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Mississippi · Public charity

Operation Shoestring Inc

To invest in the hearts and minds of our children and their families, to promote health and self-sufficiency, and faithfully extend the hand of hope and opportunity to empower the needy, uplift our target neighborhoods and the larger community, and brighten the future for us all.

$301k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
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100% of Operation Shoestring Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Mississippi, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Median grant, FY2024
$301,205
Largest grant, FY2024
$301,205
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$7.0M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI$301,205

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About Operation Shoestring Inc

How much does Operation Shoestring Inc give?
Operation Shoestring Inc reported 1 grants totaling $301,205 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Operation Shoestring Inc fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Philanthropy (100%).
Where is Operation Shoestring Inc based?
Operation Shoestring Inc is based in MS.

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 1 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 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 and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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