Arizona · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION
OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,328 to it, the largest being ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC ($71,339). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $207k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $220k
- Net assets
- $322k
What Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation does
Mission
The Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation (otef) educates and invests in people and organizations that create hope. Our programs include education for small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs, programs to support students in exploring future careers, and our azadvances initiative which supports the creation and commercialization of arizona-based health innovations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Volunteers from the arizona bioindustry association provided 1:1 mentoring sessions to small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Our student discovery zone program (part of our azadvances talent program) provided high school and university students the opportunity to connect with industry leaders and showcase their research projects. As part of this program, merit-based scholarship prizes were competitively awarded. Two university students were employed as part time student interns in 2025 for 3 months each. The azadvances capital program made no investments into early stage life science companies in 2025. Our current mission related investment portfolio includes three investments from 2023. These equities will be held by otef and the future investment proceeds remain with otef. On dec 29, 2022, the arizona state board of investment approved a contract with the arizona state treasurer's office (asto) for otef to receive ongoing distributions from the arizona health innovation trust fund to support its charitable purpose and to perform specified services as set forth in a.r.s. 41-177. The first distributions from asto will begin in 2027. $75,000 in support was provided from…
$118,803 spentof which $15,000 as grants$93,970 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $118,803.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2024 to 2025, from $250k to $322k (+29%).
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: 2025 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 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
Joan Koerber-Walker Mba
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $6k → $37k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION’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 THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 42% · 2021 100% · 2022 46% · 2023 31% — 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
25% of OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 50% 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
65% of OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Arizona funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION
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 Arizona
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
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION?
- OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $220,328 to it, the largest being ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC ($71,339). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $220,328 in grants to OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION?
- ARIZONA BIOINDUSTRY ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,339 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITY THROUGH ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 8 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