North Carolina · Nonprofit
OPERATION HELO INC
OPERATION HELO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,239,731 to it, the largest being OPERATION AIRDROP INC ($1,816,765). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
OPERATION HELO INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared funders
- Global Support and Developmentportfolio match
- The Lomax Family Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
13 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 HELO INC’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 HELO INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 HELO INC.
“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.
Where its funders are
OPERATION HELO INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 10 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $751k arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 106 organizations that share your funders
- Global Support and Developmentportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lomax Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Green Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kates Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rogersslater Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hilton Head Firefighters Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- W Klopman Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dolores & Donald Burnett Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Colquitt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Potato Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Victoria Garrett Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like OPERATION HELO INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 HELO 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERATION HELO INC?
- OPERATION HELO INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,239,731 to it, the largest being OPERATION AIRDROP INC ($1,816,765). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION HELO INC have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,239,731 in grants to OPERATION HELO INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION HELO INC?
- OPERATION AIRDROP INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,816,765 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION HELO INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 28funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing