Connecticut · Nonprofit
OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC
OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,968,012 to it, the largest being CAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC ($10,848,326). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $34M
- Net assets
- $949k
What Our Piece of the Pie Inc does
Mission
Our piece of the pie, inc. (opp) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1975 dedicated to empowering youth with the key competencies needed to overcome barriers and succeed in education and employment. Opp's unique model is centered around the personal and consistent relationship developed between each youth and a caring, committed and proactive adult staff member. That relationship helps participants identify and overcome barriers, access programs within best practices in youth development, workforce readiness, and academics, and to achieve the goals of high school graduation, a college degree and/or vocational certification and rewarding post-education employment. Last year, opp worked with over 1000 youth throughout our programs, supporting them on their path to economic independence. For more information, please visit www.opp.org.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development - youth developments services focus on the building of healthy habits and skills that prepare youth to demonstrate and achieve competence, confidence, and connections to the community. Using cognitive behavioral support tools, skill acquisition strategies aimed at building resilience and reducing risk factors, including barrier identification and reduction, strengthening self-esteem and confidence while supporting youth when problems arise, connecting them to other support services, and improving positive networks through connecting with two or more adults in the community.
$1,209,039 spent16% of program spendingEmployment - workforce readiness programs assist youth with opportunities to experience and develop important work readiness skills for long term employment. Skills building focused on career competency development training (soft skills, resume writing, job shadowing, service learning, entrepreneurial and business skills, subsidized/un-subsidized internships, employment placement, and employment retention.embedded are also financial capability services to help youth learn about banking, savings, credit, managing debt, and budgeting. Most importantly, youth have real-time access to a continuum of developmental work readiness experiences that include hands-on "work-to-learn" youth businesses in arts, digital media, carpentry, allied health, manufacturing, and other post-secondary credentialed employment opportunities. All of which offer youth the opportunity to learn occupational skills while building their resume.
$4,541,435 spent60% of program spendingEducation - education services are provided through district-aligned, diploma granting public school partnerships that include opportunity academy and the learning academy bloomfield. Additional academic services and supports are provided targeting access to industry recognized credentials, and post-secondary bridging. The focus is supporting academic pathways that lead to educational achievement diploma/ged attainment and post-secondary credentialing and retention.
$1,391,543 spent18% of program spendingData and accountability opp incorporates best practices and uses real-time, integrated, youth-level data to ensure service quality and progression and agency-wide accountability for results. Data and information is accessible to staff and stakeholders for analysis supporting improved services, operations, policies and outcomes for youth in hartford. As a learning organization, opp also participates in various local, state, and national data collaboratives.
$400,490 spent5% of program spendingBehavioral health - opp has long recognized the connection between the impact of trauma, mental health and youth success. The covid pandemic disruptions have had profound impact on youth and experts have proclaimed that youth mental health is a public health crisis. Opp'sexperience shows that while services exist within the community, youth face significant obstacles to accessing appropriate, culturally-competent and effective mental health supports including logistical and financial barriers, lack of trained empathetic counselors or distrust of the unknown. Behavioral health provides opp the ability to refer youth to relationship and youth centered opp staff with appropriate clinical training within the agency will provide easier access to these needed services.
$51,747 spent1% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,594,254.
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 2018 to 2019, from $7.4M to $3.2M (−56%).
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 47% · 2018 59% · 2019 60% · 2020 51% · 2021 52% · 2022 54% · 2023 61% · 2024 54% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (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.
Chief executive
Hector Rivera
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Rashani Swaby
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $7.3M.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 32% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 54% · 2019 34% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 41% — 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
53% of OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
83% of OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 20 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $13.1M on record — $3.5M federal, $9.6M state.
- Department of Labor$2.0M
- Department of Justice$767k
- Department of Education$750k
- State Aid Grants$7.2M
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$2.2M
- Management Consultant Services$150k
- Non-Employee Reimbursements$1k
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 OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: 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 OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC?
- OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,968,012 to it, the largest being CAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC ($10,848,326). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $33,968,012 in grants to OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC?
- CAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,848,326 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 51 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