· Public charity
Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation
Bring help and hope in the united states and around the world through programs that include hunger relief, medical care, clean water, child development and disaster relief.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $416,598 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $49,271,094 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,854,496 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $142k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $267k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OBDRS | $217,345 |
| One Generation Away | $50,000 |
| Youth With a Mission Asheville Inc | $31,310 |
| Mercury One | $25,000 |
| Virginia Symphony | $25,000 |
| Harvest Christian Fellowship | $20,000 |
| Bel Air Presbyterian Church | $19,710 |
| Restoration Fellowship Church | $10,580 |
| Gift of Life International Inc | $10,153 |
| Living Waters Family Worshp | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $231k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $13M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $5.9M to organizations and $6.7M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Relief
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Relief
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Relief
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Relief · Clean Water
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Within Ukraine · Ukrainian Refugee Relief · Child Development in Armenia
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Relief
Stated purpose: Humanitarian
Stated purpose: Israel Relief · Iraq Refugee Relief · Medical Clinic in Jordan
Stated purpose: Humanitarian Relief
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- OBOperation Blessing Disaster Relief Services Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +207% · 100% of their budget
- FCFULLER CENTER DISASTER REBUILDERS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $145k · revenue +66%
- MMIRACLEFEET3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +95%
Funded once
- FLFamily Life Center Incone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue +7%
- OIOCRACOKE INTERFAITH RELIEF & RECOVERY TEAMone grant, 2021 · $105k · revenue -99%
- UWUnited Way of South Hampton Roadsone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -32%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide food, shelter, clothing, medical assistance and other immediate need to the thousands of needy and homeless people living in our area.
We are a church, food bank, outreach that ministers the love of Jesus to our city and the surrounding cities by preaching and teaching the word of God every Sunday. We also minister to anyone with a food need weekly through our food bank.…
Non profit ministry that seeks to improve the community through providing food, and other services for humanity
Improving the quality of life of those in need through food, knowledge and the word of god.
The purpose of this company is to provide food to homeless and indigent families in our area.
Deliver The Difference is a humanitarian hunger relief organizations. We believe it is wrong that children go to bed hungry and not knowing where their next meal will come from. We believe it is wrong that seniors have to decided whether…
Church, religious
mobile food pantry
Bread of Refuge is a food pantry that distributes over 1600 banana boxes of food every month to families in need. We also feed 75-to-100 homeless people every week.
Community outreach and church services
Hope And Help Center. Hope by teaching the Bible, focusing on Jesus Christ. Help by working with community partners to provide services to our members and community residents.
To provide Christian, faith-based social assistance services which address the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of individuals and families in crisis.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Chefs Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 110 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Operation Blessing Disaster Relief Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Family Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc ↗
- Who funds FULLER CENTER DISASTER REBUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds OCRACOKE INTERFAITH RELIEF & RECOVERY TEAM ↗
- Who funds United Way of South Hampton Roads ↗
- Who funds FARM SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE ↗
- Who funds Oroville Hope Center ↗
- Who funds MIRACLEFEET ↗
- Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
- Who funds GRACE JONES COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds Mercy Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE CHURCH OF HOUMA & ASSOCIAT ↗
- Who funds Somebody Cares Tampa Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFESONG FOR ORPHANS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION ASHEVILLE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Florida Keys · North Valley Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Somebody Cares America Inc · Making Change · Church World Service Inc · Good360 · Feed the Children Inc · The Society of St Andrew Inc · World Vision Inc · Samaritan's Purse · Share Our Strength
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Star of the Sea Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Farm Share Inc — 6% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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