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OPERATION CARE INC

OPERATION CARE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,488 to it, the largest being METRO UNITED WAY INC ($356,818). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$886k
Net assets
$1.4M
13/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%
01What it does

What Operation Care Inc does

Mission

Operation care is a christian ministry that seeks to provide for the physical, spiritual, emotional, and social well-being of people in need of a loving, compassionate environment in the name of jesus christ.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. This program provides medical, dental and pharmaceutical services to uninsured and financially disadvantaged people at the operation care mercy medical clinic.

    $1,093,486 spent$17,316 earned by the program
    64% of program spending
  2. This program provides transitional housing and mentoring for women and children to help move residents from homelessness to self-reliance. This program also includes a child-enrichment program that helps break the cycle of poverty by providing sheltered children with tutoring and other life-enriching experiences.

    $362,533 spent$5,741 earned by the program
    21% of program spending
  3. This program includes emergency food, clothing and household furnishings assistance to people facing crisis situations such as flood, fire, and joss loss; a thrift store that provides low-cost, quality merchandise at affordable costs; and a community christmas event that provides blankets, hats, gloves, toys, age-appropriate literature about the true meaning of christmas, and a food basket to children from financially disadvantaged families.

    $242,072 spentof which $242,072 as grants
    14% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,698,091.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.1M) Net assets 100 ($936k)2018 Revenue 114 ($1.1M) Expenses 90 ($1.0M) Net assets 115 ($1.1M)2020 Revenue 129 ($1.3M) Expenses 102 ($1.1M) Net assets 115 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 113 ($1.1M) Expenses 86 ($964k) Net assets 134 ($1.3M)2022 Revenue 104 ($1.0M) Expenses 101 ($1.1M) Net assets 125 ($1.2M)2023 Revenue 147 ($1.5M) Expenses 129 ($1.4M) Net assets 130 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 182 ($1.8M) Expenses 158 ($1.8M) Net assets 138 ($1.3M)2025 Revenue 190 ($1.9M) Expenses 162 ($1.8M) Net assets 150 ($1.4M)
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Revenue (190)Expenses (162)Net assets (150)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.4M to $1.9M (+43%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.3M
$1.3M
$1.4M
$1.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of OPERATION CARE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,793 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$107k
’17
$139k
’18
$167k
’20
$176k
’21
−$80k
’22
$43k
’23
$75k
’24
$115k
’25
0.8
months of
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.

Board chair

Steve Hornback

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed1010988788
Joined·+2·+1+0+0+4+0
No longer listed·2·20130
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $45k → $125k.

6 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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 CARE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 22 funders by total. 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 CARE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

77% 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 CARE INC.

40%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 80% · 2020 40% · 2021 66% · 2022 38% · 2023 40% — 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

56% of OPERATION CARE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

88% of OPERATION CARE INC's grant income comes from Kentucky funders.

MN
KY
VA
DE
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Kentucky out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $294k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OPERATION CARE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · above the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 5%Fundraising 1%

Governance

8
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

KY

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPERATION CARE INC?
OPERATION CARE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $886,488 to it, the largest being METRO UNITED WAY INC ($356,818). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPERATION CARE INC have?
IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $886,488 in grants to OPERATION CARE INC, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPERATION CARE INC?
METRO UNITED WAY INC is the largest funder on record, with $356,818 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPERATION CARE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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