Florida · Nonprofit
OPERATION BARNABAS INC
OPERATION BARNABAS INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,591 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $255k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $178k
- Net assets
- $84k
What Operation Barnabas Inc does
Mission
The mission of Operation Barnabas is to ignite a positive transformation in the lives of veterans and first responders through faith action and encouragement.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2025 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Jail Ministry - restore Valor. With over 180,000 incarcerated veterans in the United States we partner with local jails to form dedicated Veteran Pods-strategic dorms within jails. Our powerful curriculum Houses of Healing delivered by Barnabas instructors equips and empowers incarcerated veterans to transform lief-long patterns of violence addiction and trauma.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Veteran Services - Crisis Responses through Triage Evaluation to determine level of care needed. Finding a safe place transportation mentorship and counseling. We provide ongoing support by connecting participants with a network of resources aimed at fostering continued growth and recovery. Through partnerships with clinical counselors mentorship programs and local churches we help individuals build strong support systems.
$144,416 spent$162,588 earned by the program76% of program spendingBarnabas Outdoors -provides access to saltwater therapy leading veterans and first responders out of isolation and into healing waters. Through our expeditions we forge new experiences in a community where adrenaline teamwork and the unknown converge.
$16,740 spent$26,146 earned by the program9% of program spendingJail Pod Correctional Services -Operation Barnabas utilizes the research-based Houses of Healing curriculum published by the Lionheart Foundation a cornerstone of jail and prison programming for 30 years. The powerful curriculum delivered by Barnabas instructors equips incarcerated veterans to: Learn emotion regulation stress-management techniques and mindfulness meditation Acquire cognitive-behavioral skills to reframe challenging situations and alter life-long patterns of violence and addiction Acknowledge work with and heal childhood trauma Transform anger resentment and unhealthy guilt and shame Explore and heal grief Acknowledge the impact of crime build victim awareness and take responsibility for offending behavior Work with and adopt forgiveness as a practical strategy Nurture spiritual growth
$29,821 spent$50,650 earned by the program16% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $190,977.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $113k to $413k (+266%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 7% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of OPERATION BARNABAS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John Green
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $29k.
5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of OPERATION BARNABAS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
OPERATION BARNABAS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OPERATION BARNABAS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 37% · 2021 50% · 2022 43% · 2023 39% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
25% of OPERATION BARNABAS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
85% of OPERATION BARNABAS INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $84k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
OPERATION BARNABAS INC has grown faster than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like OPERATION BARNABAS INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION BARNABAS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERATION BARNABAS INC?
- OPERATION BARNABAS INC (Florida) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $177,591 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($60,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION BARNABAS INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $177,591 in grants to OPERATION BARNABAS INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION BARNABAS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $60,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION BARNABAS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 9 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing