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OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SCHOOLS INC

EIN 85-3143325 WICHITA, KS

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Revenue 2024
$7,684,209
Expenses 2024
$8,006,411

Program services were 95.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B24
Classification
2000
Street
1625 N WATERFRONT PKWY STE 100

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 100). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO SUPPORT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT, AND OPERATE THREE SCHOOLS THAT DELIVER A HIGH QUALITY EARLY LEARNING EXPERIENCE TO CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY, PROVIDING THEM THE TOOLS NEEDED FOR EMOTIONAL, ACADEMIC AND LIFELONG SUCCESS

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO SUPPORT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT, AND OPERATE THREE SCHOOLS THAT DELIVER A HIGH QUALITY EARLY LEARNING EXPERIENCE TO CHILDREN LIVING IN POVERTY AND AT RISK, PROVIDING THEM WITH THE TOOLS NEEDED FOR EMOTIONAL, ACADEMIC AND LIFELONG SUCCESS

  • THE OPPORTUNITY PROJECT SCHOOLS, INC OPERATES THREE SCHOOLS WHICH SUPPORT EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT GOALS. THE THREE SCHOOLS COMBINED SERVED APPROXIMATELY 500 STUDENTS PER MONTH DURING THE LAST SCHOOL YEAR.

    Expenses $7,651,512 · Grants $1,500 · Revenue $4,417,658

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Barry Downing

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5
  • Paula Downing

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Lisa Wright

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Riley Jackson

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Heather Vandever

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $7,684,209
    Expenses
    $8,006,411
    Contributions
    $2,939,689
    Grants paid
    $1,500
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $7,636,277
    Expenses
    $7,507,631
    Contributions
    $2,902,239
    Grants paid
    $97,500
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $8,124,851
    Expenses
    $7,022,075
    Contributions
    $3,125,979
    Grants paid
    $110,500

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,693,590
    Expenses
    $3,417,627
    Assets (EOY)
    $17,232,532

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • TOP SCHOOL NORTH LLC

    OPERATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL · KS · income $2,235,777 · assets $238,132

  • TOP SCHOOL SOUTH LLC

    OPERATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL · KS · income $2,364,343 · assets $221,221

  • TOP SCHOOL NORTHWEST LLC

    OPERATION OF EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL · KS · income $2,413,232 · assets $101,310

  • TOP PROPERTIES NORTH LLC

    HOLDING COMPANY FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES · KS · assets $1,883,231

  • TOP PROPERTIES SOUTH LLC

    HOLDING COMPANY FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES · KS · assets $2,068,647

  • TOP PROPERTIES NORTHWEST LLC

    HOLDING COMPANY FOR SCHOOL FACILITIES · KS · assets $1,902,965

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.