· Public charity
Operation Celebration
To perform religious, charitable & educational activities
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEND ME OUT INC | $15,000 |
| UNDUE MEDICAL DEBT | $12,400 |
| WATOTO CHILD CARE MINISTRY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 23% of Operation Celebration’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 22% of the giving stays in TX; by stated purpose, 41%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +259% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TFTHE FIRST ASSEMBLY OF GOD OF THE CITY OF PHOENIX2× · 2020–2022 · $200k
- WCWinners Circle International Inc5× · 2018–2023 · $175k · revenue +259%
- MLMOSAIC LA4× · 2017–2021 · $120k
Funded once
- DCDREAM CENTER FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +55%
- MIMessenger International Incone grant, 2018 · $26k
- PPEACEMAKERSone grant, 2017 · $25k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Religious
Bring the message of God's love, acceptance and
Providing shelter for the homeless
To seek to proclaim the name of Jesus Christ, to promote Christian principles and the spiritual and physical well being of the world. Major programs include: Orphan ministries, including building orphanages, feeding and educating children,…
Religious Purposes
Ted Shuttlesworth Evangelistic Association spreads the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ through teaching and the ministry of the gifts of the Holy Spirit including healing and deliverance.
Reaching Out To The Nations' mission is to both preach and demonstrate the love of Go through its projects and programs which include preaching, food distribution, widow and orphan assistance and leadership training.
Reconciliaton Ministries Intl. is a Christian evangelical organization preaching and teaching the Word of God in over 60 countries. The ministry equips and encourages Christians everywhere to be saved, healed, and delivered according to…
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Winners Circle International Inc ↗
- Who funds DREAM CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Messenger International Inc ↗
- Who funds Dance Revolution Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ORPHANS HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds SEND ME OUT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE STONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROEVER EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds World Embrace Inc ↗
- Who funds WATOTO CHILD CARE MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Forgiven Felons Inc ↗
- Who funds FISCHER FAMILY MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRING THE LIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Operation Celebration funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Operation Celebration. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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