California · Nonprofit
THE OPPORTUNITY FUND
THE OPPORTUNITY FUND (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,082,140 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,323,151). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Joseph Drown Foundationshared funderslocal
- Int'L Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees M P T a & Aportfolio match
- For Our Future Action Fundportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $44k → $10k.
2 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 THE OPPORTUNITY FUND’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
THE OPPORTUNITY FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 91% · 2019 76% · 2020 35% · 2021 88% · 2022 53% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
24% of THE OPPORTUNITY FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
THE OPPORTUNITY FUND draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $55k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 24 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Joseph Drown Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 61 organizations that share your funders · funds 210 organizations near you
- Int'L Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees M P T a & Aportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- For Our Future Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local No 75portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobs with Justice Education Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jobs with Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Steel Paper and Forestry Rubber Manufacturing Energy Alliedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Communications Workers of America Afl-Cio Clcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our Children Our Futureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Nurses Unitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Nurses Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like THE OPPORTUNITY FUND
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE OPPORTUNITY FUND: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY FUND?
- THE OPPORTUNITY FUND (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,082,140 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($3,323,151). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OPPORTUNITY FUND have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $7,082,140 in grants to THE OPPORTUNITY FUND, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OPPORTUNITY FUND?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,323,151 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OPPORTUNITY FUND find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 24funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing