How much does The Opaline Fund give?

The Opaline Fund reported 1 grants totaling $15,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Opaline Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (38%), Arts & Culture (27%), Environment (13%).

Who are The Opaline Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Iyyun Inc ($415k), Immaterial Incorporated ($400k), Lamplighters Yeshivah ($380k).

Does The Opaline Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Where is The Opaline Fund based?

The Opaline Fund is based in CA.

The Opaline Fund

The Opaline Fund at a glance

· Public charity

The Opaline Fund

Q: Which funders back the same organizations as The Opaline Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Orphiflamme Foundation, The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego.

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the jewish community federation of san francisco, the peninsula, marin and sonoma counties.

$15k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$15k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Religion$1.9MArts & Culture$1.4MEnvironment$644kEducation$203kPhilanthropy$185kFood & Nutrition$182kHealth$160kCommunity Improvement$132kOther$0

02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$424k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FRIENDS OF CHABAD OF BARCELONA IN THE USA	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.5M · 43 repeat orgs$368k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

43 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.5M

$353k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%

Still filing today

81%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEnvironmentReligionEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

II
IMMATERIAL INCORPORATED
7× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +47% · 65% of their budget
CF
CENTER FOR JEWISH CULTURE & CREATIVITY
2× · 2021–2022 · $350k · revenue ×12 · 39% of their budget
UA
Urban Adamah
6× · 2017–2022 · $160k · revenue +3%

Funded once

RI
REBOOT INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +87%
CE
CHABAD EAST DC JEWISH CENTER
one grant, 2024 · $40k
H
HAZON
2× · 2017–2018 · $36k

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.

Jewish Farmer Network

To cultivate the social, cultural, and spiritual well-being of Jewish farmers.

Religion

Ganei Beantown Inc

We are building community through hands-on food systems education rooted in Jewish text, tradition and culture. We support Jewish institutions to create initiatives such as learning gardens, run experiential programs, and host pluralistic…

Education

Jewish Farm School

The jewish farm school teaches about contemporary food and environmental issues through innovative trainings and skill-based jewish agricultural education.

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Institute of Soil and Soul

The institute of soil and soul is a nonprofit jewish community farm that practices regenerative agriculture, donates all of its produce to local food pantries, and provides agricultural education rooted in jewish wisdom. our mission is to…

Food & Nutrition

University of Judaism Foundation

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The Yesod Avoda Foundation

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Institute for the Next Jewish Future Injf

Judaism unbound is a digitally driven, radically open center for education and serves as a catalyst for an entirely new era of judaism. we empower regular jews who are to develop new ways of living jewishly.

Arts & Culture

Jj Greenberg Institute for the Advancment of Jewish Life Inc

The organization was formed to operate to develop and disseminate a narrative of jewry and judaism that can sustain jewish identity of jews fully integrated in post-modern culture. the institute's program will help translate the narrative…

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The Jewish Studio Project

Through thought leadership, community programs, leadership development, and organizational partnerships, jsp is building a movement to activate the creative power of the jewish community.

Religion

The Steinhardt Foundation for Jewish Life Inc

Religion

Dorot Foundation

Philanthropy

The Jewish Wisdom Foundation

To create a dynamic community of Jews, nourished by mutual respect and honest, open dialogue, challenging stereotypes, invigorating curiosity, plumbing the depths of their great heritage and empowering a revolution in Jewish identity. In…

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is Kav LNoar Foundation. 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

49 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. 49 of the 63 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/49

Grantees still filing

26/49

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,950,000Arts & Culture$1,315,000Environment$619,000Education$455,500Religion$419,000Philanthropy$198,000Community Improvement$172,000

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

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 Orphiflamme FoundationCO47.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Orphiflamme Foundation · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Jewish Communal Fund · The Polis Schutz Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Friedman Family Charitable Trust · Upstart Bay Area · Covenant Foundation · Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

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 Opaline Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Opaline Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

4get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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

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How do I get to The Opaline Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Opaline Fund 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.

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More from the funding graph

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