Illinois · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED (Illinois) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,758 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($292,179). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.4M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $338k
What Opportunity Knocks Incorporated does
Mission
Opportunity Knocks is dedicated to enriching life and community. We exist to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities as they live, work, learn, grow and connect within their community. We believe in a dynamic, person-centered, community-based approach to programming that engages the voice of all Warriors, thrives on interdependent connections, encourages exploration, centers on holistic wellness and fostering healthy relationships.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
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$1,071,492 spent100% of program spendingNEXT PHASE- Next Phase encompasses both in person and virtual programming for all of participants focusing on building life skills, health and wellness, community connections and vocational skills for participants that are 22 and up; as well as focussing on after social recreational programs geared towards participants that are 14 and up.
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,071,492.
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 2019 to 2020, from $299k to $541k (+81%).
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 3% · 2018 7% · 2019 7% · 2020 8% · 2021 5% · 2022 10% · 2023 10% · 2024 11% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Board chair
Karen Hunter
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $62k → $177k.
14 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 KNOCKS INCORPORATED’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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 KNOCKS INCORPORATED has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
43% 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 KNOCKS INCORPORATED.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 26% · 2019 22% · 2020 20% · 2021 32% · 2022 23% · 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
32% of OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
86% of OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $520k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 KNOCKS INCORPORATED's funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED?
- OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED (Illinois) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,548,758 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($292,179). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $1,548,758 in grants to OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $292,179 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS INCORPORATED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 53 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