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The 610 Opportunity Fund at a glance

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The 610 Opportunity Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$67k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$41kHuman Services$37kHealth$25kInternational$7kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BlueWatch$30,000
World Link Ministries$20,000
Doulos Partners$5,000
Shepherd Staff$5,000
Hope for Justice International$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
Holcomb Ministries$2,000
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 (FY21–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Christian Service Mission: $7k → 16%Big Oak Ranch Inc: $5k → 18%Shepherd Staff: $13k → 6%Developing Christian Global Leaders: $6k → 13%Shepherd Staff: $10k → 6%Developing Global Christian Leaders: $3k → 13%Shepherd Staff: $5k → 6%Urban Purpose Inc: $2k → 16%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.
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$128k · 7 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
8

Total granted

$128k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

86%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthReligionInternationalOther
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

  • BW
    BLUE WATCH
    3× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +179% · 32% of their budget
  • DP
    DOULOS PARTNERS
    4× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue ×17
  • SS
    SHEPHERDS STAFF INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $28k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CS
    Christian Service Mission Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +5%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • BO
    BIG OAK RANCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Dozen Ministries

Religious

Religion
2
Free to Worship Ministries

This church will be that place of emergency where people can come any time of day or night. We will be a place that will lead people back to health both spiritually and naturally.

Religion
3
Spirit Invasion Ministries

Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
4
Jesus in Vietnam Ministries
Religion
5
Global City Missions Initiative Incorporated

Global City Mission Initiative is dedicated to cross-cultural evanglism, disciplemaking, church planting among diverse diaspora populations in strategic cities reaching out evangelistically to start multiply churches, training believers to…

Religion
6
Christian Ministries International
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7
Asia Us Impact

Religious

Religion
8
Wayne Dorsett Ministries Inc

To reach lost people with the transforming Gospel of Jesus Christ

Religion
9
Serving Beyond Borders

Serving and pastoring overseas workers on their own turf and equipping nationals by training and empowering them in their work of advancing the gospel.

Human Services
10
Barnabas Leadership Ministries

Ministry

—
11
Faithbytheword Incorporated

As Christs followers, we have the Holy Spirit residing within us, which means we have His power to fulfill this command. We cant save anyone, but its our responsibility to tell people about the God who can. How will they believe unless…

Human Services
12
Bowlin Ministries Nc

Evangelist

Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PIONEER61 Inc; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE WATCH: $40,000 · HealthBLUE WATCHHOLCOMB MINISTRIES: $11,000 · HealthHOLCOMB MINISTRIESREFUGE 1212 INC: $5,500 · HealthREFUGE 1212 INCSHEPHERDS STAFF INC: $28,400 · Human ServicesSHEPHERDS STAFF INCDeveloping Global Christian Leaders Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesDeveloping Global Christian Lea…Christian Service Mission Inc: $6,750 · Human ServicesChristian Service Mission IncBIG OAK RANCH INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBIG OAK RANCH INCURBAN PURPOSE INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesDOULOS PARTNERS: $30,000 · InternationalDOULOS PARTNERSPIONEER61 INC: $2,000 · InternationalPIONEER61 INCWORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 · ReligionWORLD LINK MINISTR…SAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSEMIO Frontiers: $5,000 · ReligionMIO FrontiersSEND RELIEF INC: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherHope for Justice International: $2,500 · OtherSHADES MOUNTAIN BAPTIST CHURCH: $2,254 · Other
Health$56,500Human Services$51,150International$32,000Religion$30,000Other$14,254

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 budgetBLUE WATCH: $40,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetDOULOS PARTNERS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSHEPHERDS STAFF INC: $28,400 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWORLD LINK MINISTRIES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOLCOMB MINISTRIES: $11,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetDeveloping Global Christian Leaders Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetChristian Service Mission Inc: $6,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGE 1212 INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG OAK RANCH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER61 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBAN PURPOSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation of Greater BirminghamAL15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 The 610 Opportunity Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 610 Opportunity Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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