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OPERATION FOREVER FREE

OPERATION FOREVER FREE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $603,000 to it, the largest being SMILES CHARITY INC ($603,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$0
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$603k
Net assets
$24k
1/1 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Operation Forever Free does

Mission

To improve the quality of life for injured military service men, women, and their families

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. To improve the quality of life for injured military service men, women, and their families

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

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 ($185k) Expenses 100 ($185k) Net assets 100 ($12k)2018 Revenue 34 ($62k) Expenses 3 ($6k) Net assets 561 ($69k)2019 Revenue 2 ($4k) Expenses 14 ($25k) Net assets 385 ($47k)2020 Revenue 0 ($500) Expenses 0 ($17) Net assets 389 ($48k)2021 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 11 ($20k) Net assets 227 ($28k)2022 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 0 ($583) Net assets 222 ($27k)2024 Revenue 0 ($0) Expenses 2 ($3k) Net assets 195 ($24k)
2017201820192020202120222024
Revenue (0)Expenses (2)Net assets (195)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 2017 to 2018, from $12k to $69k (+461%).

$12k
$69k
$47k
$48k
$28k
$27k
$24k
2017201820192020202120222024
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
2019
2020
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of OPERATION FOREVER FREE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (52% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,628 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19
’17
$57k
’18
−$22k
’19
$483
’20
−$20k
’21
−$583
’22
−$3k
’24
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $35k → $300k.

Funder
'17
'18
'21
total
Smiles Charity Incunclassified
$603k
funders
1
1
1

From the IRS filings of OPERATION FOREVER FREE’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.

Where its funders are

100% of OPERATION FOREVER FREE's grant income comes from Texas funders.

TX

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

’17
’18
’21
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 FOREVER FREE's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Revenue growth (annualized)−86% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,694 housing & shelter nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Organizations like OPERATION FOREVER FREE

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 Texas

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION FOREVER FREE: 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 FOREVER FREE?
OPERATION FOREVER FREE (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $603,000 to it, the largest being SMILES CHARITY INC ($603,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPERATION FOREVER FREE have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $603,000 in grants to OPERATION FOREVER FREE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPERATION FOREVER FREE?
SMILES CHARITY INC is the largest funder on record, with $603,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPERATION FOREVER FREE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 1 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