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue ×58
  • MOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $20k · revenue +6%
  • VE
    VILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • RC
    RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD MISSION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2019 · $1.0M
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
Saint Xavier University

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…

Education
2
Benedictine University

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…

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
La Roche University

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.

Education
6
Le Moyne College

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.

Education
7
Loyola University

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…

Education
8
Trinity University

Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.

Education
9
Columbia College

Columbia college improves lives by providing quality education to both traditional and nontraditional students, helping them achieve their true potential.

Education
10
Augustana College

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…

Education
11
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
12
Cabrini Legacy Corporation

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Beyond Borders; 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.
05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 58 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
24/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · OtherRED CLOUD INDIAN SCHOOLSOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH INC: $1,000,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OF THE FAITH INCGOOD SHEPHERD MISSION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,000,000 · OtherGOOD SHEPHERD MISSION DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONCentre for Women Studies and Intervention: $1,000,000 · OtherCentre for Women Studies and Intervention+24 more: $859,500 · Other+24 moreCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY RENEW…XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $90,000 · EducationXAVIER UNI…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $87,500 · EducationPRESIDENT-…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $85,000 · EducationVILLANOVA …ST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $78,000 · EducationST LOUIS U…THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $78,000 · EducationTHE CATHOL…LOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $78,000 · EducationLOYOLA UNI…TeamLift Inc: $77,500 · EducationTeamLift I…CENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC: $40,000 · EducationCENTER FOR…+5 more: $28,000 · EducationTHE ST LUKE FOUNDATION FOR HAITI: $100,000 · InternationalCARAS OF THE AMERICAS: $100,000 · InternationalDAMIEN HOUSE INC: $100,000 · International+5 more: $32,500 · InternationalInternational Cancer Care and Research Excellence Foundation Inc: $100,000 · HealthROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $75,000 · HealthHOUR CHILDREN INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSPOON FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC: $100,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$4,859,500Community Improvement$1,000,000Education$642,000International$332,500Health$175,000Human Services$137,500Crime & Legal$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY RENEWAL INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE ST LUKE FOUNDATION FOR HAITI: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCATHOLIC PARTNERSHIP SCHOOLS CAMDEN: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCARAS OF THE AMERICAS: $100,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetKINO BORDER INITIATIVE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHOUR CHILDREN INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetInternational Cancer Care and Research Excellence Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetTHRIVE FOR LIFE PRISON PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetDAMIEN HOUSE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $90,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $87,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST LOUIS UNIVERSITY: $78,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA: $78,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $78,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeamLift Inc: $77,500 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOME INC: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR WORKING FAMILIES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMOUNT MARY UNIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE EXCHANGE CENTER INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Gray House Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTALENT BEYOND BOUNDARIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EDINA CRIME PREVENTION FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEWORK HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSPOON FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMERCY BEYOND BORDERS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOBILITY INTERNATIONAL USA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBreck School: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROSPERITY CATALYST INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER TWIN CITIES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PORTLAND: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEP BY STEP FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION FIRST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF EAGLE CNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENEDICT CENTER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

GHR FoundationRaskob Foundation for…Catholic Community Fo…Conrad N Hilton Found…Globalgiving Foundati…Joseph Rauenhorst Fam…Mightycause Charitabl…Baird Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…The Minneapolis Found…Vanguard Charitable E…Impactassetsinc
GHR FoundationMN21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Homework House Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Mobility International Usa: 33% of income from government
  • University of Portland: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Opus Prize Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Opus Prize 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 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home