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BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC

BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,014,836 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($286,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.6M
Revenue FY2025
20
Funders on record
$1.0M
Grants received
$0
Net assets
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%

Against its field

BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,983 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin12% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,983 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.2M) Expenses 100 ($3.3M)2018 Revenue 105 ($3.4M) Expenses 104 ($3.4M)2019 Revenue 107 ($3.4M) Expenses 104 ($3.4M)2020 Revenue 109 ($3.5M) Expenses 104 ($3.4M)2021 Revenue 134 ($4.3M) Expenses 120 ($3.9M)2022 Revenue 145 ($4.7M) Expenses 120 ($3.9M)2023 Revenue 139 ($4.5M) Expenses 127 ($4.2M)2024 Revenue 132 ($4.2M) Expenses 129 ($4.2M)2025 Revenue 144 ($4.6M) Expenses 125 ($4.1M)
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Revenue (144)Expenses (125)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 86% · 2018 90% · 2019 85% · 2020 81% · 2021 86% · 2022 83% · 2023 82% · 2024 85% · 2025 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,740 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
17
$5k
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$16k
19
$101k
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$413k
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$732k
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$311k
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$6k
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$547k
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3.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $48k → $162k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)39% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

79% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC.

28%
largest funder
65%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 82% · 2019 86% · 2020 28% · 2021 36% · 2022 44% · 2023 19%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

45% of BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

94% of BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.

VA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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North Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $398k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.2M on record.

Federal$21.2M
grants $21.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$21.2M

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In North Carolina

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC?
BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,014,836 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS ($286,900). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,014,836 in grants to BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC?
FOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS is the largest funder on record, with $286,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BLUE RIDGE OPPORTUNITY COMMISSION INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing