Minnesota · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS
OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,689,488 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($946,392). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $29M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $19M
What Opportunity Partners does
Mission
Mission: together we advance the quality of life for people with disabilities. Vision: people of all abilities thrive in the world. Values: impact- generate solutions that make a difference. Choice - create opportunities for people to lead self-directed lives. Heart- promote the dignity and worth of each other. Partnership - facilitate change through relationships, collaboration and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Vocational/employment services: founded in 1953 by visionary parents who wanted a better life for their teenage children with disabilities, Opportunity Partners has always focused on the abilities of people. At a time when many people with disabilities were institutionalized, the organization provided a place where people could learn job skills and experience the sense of pride that comes from earning a paycheck. In 1959, Opportunity Partners became the first service provider in the twin cities to support people with disabilities to find jobs with employers in the community. In 2024, Opportunity Partners served 1024 people with disabilities at dozens of job sites, residences and community settings throughout the twin cities, with 242 individuals enrolled in multiple programs. Opportunity Partners provides support to a wide range of individuals - including young adults with cerebral palsy, adults recovering from brain injury, and adults of all ages with down syndrome. No matter what the challenge is, our services help people with disabilities to lead more rewarding and meaningful lives. Opportunity Partners provides enrichment opportunities to help people acquire skills for…
$16,391,529 spent$17,212,307 earned by the program64% of program spendingResidential services: Opportunity Partners began offering residential services to people with disabilities in the early 1970s, assisting people to live as independently as possible while providing staff support as needed. Today, Opportunity Partners offers a continuum of residential services, ranging from group homes (which provide the highest level of support) to in-home services (which support people in their own homes). Satisfaction surveys and licensing reviews promote Opportunity Partners' attention to quality in services and property management. 2024 residential milestones: people supported in residential services: 239 people living in group homes: 74 individuals living in homebase apartments: 30 living independently with support in their own homes: 135
$9,305,593 spent$10,550,830 earned by the program36% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,697,122.
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 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $31M (+16%).
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: 2020 4% · 2021 3% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Ann Yekaldo
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $141k → $369k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 PARTNERS’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
OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 PARTNERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 38% · 2019 36% · 2020 29% · 2021 41% · 2022 40% · 2023 40% — 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
68% of OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
69% of OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS'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 $830k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 PARTNERS receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2.7M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 441 employment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
75%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Op Social Enterprises LLC · disregarded
- Op Properties LLC · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS: 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 PARTNERS?
- OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS (Minnesota) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,689,488 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($946,392). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $2,689,488 in grants to OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $946,392 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITY PARTNERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 28 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