· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $62,500 |
| UNIVERSITY CORP AT MONTEREY | $30,000 |
| CSMUB COLLEGE OF BUSINESS | $30,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY | $20,000 |
| YORK SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MACALESTER COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM | $3,500 |
| PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| RACE TO ERASE MS | $1,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY25–25, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- MDMIT DELTA V PROGRAM2× · 2022–2023 · $100k
- CCCSMUB COLLEGE OF BUSINESS4× · 2022–2025 · $83k
- GSGATEWAY SCHOOL4× · 2022–2025 · $80k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- UCUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAYone grant, 2025 · $30k · revenue 0%
- LPLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTHone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue -33%
- CCCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2025 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Minnesota Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Valley Churches United. 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 48 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 31 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE YORK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MACALESTER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RACE TO ERASE MS ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHURCHES UNITED ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SERVICES-SERVICIOS MONARCA ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA CRUZ CHORALE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CABRILLO FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF ARTS AND DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz SPCA and Humane Society ↗
- Who funds BONE HEALTH AND OSTEOPOROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION 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: 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
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 The Fane and Corie Opperman 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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.