California · Nonprofit
THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE
THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,681,592 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($5,801,592). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $776k
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $113k
What The Opportunity Institute does
Mission
The Opportunity Institute is a non-profit organization that promotes social mobility and equity by improving outcomes from early childhood through early career. We focus on education, which plays a critical role in opening opportunities, and the related social policies that make true opportunity possible.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Whole child equity: advancing practices and policies to ensure all students benefit from strategies and structures that reflect science, evidence, and a "whole child" approach. Building a broad, collaborative, multi-sector community with a shared vision of educational equity and excellence will enable communities to develop and implement the interventions and services to help students get and stay on track.
$330,511 spent34% of program spendingResource equity: advocating for adequate and sustained funding for public schools and the equitable allocation of educational resources, with higher-need schools and districts getting their fair share.
$354,750 spent37% of program spendingEquity indicators: supporting the use of the monitoring educational equity framework developed by the national academies of sciences, engineering, and medicine (nas) to analyze disparities, as well as the development of state-based equity indicator systems and a federal equity indicator system.adolescent learning and development project: is a highly focused effort to utilize a "whole child" approach to address the unique developmental needs of adolescents and youth. We work to identify the practice changes that need to happen, and the policy supports that will accelerate the institutional changes required so changes are both sustainable and transformative at scale.
$282,475 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $967,736.
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 2019 to 2020, from $3.7M to $1.4M (−61%).
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: 2019 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Maria Echaveste
President/CEO
Board chair
Laura Dandrea Tyson
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 narrowed from 14 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $10M → $1.1M.
6 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 INSTITUTE’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 INSTITUTE 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
44% 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 THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 50% · 2019 63% · 2020 50% · 2021 48% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% — 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
12% of THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
59% of THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.0M 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.
Against its field
THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE's revenue fell 92% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- FEDERAL$2k
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 THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE: 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 THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE?
- THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,681,592 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($5,801,592). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $20,681,592 in grants to THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,801,592 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE OPPORTUNITY INSTITUTE 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 21 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