How much did THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST grant in FY2024?

Education$13MEnvironment$1.6MCommunity Improvement$325kHuman Services$194kCivil Rights$81kArts & Culture$75kHealth$38kRecreation & Sports$25kYouth Development$20kOther$7.9M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

autonomous districtdistrict expansionperforming expansionparent leadershipexisting improvementstalent pipelines

2020

fergusonautonomous districtdistrict expansionperforming expansionparent leadershiptalent pipelines

2021

fellowshipexisting improvementsparent leadershipperforming expansiontalent pipelinesstudents

2022

reinventioneducationalstlparent leadershipexperiences studentsperforming expansionexisting improvements

2023

alignedexisting improvementexisting expansionresearch learninglearning policydiverse effectiveeffective teachers

2024

existing improvementalignedexisting expansionatlasdiversestudentsacademically

2025

existing improvementexisting expansiondiverse effectiveeffective teachersteachers leadersdistrict conditionsconditions success

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $49k
$10k–50k3 grants · $61k
$50k–250k4 grants · $351k
$250k+13 grants · $5.5M

$200,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

ST LOUIS VOICES ACADEMY$732,175
PREMIER CHARTER SCHOOL$550,000
KAIROS ACADEMIES$509,596
BRIDGE 2 HOPE$504,210
NAVIGATE STL SCHOOLS$502,500
THE LEADERSHIP SCHOOL$450,152
BELIEVE SCHOOLS$450,000
CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI$338,000
MOMENTUM ACADEMY$300,585
ST LOUIS TEACHER RESIDENCY$300,000
KIPP ST LOUIS$292,455
ATLAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS$290,670
THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF UNIVERSITY CITY$266,220
MISSOURI CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION$200,000
SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER$51,350

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $194k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21% — the area typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$23M · 30 repeat orgs$646k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$23M

$587k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%

+139%

Still filing today

63%

56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

CG
CITY GARDEN MONTESSORI
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +150%
NS
NAVIGATE STL SCHOOLS
4× · 2021–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +182% · 100% of their budget
KA
KAIROS ACADEMY
6× · 2019–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +17760% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

NS
NORTH SIDE COMMUNITY SCHOOLgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $103k · revenue +104%
FT
FORWARD THROUGH FERGUSONgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $81k · revenue +149%
TE
THE EDUCATION EQUITY CENTER OF ST LOUIS
one grant, 2021 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Level Up Academy

By tapping the intrinsic motivation and curiosity of every child, we deliver higher than usual growth.

Education

La Salle Charter Schools Inc

La salle middle school is a public charter school located in st. louis. la salle is committed to transforming children and our community through innovative education. students at la salle are pushed to achieve excellence academically,…

Education

Elevate St Louis

Teaching and mentoring

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Creative City Public Charter School

Allow teachers, students and parents to share governance and cooperate on curriculum and community decisions, building on the inquisitive nature of children to drive the project-based arts-integrated curriculum, developing self-directed…

Education

Spruce Street School

Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…

Education

Washington Leadership Academy Public

Our mission is to prepare our kids to thrive in the world and change it for the better. our graduates are college ready, have career ready tech skills, and lead positive change in their communities and the world.

Education

School of Leadership for Public Service

We empower educators, public service and safety employees and leaders, parents, and students to collaborate in building and implementing a unique learning program where students develop a sense of community service and carve a path toward…

Education

City Garden Grade School

A school inspired by waldorf education in mid-missouri with an intellectually rich curriculum that inspires creativity and self discovery.

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South City Community School

South city community school exists to be an intentionally accessible christian school in the city of st. louis, to provide students a feast of ideas preparing them for their next academic endeavor. the school's vision is to cultivate a…

Education

Academie Lafayette

Charter public school providing french immersion curriculum to students in kindergarten through 10th grade. academie lafayette is a national leader in language immersion and global studies education, empowering students to make a…

Human Services

Kuumba Academy Charter School Inc

Kuumba Academy Mission is to provide an innovative learning environment focused on the whole child. Kuumba Academy directors, staff and parents share a core belief that parents are the primary educators and are in partnership with Kuumba…

Education

Saint Louis Sudbury School

Saint Louis Sudbury School offers self-directed education for ages 5-18. Our mission: "We believe that children are born with the drive and skills to create a meaningful and successful life and learn best when given the opportunity to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lift for Life Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nami National. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 14 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/41

the rest of the field

12%

1,244/10,116

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.

05the grantee network

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

35/36

Grantees still filing

33/36

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$13,371,081Other$8,001,079Environment$1,598,874Community Improvement$325,000Human Services$194,200Civil Rights$81,000Arts & Culture$75,000

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.

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.

St Louis Community Foundation IncMO37.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · St Louis Community Foundation · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Washington University · Trio Foundation of St Louis · William T Kemper Foundation · Youthbridge Community Foundation · Employees of Community Fund · Norman J Stupp Foundation · St Louis Philanthropic Organization · Charter Fund 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 organisation THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NAVIGATE STL SCHOOLS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.8× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842862378 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on NAVIGATE STL SCHOOLS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Opportunity Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Opportunity Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Opportunity Trust?

More from the funding graph

THE OPPORTUNITY TRUST

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

36 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Opportunity Trust?

More from the funding graph