California · Nonprofit
OPERATION DIGNITY INC
OPERATION DIGNITY INC (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,301,479 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($935,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.8M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $-2970992
What Operation Dignity Inc does
Mission
Operation dignity's mission is to create pathways to health and housing for the most vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness in our community, with a continuing commitment to serving veterans, - continue on sch o
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provides emergency shelter, transitional, and permanent housing to homeless veterans. The programs offer a safe and dignified environment, food and other basic needs, and one-on-one case management and support in securing permanent housing.
$2,721,013 spent$478,257 earned by the program32% of program spendingThe programs are designed to allow the agency workers to locate and make contact with hard to reach homeless persons in alameda county and to provide basic needs to homeless encampments such as hygiene kits, blankets, clothing, food items, etc. The agency also gathers data on demographics and service needs of the homeless population. Additionally, to bring more people in from off the streets, there is a community cabins program where residents of large encampments take shelter in.
$3,426,737 spent40% of program spendingThe organization serves formerly homeless individuals and families in permanent housing, helping them maintain their newfound stability by offering case management, financial education, and community building.
$2,424,502 spent28% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,572,252.
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.
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 $5.0M to $6.6M (+31%).
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: 2017 68% · 2018 69% · 2019 77% · 2020 83% · 2021 84% · 2022 82% · 2023 78% · 2024 80% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of OPERATION DIGNITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $5k → $92k.
12 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 DIGNITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 DIGNITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% 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 DIGNITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 72% · 2019 59% · 2020 81% · 2021 25% · 2022 18% · 2023 16% — 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
38% of OPERATION DIGNITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
60% of OPERATION DIGNITY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $917k that is directly attributable, 61% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 DIGNITY INC has grown faster than half of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPERATION DIGNITY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22.6M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$22.6M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like OPERATION DIGNITY 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 DIGNITY 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 DIGNITY INC?
- OPERATION DIGNITY INC (California) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,301,479 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($935,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPERATION DIGNITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $2,301,479 in grants to OPERATION DIGNITY INC, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION DIGNITY INC?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $935,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION DIGNITY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 44 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing