Iowa · Nonprofit
OPERATION ENPOWER
OPERATION ENPOWER (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,318 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($128,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $528k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $277k
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Operation Enpower does
Mission
Housing for recovering addicts and providing counseling and assisting in support services for individuals to preoperly reintroduce to community independently
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Assisting women and substance abuse rehab people to develop the ability to be independent and interdependent in the community providing case management services, financial management, and counseling regarding life skills, resume development and basic employment skills
$381,601 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $381,601.
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 $1.9M to $3.9M (+111%).
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: 2019 84% · 2020 74% · 2021 50% · 2022 89% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of OPERATION ENPOWER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Michelle Mihalakis
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $48k → $32k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 ENPOWER’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 ENPOWER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 ENPOWER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 94% · 2020 100% · 2021 90% · 2022 69% · 2023 66% — 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
50% of OPERATION ENPOWER's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 27% 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
51% of OPERATION ENPOWER'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 $136k that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside Iowa, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 ENPOWER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,828 housing & shelter nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OPERATION ENPOWER
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION ENPOWER: 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 ENPOWER?
- OPERATION ENPOWER (Iowa) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $277,318 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE ($128,250). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPERATION ENPOWER have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $277,318 in grants to OPERATION ENPOWER, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION ENPOWER?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER DUBUQUE is the largest funder on record, with $128,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION ENPOWER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 11 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