New York · Nonprofit
COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC
COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,969 to it, the largest being HRBT FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $371k
- Net assets
- $219k
What Columbia Opportunities Inc does
Mission
Columbia opportunities, inc's mission is to help solve poverty related problems in the community. The goal is to provide opportunities to families and individuals so that they may attain the skills, knowledge and resources they need to become self-reliant.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Weatherization program - assists income-eligible households by reducing heating and cooling costs through energy-conservation measures, while also addressing health and safety issues in their homes.
$480,471 spent$1,495 earned by the program21% of program spendingCommunity services block grant program - funds are used to support core services and activities for individuals and families with low incomes that help to alleviate the causes and conditions of poverty in our community. Services include: family literacy, emergency interventions for food and shelter needs and volunteer income tax assistance.
$220,214 spent$2,652 earned by the program9% of program spendingHead start supports children's growth through services centered around early learning and development, health, and family well-being. Head start staff actively engage parents, recognizing family participation throughout the program as key to strong child outcomes.
$1,522,200 spent$58,345 earned by the program65% of program spendingOther
$115,903 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,338,788.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $584k to $1.1M (+87%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 99% · 2019 90% · 2020 96% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 91% · 2024 95% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Tina M Sharpe
Executive director
Board chair
Bruce Frishkoff Med Mapm
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $3k → $18k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
26% 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 COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2019 54% · 2020 29% · 2021 38% · 2022 64% · 2023 52% — 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
30% of COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% give in more than one year at all.
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
92% of COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 3 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $15.9M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$15.8M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$145k
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 COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC (New York) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $370,969 to it, the largest being HRBT FOUNDATION ($150,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $370,969 in grants to COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC?
- HRBT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLUMBIA OPPORTUNITIES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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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 14 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing