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The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation

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.

$231k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
29
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$62,500
Organizations funded a year
2 to 10
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$5.5M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving27$168k70%
FY20246$77k0%
FY20238$125k0%
FY202210$150k80%
FY20212$2kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$316kScience & Tech$101kCommunity Improvement$83kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$41kHealth$30kEnvironment$7kFood & Nutrition$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGateway School: $80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way of Monterey County: $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe York School: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMacalester College: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity Corporation at Monterey Bay: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Cancer Research Fund: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRace to Erase Ms: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDominican Hospital Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Minnesota Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonarch Services-Servicios Monarca: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Cruz Chorale: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetValley Churches United: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPositive Coaching Alliance: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Cruz SPCA and Humane Society: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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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.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Dignity Health · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

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About The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation

How much does The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation give?
The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $231,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (50%), Science & Tech (16%), Community Improvement (13%).
Who are The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Gateway School ($80k), United Way of Monterey County ($50k), The York School ($50k).
Does The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Community Foundation Santa Cruz County, Dignity Health.
Where is The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation based?
The Fane and Corie Opperman Foundation is based in CA.

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 31 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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