Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE
OPPORTUNITY HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,554,690 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ($2,546,636). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.4M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $5.6M
- Net assets
- $8.4M
What Opportunity House does
Mission
Opportunity House empowers individuals to improve their lives. We provide security stability, safety, and community to our clients.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Resale and reuse services: with the affiliations and support of the - st. Vincent depaul society of lane county, oregon, and the cascade alliance, the oprganization opened its resale and reuse services. Donations bins were placed throughout berks county and a retail business was established. In july 2015, the organization opened a retail thrift store to help sustain the agency and provide jobs.
$2,115,099 spent$997,758 earned by the program27% of program spendingShelter: since 1984, the shelter at our main campus has been operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to meet the immediate physical needs of the homeless while also offering intensive counseling, goal-planning, life-skills education, community service, money management training, after-care services, addiction awareness, parenting, self-esteem, and nutrition and health education. In the current fiscal year, the shelter served an average of 90 homeless men, women, and children each evening. In 2024, Opportunity House opened a second homeless shelter in the city of pottstown, serving 120 homeless men and women daily.
$2,473,564 spent$782,457 earned by the program32% of program spendingLearning centers: since 1996, the second street learning center has provided parents who work with the first childcare center to be recognized by the state. Care is provided on-site for over 100 children per day who live at the shelter and in the community. The children range from infancy through school-age including those with special needs. The learning center also meets transportation needs to and from all reading elementary and middle schools. In the current fiscal year, the center served 6 infants, 23 toddlers, 65 preschoolers/pre-k and 73 school age children each day. In the fall of 2025, Opportunity House opened a second location, the patton avenue learning center, which serves the same purpose and offers care to 64 children daily, ages 6 month to 5 years old.
$1,630,828 spent$1,153,017 earned by the program21% of program spendingHousing: since 1998, the supportive housing program has provided permanent housing for disabled individuals and families who have successfully completed the shelter programs, but are in need of additional support before they can succesfully move back into the community. Opportunity House's portfolio of housing includes 71 units (transitional and permanent) and includes more than 100 residents.
$948,057 spent12% of program spendingPre-k second street learning center received a grant from the pa - department of education to operate a pre-k count program for up to 40 low income children. Aged 3 - 5 with the goal of enhancing their academic skills in preparation of entering kindergarten. In 2025, we expanded the program to include an additional 20 children, totaling 60 current participants.
$622,374 spent8% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,789,922.
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 2022 to 2023, from $6.8M to $8.4M (+23%).
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 11% · 2018 12% · 2019 20% · 2020 18% · 2021 24% · 2022 27% · 2023 33% · 2024 25% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
67% of OPPORTUNITY HOUSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Alyssa Bushkie
COO; CEO as of july '25
Board chair
Rebecca Iannelli
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $358k → $586k.
12 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 HOUSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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 HOUSE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 HOUSE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 62% · 2019 51% · 2020 44% · 2021 48% · 2022 41% · 2023 47% — 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
49% of OPPORTUNITY HOUSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
91% of OPPORTUNITY HOUSE's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $924k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 HOUSE's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 25 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPPORTUNITY HOUSE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.0M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$8.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.0M
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 HOUSE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPPORTUNITY HOUSE: 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 HOUSE?
- OPPORTUNITY HOUSE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,554,690 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC ($2,546,636). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITY HOUSE have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $5,554,690 in grants to OPPORTUNITY HOUSE, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITY HOUSE?
- UNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,546,636 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITY HOUSE 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 64 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