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OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC

OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$490k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$20k
Net assets
$30k
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Opportunities Unlimited of Erie Inc does

Mission

Opportunities Unlimited of Erie promotes the pursuit of excellence, commitment to integrity, and development of strong character by creating employment opportunities for people with physical and intellectual disabilities in the community and supporting them in achieving their goals. OU believes that every individual has the potential to engage in meaningful job training and employment.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Workforce readiness and support of individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities in the community. Assistance in ensuring that every individual has the potential to engage in meaningful job training and employment.

    $407,885 spent$490,086 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $407,885.

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 ($881k) Expenses 100 ($846k) Net assets 100 ($62k)2018 Revenue 96 ($847k) Expenses 101 ($850k) Net assets 95 ($59k)2019 Revenue 90 ($793k) Expenses 94 ($796k) Net assets 91 ($57k)2020 Revenue 66 ($579k) Expenses 84 ($709k) Net assets -119 ($-73810)2021 Revenue 29 ($252k) Expenses 41 ($349k) Net assets -275 ($-170767)2022 Revenue 56 ($495k) Expenses 34 ($288k) Net assets 58 ($36k)2023 Revenue 31 ($269k) Expenses 32 ($272k) Net assets 54 ($33k)2024 Revenue 48 ($425k) Expenses 50 ($420k) Net assets 63 ($39k)2025 Revenue 56 ($490k) Expenses 59 ($499k) Net assets 48 ($30k)
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Revenue (56)Expenses (59)Net assets (48)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 2021 to 2022, from $195k to $90k (−54%).

$219k
$199k
$297k
$286k
$195k
$90k
$59k
$79k
$76k
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 3% · 2021 32% · 2022 0% · 2023 16% · 2024 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,334 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’17
−$3k
’18
−$3k
’19
−$131k
’20
−$97k
’21
$207k
’22
−$2k
’23
$6k
’24
−$9k
’25
0.5
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.

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Listed7108697776
Joined·+3+1+0+9+0+1+0+0
No longer listed·03262101
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $10k.

Funder
'17
'19
total
funders
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE 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

OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC.

50%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 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.

Where its funders are

50% of OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE 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 $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Pennsylvania funders.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · above the median
Months of reserve0.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,980 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

6
board members
117%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

PA

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC?
OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,000 to it, the largest being STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC ($10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $20,000 in grants to OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC.
Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC?
STAIRWAYS BEHAVIORAL HEALTH INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPPORTUNITIES UNLIMITED OF ERIE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2 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