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GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC

GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,562,519 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($3,300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$8.6M
Net assets
$-205314
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 93%
01What it does

What Growth Opportunity Partners Inc does

Mission

To provide advisory services, financial solutions, and advocacy, to cultivate more resilient persons and communities prevsiously under-resourced and under-valued, utilimately to imporve quality of life, outputs, and outcomes with a particular focus on disadvantaged communities and persons.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide advisory services, financial solutions, and advocacy, to cultivate more resilient persons and communities prevsiously under-resourced and under-valued, utilimately to imporve quality of life, outputs, and outcomes with a particular focus on disadvantaged communities and persons.

    $1,356,446 spent$37,568 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,356,446.

02The 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 ($2.0M) Expenses 100 ($855k) Net assets 100 ($1.5M)2018 Revenue 43 ($834k) Expenses 106 ($903k) Net assets 95 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 44 ($859k) Expenses 134 ($1.1M) Net assets 76 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 153 ($3.0M) Expenses 170 ($1.5M) Net assets 179 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 106 ($2.1M) Expenses 244 ($2.1M) Net assets 184 ($2.7M)2022 Revenue 133 ($2.6M) Expenses 250 ($2.1M) Net assets 214 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 51 ($994k) Expenses 337 ($2.9M) Net assets 90 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 60 ($1.2M) Expenses 318 ($2.7M) Net assets -14 ($-205314)
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Revenue (60)Expenses (318)Net assets (-14)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $5.9M to $2.9M (−51%).

$5.2M
$4.9M
$4.5M
$7.1M
$7.0M
$7.8M
$5.9M
$2.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (61% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 4,434 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$1.1M
’17
−$68k
’18
−$291k
’19
$1.5M
’20
−$21k
’21
$450k
’22
−$1.9M
’23
−$1.6M
’24
8.4
months of
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

Michael Jeans

President/chief executive

Board chair

Ndeda Letson

Chair of the board

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed66777777
Joined·+0+1+0+0+0+0+0
No longer listed·0000000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $175k → $500k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS 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

GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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

53% 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 GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC.

39%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 87% · 2020 73% · 2021 61% · 2022 41% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

25% of GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

77% of GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

NY
OH
PA
RI
CA

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

’17
’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,203 community improvement nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−134% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,203 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Government funding GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $156.1M on record.

Federal$156.1M
grants $156.1Mcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Environmental Protection Agency$156.1M

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 GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS 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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

50% of spending goes to programs.

Program 50%Management 50%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

99%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC?
GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC (Ohio) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,562,519 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION ($3,300,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $8,562,519 in grants to GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC?
THE GEORGE GUND FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GROWTH OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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