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Operation Nightingale USA

Operation Nightingale USA (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,723 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$731k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$123k
Net assets
$26k
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 48%
01What it does

What Operation Nightingale USA does

Mission

promoting the well-being of disabled veterans transitioning to civilian life through 'Rehabilitation Archaeology'

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Placed veterans in various locations for excavations. Directed first season of fieldwork on the AVAR Conflict Archaeology School-Camden Directed 7th season of fieldwork as a partner of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, on MACR 342 in Sicily. Subcontracted to Terracon to field a veteran team on their Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency partner mission in Germany. Subcontracted to Tetra Tech as a part of their Sentinel project in the Midwest. Continued to subcontract to SWCA Environmental Consulting on the Lake Ralph Hall Project in Texas

    $666,603 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $666,603.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($55k)2020 Revenue 34 ($52k) Expenses 66 ($65k) Net assets 955 ($522k)2021 Revenue 336 ($508k) Expenses 399 ($392k) Net assets 1109 ($606k)2022 Revenue 312 ($472k) Expenses 490 ($482k) Net assets 1090 ($595k)2023 Revenue 132 ($200k) Expenses 285 ($280k) Net assets 85 ($46k)2024 Revenue 465 ($703k) Expenses 754 ($742k) Net assets 27 ($15k)2025 Revenue 484 ($731k) Expenses 690 ($679k) Net assets 47 ($26k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (484)Expenses (690)Net assets (47)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 2022 to 2023, from $595k to $49k (−92%).

$55k
$522k
$606k
$595k
$49k
$23k
$44k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 38% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of Operation Nightingale USA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$53k
’19
−$13k
’20
$116k
’21
−$10k
’22
−$81k
’23
−$39k
’24
$53k
’25
0.8
months of
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.

20202021202220242025
Listed11444
Joined····+0
No longer listed····0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $20k → $10k.

Funder
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
funders
1
1
1
2
3
1

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 76% 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 Nightingale USA’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 Nightingale USA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% 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 Nightingale USA.

57%
largest funder
92%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 60% · 2022 39% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.

“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

76% of Operation Nightingale USA'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 $30k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Michigan, across 1 state.

DC

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

’18
’22
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Operation Nightingale USA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,448 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve0.8mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like Operation Nightingale USA

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 Michigan

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members
75%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

0%

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 Nightingale USA: 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 Nightingale USA?
Operation Nightingale USA (Michigan) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $122,723 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($70,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 76% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Operation Nightingale USA have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $122,723 in grants to Operation Nightingale USA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Operation Nightingale USA?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Operation Nightingale USA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 4 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