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Operation JOY Foundation at a glance

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Operation JOY Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Religion$123kHuman Services$122kCrime & Legal$28kInternational$23kHealth$11kFood & Nutrition$1k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$715k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANYON DEL ORO BIBLE CHURCH$50,000
ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%COMBAT CONTROL FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $34k → 8%AMBASSADORS OF COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC: $3k → 9%CHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC: $42k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Child Crisis Arizona

To provide children and youth in arizona a safe environment, free from abuse and neglect, by creating strong and successful families.

Crime & Legal
2
Aerial Recovery

Aerial recovery's mission is to save lives and stop evil. through the creation and deployment of humanitarian special operators, aerial recovery brings together selected veterans, first responders, and mission-qualified civilians who,…

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3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Compassion Ministries
Religion
5
Childsafe Colorado Inc

Mission: our mission is to break the cycle and heal the childhood trauma resulting from abuse and neglect with specialized treatment, education and community outreach. we believe in a comprehensive, community-based approach to the problem…

Crime & Legal
6
Child Protection Center Inc

The mission of the child protection center, inc. is the prevention, intervention and treatment of child abuse. we envision a community where children are safe from abuse and free to thrive. to successfully address the issue of child abuse,…

Crime & Legal
7
Church World Service Inc

Church world service, inc. is a private, voluntary faith-based organization with 37 member communions that transformscommunities around the globe through just and sustainable responses to hunger, poverty, displacement and disaster.

International
8
Hope's Promise Inc

To strengthen families through ethical, christ-centered foster care, adoption, and global orphan care.

Human Services
9
Caring for Kids Inc

Caring for kids, inc. (cfk) is a private, non-profit, full-service adoption and foster care agency operating since 1995. cfk specializes in diverse and inclusive birth parent, foster care, adoption and behavioral health services. our…

Human Services
10
Childrens Advocacy Center of Collin County Inc

The mission of children's advocacy center of collin county is to provide safety, healing, and justice to children victimized by abuse and neglect.

Civil Rights
11
Compassion Delivered Inc

Our Mission is to provide high-quality meals at no cost to people who are suffering from life-threatening or terminal diseases. We believe that people (men, women, and children) should not have to choose between medical care or suffer the…

Human Services
12
Children's Bureau Inc

Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc; the most unlike its peers is Allegro Organizational Solutions Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CANYON DEL ORO BAPTIST CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherCANYON DEL ORO BAPTIST CHURCHAGAPE CITY CHURCH: $23,200 · OtherAGAPE CITY CHURCH+2 more: $4,688 · OtherCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC: $42,425 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY …Combat Control Foundation Corp: $34,000 · Human ServicesCombat Control Foundation Cor…AMBASSADORS OF COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,706 · Human ServicesNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $41,728 · PhilanthropyNEMA FOUNDATION…CENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $28,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR…ALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalThe Compassion Alliance Inc: $10,000 · HealthST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $500 · Food & Nutrition
Other$127,888Human Services$79,131Philanthropy$41,728Crime & Legal$28,000International$20,500Health$10,000Food & Nutrition$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHRISTIAN FAMILY CARE AGENCY INC: $42,425 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEMA FOUNDATION INC: $41,728 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCombat Control Foundation Corp: $34,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILD PROTECTION: $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALLEGRO ORGANIZATIONAL SOLUTIONS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Compassion Alliance Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetAMBASSADORS OF COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL INC: $2,706 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGIVE KIDS THE WORLD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Natl Christian Charitable Fdn IncGA8.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Operation JOY Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Operation JOY Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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