Opportunity 180
Las Vegas, NV · EIN 61-1753910. Reported 84 grants totalling $35.6M to 46 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Opportunity 180, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B90) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 39% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 70% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $131,500. Half of what it reported fell between $50,000 and $414,184; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $13.8M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
1 of those grants was non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $61,120 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equitable Facilities Fund Inc | New York, NY | $13.8M | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lemnis | Beaverton, OR | $1,710,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Square Panda Inc | Sunnyvale, CA | $1,650,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Teach Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV | $1,580,516 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Battle Born Academy Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $1,527,535 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Civica Nevada | N Las Vegas, NV | $1,465,629 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sage Collegiate Pcs | Las Vegas, NV | $1,263,181 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Southern Nevada Trades High School | Las Vegas, NV | $1,234,937 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Beacon Academy of Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $1,155,405 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Piloted Schools of Nevada Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $1,032,506 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pinecrest Academy of Northern Nevada | Sparks, NV | $971,571 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| POWER2PARENT Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $820,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Gooden Foundation Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $805,164 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Clv Strong Start Academy Elementary Schools Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $740,612 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rooted School | New Orleans, LA | $592,981 | 3 | 2 | 2023 |
| Eagle Charter Schools of Nevada | Las Vegas, NV | $581,546 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tntp Inc | New York, NY | $570,325 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Young Womens Leadership Academy of Las Vegas | Las Vegas, NV | $497,978 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Vegas Vista Academy | Las Vegas, NV | $466,864 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Do & Be Arts Academy of Excellence | N Las Vegas, NV | $396,238 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Explore Academy Las Vegas | N Las Vegas, NV | $333,020 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Las Vegas Preparatory | Las Vegas, NV | $275,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Elko Institute for Academic Achievement | Elko, NV | $236,137 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nevada State High School | Las Vegas, NV | $235,566 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Parent Leadership Team of Nevada | N Las Vegas, NV | $211,505 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Girls Athletic Leadership School of Lv | Las Vegas, NV | $204,223 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Citizens of the World Charter Schools | Los Angeles, CA | $194,374 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Democracy Prep Agassi Campus | Las Vegas, NV | $165,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Battle Born Kids Matter Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of New Jersey | Morristown, NJ | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Las Vegas Collegiate | Las Vegas, NV | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jobs for Nevadas Graduates Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $95,622 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Nevada Rise Academy Inc | Henderson, NV | $84,746 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Red Hook Management | Las Vegas, NV | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Discovery Charter School | San Jose, CA | $62,659 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nevada Community Foundation Inc | Las Vegas, NV | $61,514 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Democracy Prep Public Schools | New York, NY | $61,120 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Futuro Academy Incorporated | Las Vegas, NV | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Teach Plus Incorporated | Boston, MA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Diverse Charter Schools Coalition Inc | New York, NY | $26,542 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Larchmont Schools | Los Angeles, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City of Henderson | Henderson, NV | $23,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rise Up Nevada | N Las Vegas, NV | $11,080 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Bes Inc | Boston, MA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Pioneer Technology and Arts Academy of Colorado | Dallas, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Education Board Partners | Washington, DC | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
27 of 46 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Northwest Evaluation Association
PLANNING GRANT AND CSP GRANT - The Gooden Foundation Inc
PROGRAM AND PLANNING GRANT - Democracy Prep at the Agassi Campus
HIGH QUALITY TEACHER RECRUITMENT AND RETNETION - Nevada Rise Academy Charter School
GENERAL AND PROGRAM GRANT
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 7 | $2,044,200 | $61,120 |
| 2021 | 17 | $5,404,565 | $166,886 |
| 2022 | 31 | $7,965,802 | $144,643 |
| 2023 | 29 | $20.2M | $143,140 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
47% of its giving went to organizations in Nevada. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $131,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Nevada.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Opportunity 180's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 26 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 11035 Lavender Hill Dr Ste 160-180, Las Vegas, NV, 89135.
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