Illinois · Nonprofit
Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection
Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $40k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $19k
What Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection does
Mission
The Organization's purpose is to bring participants into the inner city to educate, expose, challenge, and motivate them to respond to issues and concerns facing the increasingly urban world. By experiencing God's love in new ways, we can share and demonstrate alternatives to the evils of racism, poverty, and violence that tear down or communities and lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Groups (typically high school students) from rural congregations come to urban centers to do voluntary charitable maintenance work, participate in educational activities, volunteer at not-for-profit social service agencies, and participate in activities that promote interracial and intercultural understanding and harmony.
$24,325 spent$4,441 earned by the program100% of program spendingUpNext is a program for young adults who want to explore on a deeper level how their faith interacts with their commitmen to justice. Our cohort of young adult leaders and their mentors apply POC-affirming models of Christian leadership to make a positive impact in their community. With UpNext, DOOR is committed to equipping youth to become leaders of faith able to meet the needs of their communities both inside and outside of the traditional church model.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $24,325.
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 2018 to 2019, from $222k to $131k (−41%).
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: 2021 46% · 2022 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Andrea Sawyer-Kirksey
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $27.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection’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
Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
61% of Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 9,376 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,376 community improvement nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection: 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 Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection?
- Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,700 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($10,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $25,700 in grants to Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $10,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Discovering Opportunities for Outreach and Reflection find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing