· Private foundation
The Opportunity 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $2k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE | $300,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $225,000 |
| AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH | $1,000 |
| PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IFINSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +57%
- CICATO INSTITUTE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +88%
- PFPROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT7× · 2017–2023 · $14k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- CMCARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +29%
Chicago Zoological Societygraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +51%
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +32%
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Conduct independent nonpartisan research on u.s. defense policy, military strategy, defense spending, and defense economic policies, disseminate the results to policymakers, public opinion leaders and other defense professionals.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The american political science association ("apsa") supports excellence in scholarship and teaching and informed discourse about politics, policy, and civic participation. the association promotes a lively, diverse community of scholars,…
Agu's mission is to advance and support an inclusive community of earth and space scientists and partners dedicated to discovery and solutions to societal challenges. agu seeks to catalyze discovery and solutions to scientific and societal…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Asps promotes the highest standards in advocacy, research, education, patient safety, and ethical standards for plastic surgery, our members, and their patients.
How this is measured
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROGRAM FOR EARLY PARENT SUPPORT ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SEATTLE-KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Chicago Zoological Society ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON FIRST AID AND RESCUE SQUAD ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND HEALTH ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Opportunity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Opportunity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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