Massachusetts · Nonprofit
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,565 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($104,371). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $414k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $319k
- Net assets
- $31k
What Golden Opportunities for Independence Inc does
Mission
To empower our clients to live independently, unencumbered by the challanges of daily living associated with medical disabilities. We match each client with a service dog that meets their individual needs. It is our goal to be flexible with the time needed for the recipient to take their service dog into their lives and provide training services for the life of the dog.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
For over 25 years, our founder has developed a proven system for breeding, raising, and training service dogs specifically for individuals with disabilities. Our dedicated volunteer breeder caretakers nurture our breeding dogs and care for newborn puppies for the first eight weeks of their lives. Following this, volunteer puppy raisers take on the vital role of socializing and providing basic obedience training to our gofi puppies. Each puppy receives professional training at our facility, with every hour dedicated to their care contributing to their growth as future assistance dogs. Our professional dog trainers work intensively with each dog for up to 22 months, teaching them to master essential tasks like picking up dropped items, opening doors, and operating lights to aid individuals with physical disabilities. Over the years, we have bred and trained more than 100 dogs through this successful program. Skilled companions increase independence for children and adults with physical, cognitive, and developmental disabilities, with support from a facilitator, usually a parent or caregiver. Working dogs collaborate with professionals who serve clients, school children, or…
$322,228 spent$218,384 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $322,228.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $130k to $10k (−92%).
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 15% · 2023 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
45% of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (86% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $500 → $39k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE 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
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 66% · 2019 42% · 2020 36% · 2021 57% · 2022 56% · 2023 64% — 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
43% of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
59% of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC'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 $131k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $188k 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
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 6,435 animals nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,435 animals nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $18k on record.
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$18k
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 GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC?
- GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $318,565 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($104,371). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $318,565 in grants to GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $104,371 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2018–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing