Kentucky · Nonprofit
OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING
OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING (Kentucky) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,410 to it, the largest being Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc ($26,393). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $93k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Opportunity Workshop of Lexington Inc Dba Opportunity for Work & Learning does
Mission
Owl partners within communities to educate and equip individuals with barriers to employment to reach their vocational goals.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Vocational services for individuals with disabilities to obtain required skills so he/she can be placed in remunerative employment. In fye 6/30/22 the organization served individuals with 30 evaluations and 21 assessments, placed 35 individuals in employment and had 16 successful completions.
$1,089,844 spent$2,730,063 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,089,844.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $3.4M to $5.2M (+53%).
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: 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Walter Higgins
President/CEO
Board chair
Sarah Mattingly
Chair
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $12k → $8k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING’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 WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% 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
65% 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 WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 92% · 2022 28% · 2023 94% — 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
17% of OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 20% 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
64% of OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $22k 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.
Organizations like OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING
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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
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 1 related entity
- Paddock Development Group · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING?
- OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING (Kentucky) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $93,410 to it, the largest being Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc ($26,393). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $93,410 in grants to OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING?
- Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc is the largest funder on record, with $26,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPPORTUNITY WORKSHOP OF LEXINGTON INC DBA OPPORTUNITY FOR WORK & LEARNING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 10 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