· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $525,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,031,410 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,506,410 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $195k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT | $250,000 |
| ALL HANDS AND HEARTS | $145,000 |
| SBP | $50,000 |
| FARM SHARE | $30,000 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA | $30,000 |
| BELOVED ASHEVILLE | $10,000 |
| MANNA FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
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, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 — $2.4M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: COMMUNITY HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY RELIEF FOR UKRAINE CRISIS · TO PROVIDE FLOOD RESPONSE TO KAZAKHISTAN
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Operation California Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +83% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- ASAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC3× · 2022–2025 · $270k · revenue +83%
- OTON THE MOVE2× · 2018–2020 · $112k · revenue +19%
HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC3× · 2018–2020 · $90k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- FBFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL & E NCone grant, 2019 · $80k
- GSGood Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Incone grant, 2019 · $76k · revenue +21%
- HUHELPAGE USA INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -59%
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.
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…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
California association of food banks (cafb) is a non-profit public benefit corporation located in oakland, california. together with its 41-member foodbanks, cafb is the largest charitable hunger-relief and anti-hunger leader in the state.…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
The jacobs & cushman san diego food bank is the largest hunger-relief organization in san diego county. its mission is to provide nutritious food to people in need, advocate for the hungry, and educate the public about hunger-related…
Hunger action los angeles ends hunger and promotes healthy eating through advocacy, education, and appropriate direct service. the chief program area currently is the market match prgram operated by hala at 22 farmers markets in la county…
Provide emergency food assistance to emergency feeding organizations throughout california and work with various agencies to attack the issue of poverty.
Working in partnership with san bernardino county communities to support low-income residents in achieving self-sufficiency.
Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young & Healthy 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.
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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
56 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.
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 Brook of Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE MOVE ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Ministries of Wilmington Inc ↗
- Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELPAGE USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE ST BERNARD PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NourishNC Inc ↗
- Who funds ONSLOW COMMUNITY OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds MIAMI DIAPER BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEST HOPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR A NEW ECONOMY INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS TEXAS ↗
- Who funds FLAMBOYAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Community Foundation · Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc · Direct Relief · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · One Warm Coat · East Bay Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Baby2baby · Marin Community Foundation · Tides 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 organization 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.
- 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.