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· Public charity
OPERATION CALIFORNIA INC
It helps communities to alleviate the effects of disasters, disease and endemic poverty throughout the world by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction and development aid.
$2.1M
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
4
Communities
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of OPERATION CALIFORNIA INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2021
covid
2022
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2023
russian invasioninvasion civilian
2024
religiousmembersfiremauifoodconflict
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
- BROOK OF HOPE$100,000
- KARAM FOUNDATION$50,000
- MORE PREPARED LLC$36,020
- HEAL PALESTINE$10,000
- MAUI FOOD BANK$10,000
- HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
- HOMELESS HEALTHCARE$7,500
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $185k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 39% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 12 repeat orgs$762k to everyone else
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
12
32
Total granted
$1.2M
$689k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+44%
+461%
Still filing today
42%
25%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther
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
- OTON THE MOVE2× · 2018–2020 · $112k · revenue +12%
- AFALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL CO2× · 2018–2019 · $40k · revenue +505%
- SASOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH2× · 2018–2019 · $35k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & E NCone grant, 2019 · $80k
- GSGOOD SHEPHERD CENTERone grant, 2019 · $76k
- HAHELP AGEone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Central California Food Bank
Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.
Food & Nutrition
2
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank
The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…
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3
La Clinica De La Raza Inc
Comprehensive medical services to individuals in need, regardless of race, age, or ability to pay.
Health
4
California Emergency Foodlink
Provide emergency food assistance to emergency feeding organizations throughout california and work with various agencies to attack the issue of poverty.
Unclassified
5
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
Leading the fight to end hunger, in partnership with our cmty. and in svcs. of our neighbors in need.
Food & Nutrition
6
United Food Bank
Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
Food & Nutrition
7
Community Action Partnership of
To provide services to the low income population in san bernardino county which are designed to have a measurable impact on the causes of poverty
Human Services
8
La Comunidad Inc
Legal, immigration and community organizing
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9
Altamed Health Services Corporation
See schedule o : to eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic and underserved communities in…
Health
10
Community Partners International
Empower vulnerable communities in asia to thrive through equitable access to essential health, humanitarian, and sustainable development services.
Human Services
11
El Concilio California
Empowering diverse communities in california's central valley.
Human Services
12
California Forward
California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.
Public Benefit
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Proyecto Del Barrio Inc and the most unlike its peers is Flamboyan Foundation 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.
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%1/44
the rest of the field
11%
206,163/1,819,521
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.
05the grantee network
40 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
31/40
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$1,074,161International$470,000Human Services$184,500Philanthropy$116,250Crime & Legal$50,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Housing & Shelter$20,000
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 BROOK OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELP AGE ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL CO ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ONSLOW COMMUNITY OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DIAPER BANK ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FLAMBOYAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEAL PALESTINE ↗
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.
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA27.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · United Way of the Wine Country · Marin Community Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities · McNabb Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sempra Foundation
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 organisation OPERATION CALIFORNIA INC 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BROOK OF HOPE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 815017718 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BROOK OF HOPE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 85% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Operation California Inc?
Find your warmest path to Operation California Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines