Ohio · Nonprofit
OPERATION GIVE BACK
OPERATION GIVE BACK (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,014 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($121,700). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $520k
- Net assets
- $538k
What Operation Give Back does
Mission
To strive for educational equity and provide community outreach to students and families in need inspiring all to realize their full potential and give back to society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community food pantry provides food, personal care items and household products to families served through the pantry. Weekly bread bundles are distributed to students through local schools and to low-income individuals in the surrounding community. In addition, the pantry delivers food monthly to approximately 35 low-income families.
$543,528 spent56% of program spendingAnnual holiday store/coat giveaway is a 2-day event that provides coats, toys, books, food, clothing, and personal care items to at-risk children in the community in hopes of ensuring a brighter holiday season. Over 1,400 children were served through the holiday store and over 700 kids were given coats in 2025.
$249,232 spent26% of program spendingAfter school tutoring program provides homework assistance in academic subjects and life skills for at-risk children (grades 2-8). In order to support the whole child physically, emotionally and spiritually, we invite guest speakers to share their experiences, offer an optional weekly "dinner and a bible" program, and coordinate high interest summer field trips and swim lessons. All activities are done in order to broaden students' horizons, as well as provide them with opportunities to give back. Snacks are provided to students enrolled in the after school tutoring program, and dinner is served once a week to approximately 25 students and adults participating in the evening program.
$95,545 spent10% of program spendingSchool supply giveaway supplies at-risk children with new backpacks and essential school supplies to start their school year off right. Nearly 900 children were served in 2025.
$75,550 spent8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $963,855.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $105k to $238k (+127%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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.
Board chair
Beverly Tharp
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $38k → $60k.
7 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 GIVE BACK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 GIVE BACK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
80% 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 GIVE BACK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 51% · 2019 43% · 2020 43% · 2021 21% · 2022 24% · 2023 22% — 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
41% of OPERATION GIVE BACK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
68% of OPERATION GIVE BACK'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 $166k that is directly attributable, 54% of it comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $354k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like OPERATION GIVE BACK
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 Ohio
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
99%
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 GIVE BACK: 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 GIVE BACK?
- OPERATION GIVE BACK (Ohio) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $520,014 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($121,700). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OPERATION GIVE BACK have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $520,014 in grants to OPERATION GIVE BACK, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION GIVE BACK?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $121,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION GIVE BACK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 32 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