Connecticut · Nonprofit
OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC
OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,570,691 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($680,433). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 82
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc does
Mission
Provide people opportunity to experience transformative change with programs that focus on eliminating hunger & homelessness, addressing complex needs & encouraging independence. Help people solve their crises & build stability in an environment of compassion, dignity & hope.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
A team of skilled social workers, including msws (master of social workers) and daily living skills coaches, provide clinical and case management support to help community residents obtain and maintain housing, develop skills, increase income, work on their physical and mental health, and increase their self-sufficiency and independence. Comprehensive services are provided to residents of oh properties' housing units, clients who reside in market rate units scattered throughout the community, and homeless individuals and families who are waiting to be housed.safe, affordable housing with support is provided to formerly homeless and at-risk individuals and families. Comprehensive support services are provided to residents as an integral component of the housing. Residents pay 30% of their income for rent and have a case manager assigned to them to help them stay successfully housed. Efforts are made to connect them to mainstream services, in an effort to reduce dependence and improve outcomes.
$2,335,969 spent$332,764 earned by the program65% of program spendingOperation hope provides services to help individuals and families find and keep permanent housing through a homeless response center team that conducts outreach, intake, case management and housing placement in conjunction with the existing short-term rapid rehousing and supportive housing programs. Additionally, operation hope operates a community kitchen serving two meals a day (lunch and dinner); and a food pantry to provide basic needs to those who struggle to make ends meet. Outreach and information/referral services are also made available to visitors of the pantry and kitchen, in an effort to help them address any other issues that may becontributing to their instability.
$1,207,510 spent34% of program spendingProvides opportunities for members of the community to become directly involved with the organization by volunteering their time and talents. Based on their skills and preferences, volunteers are matched with appropriate project-based, short- or long-term activities including cooking or serving meals, helping in the food pantry, holiday activities, administrative support or fundraising event support.
$26,916 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,570,395.
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 2024 to 2025, from $5.8M to $4.2M (−28%).
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 41% · 2018 40% · 2019 43% · 2020 48% · 2021 42% · 2022 44% · 2023 64% · 2024 58% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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.
Chief executive
Carla Miklos
Executive director
Board chair
Darrin Scott Fodor
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 33 funders, grant income rose $222k → $263k.
16 of 82 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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 HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
65% 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 HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 29% · 2019 33% · 2020 45% · 2021 28% · 2022 30% · 2023 25% — 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 HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
81% of OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC's funding base is broadening — from 18 funders to 33 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.3M
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 HOPE OF FAIRFIELD 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 Connecticut
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Oh Properties LLC · disregarded
- Micah Housing Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC?
- OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 82 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,570,691 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($680,433). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC have?
- IRS filings report 82 organizations giving $3,570,691 in grants to OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $680,433 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 82 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