Washington · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL
OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,911,394 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,081,631). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $73M
- Funders on record
- 59
- Grants received
- $7.9M
- Net assets
- $26M
What Opportunity Council does
Mission
Opportunity Council (The Council) helps address immediate and crisis-related basic needs such as food, emergency shelter, and eviction prevention. The Council also helps develop self-sufficiency and resiliency within our community by delivering early childhood education, home weatherization, and energy conservation education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community Services (CS), Community Programs, Housing Services, and Energy Assistance - A multi-faceted program dedicated to serving our most vulnerable communities. CS strives to serve those in need wherever they are. In 2024 staff and volunteers prepared and served over 10,000 meals to people in need. Over 190 people gained job skills and work experience through our Employment Services programs. Our Resource Centers in three counties responded to over 16,500 requests for services and information. We secured housing for households experiencing homelessness or at risk of homelessness through permanent supportive housing, temporary housing, rental assistance, and eviction prevention services. Tenant enrichment services and other programs also provide benefit to the communities we serve. Over 1400 households received case management and/or rental assistance services through our housing programs. We provided over 13,000 payments for energy bills on behalf of households in need so they did not have to choose between paying for energy or other basic services.
$31,541,159 spentof which $19,660,471 as grants$1,366,245 earned by the program58% of program spendingEarly Learning and Family Services (ELAFS) - one of Opportunity Council's largest departments - is comprised of multiple programs for pregnant people and households with children ages birth to five years and beyond. Specific programs include, but are not limited to: Head Start and ECEAP (Washington State's Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program) center-based preschool classrooms for children ages three through five years and their families, Early Head Start home visit-based program for prenatal through age three, Early Support for Infants and Toddlers (ESIT) home visit-based program for children with special needs and their families, and our Quality Child Care (QCC) division, which includes regional work supporting child care providers, infant/toddler mental health, and the Center for Retention and Expansion of Child Care (C-RECC). In Whatcom County, ELAFS continues to be a central player in the Single-Entry Access to Services (SEAS) and Help Me Grow collaborations aimed at getting every local child off to a strong start. Program year 2024-25 saw 309 children enrolled in our Head Start and ECEAP preschool classrooms, and 99 EHS children and their highly-impacted…
$15,487,957 spentof which $2,278,289 as grants$274,962 earned by the program28% of program spendingWeatherization and Home Repair Services - By servicing existing homes, the home improvement program preserves vital housing units (a key component of ensuring affordable housing), while also improving community health, safety, and climate resiliency. We weatherized 120 houses so families could reduce their annual energy use and expenses, and rehabilitated 72 additional homes and 17 furnace repair projects to improve durability, indoor air quality, and ensure home safety.
$4,647,633 spent$896,481 earned by the program9% of program spendingHousing Enterprise - Opportunity Council has formed a number of separate state limited liability corporations (LLCs) for the purpose of providing certain management and other services to separate entities in which the LLCs are either a noncontrolling member or general partner. The sole member of these LLCs is Opportunity Council. Opportunity Council's Building Performance Center (BPC) provides technical training, quality assurance services, and professional consultations that promote safe, healthy, durable, and energy efficient buildings. In 2024, the BPC trainings and in-home services provided training for over 700 people throughout Washington state and beyond. The Community Energy Challenge, CEC, is a community energy efficiency program designed to address the typical barriers to efficiency upgrades for homeowners and commercial building owners and encourage comprehensive EE retrofits that result in substantial savings. In 2024, CEC assisted 95 households in improving energy efficiency in their buildings.
$2,770,698 spentof which $327,267 as grants$2,980,564 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $54,447,447.
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 2023 to 2024, from $33M to $40M (+22%).
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 71% · 2018 66% · 2019 68% · 2020 71% · 2021 83% · 2022 88% · 2023 79% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Greg Winter
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $650k → $885k.
10 of 59 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 59 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
OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
81% 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 OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 61% · 2019 31% · 2020 23% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 25% — 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
45% of OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
90% of OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,289 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,289 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $86.7M on record — $70.8M federal, $15.9M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$37.3M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$17.4M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$15.9M
- Corporation for National and Community Service$225k
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-PROFIT ORG$12.2M
- DISTRIBUTION TO NON-GOVERNMENTS$3.8M
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 OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL
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 Washington
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
Part of a family of 30 related entities
- CreateHousing LLC · disregarded
- 22 North Manager LLC · disregarded
- OC Housing Partners I LLC · disregarded
- CreateHousing Riverview LLC · disregarded
- CreateHousing Ravenswood LLC · disregarded
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: 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 OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL?
- OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL (Washington) receives grants from 59 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,911,394 to it, the largest being WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,081,631). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 59 organizations giving $7,911,394 in grants to OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL?
- WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,081,631 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 59 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