How much does The Opportunity Fund give?

The Opportunity Fund reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does The Opportunity Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (71%), International (18%), Employment (6%).

Who are The Opportunity Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Democracy 21 Education Fund ($350k), Hope for Children Fund Inc ($71k), The Barack Obama Foundation ($50k).

Does The Opportunity Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Opportunity Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is The Opportunity Fund based?

The Opportunity Fund is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

The Opportunity Fund

To provide funding to organizations that promote the public good.

$10k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 1
Grants FY2024: 3
Organizations funded FY2023: 33%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $10,000
Organizations funded a year: 2 to 4; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $186k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Opportunity Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	1	$10k	100%
FY2023	3	$73k	33%
FY2022	3	$70k	0%
FY2021	4	$79k	0%
FY2020	3	$69k	33%
FY2019	3	$85k	33%
FY2018	4	$121k	50%
FY2017	2	$61k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Public Benefit$400kInternational$101kEmployment$35kHealth$20kArts & Culture$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Democracy 21 Education Fund	$350,000	7	13%
Hope for Children Fund Inc	$71,333	7	29%
The Barack Obama Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
American Academy in Rome	$30,000	3	0%
Talent Beyond Boundaries Inc	$25,000	1	5%
The Aslan Project Inc	$20,000	2	2%
Working America	$10,000	1	0%
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc	$10,000	1	0%

The Opportunity Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 8.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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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How do I get to The Opportunity Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Opportunity 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.

About The Opportunity Fund

How much does The Opportunity Fund give?: The Opportunity Fund reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Opportunity Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (71%), International (18%), Employment (6%).
Who are The Opportunity Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Democracy 21 Education Fund ($350k), Hope for Children Fund Inc ($71k), The Barack Obama Foundation ($50k).
Does The Opportunity Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Opportunity Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Opportunity Fund based?: The Opportunity Fund is based in CA.