Missouri · Nonprofit
OPERATION LIBERATION
OPERATION LIBERATION (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,656 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($280,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $181k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $400k
- Net assets
- $48k
What Operation Liberation does
Mission
Black kansas citians are disproportionately criminalized and caged while awaiting trial, due to over-policing and institutional anti-blackness. Operation Liberation aims to remove barriers to black liberation, end cash bail and pretrial detention, and dismantle oppressive systems designed to keep us in chains. We mobilize, support, and educate the community around the issue of social justice by facilitating connections to community resources that affirm the black communitys ability to self-govern and motivate the community into action.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Operation Liberation provides bail support, restorative justice practices, mutual aid, and other life affirming resources to the black community.
$126,266 spentof which $200 as grants$2,500 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $126,266.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $64k to $14k (−77%).
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.
98% of OPERATION LIBERATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $30k → $247k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 LIBERATION’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 LIBERATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 LIBERATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 38% · 2023 81% — 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.
Where its funders are
OPERATION LIBERATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45k 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 LIBERATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,798 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,798 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OPERATION LIBERATION
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION LIBERATION: 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 LIBERATION?
- OPERATION LIBERATION (Missouri) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $399,656 to it, the largest being BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY ($280,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION LIBERATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $399,656 in grants to OPERATION LIBERATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION LIBERATION?
- BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY is the largest funder on record, with $280,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION LIBERATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 8 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