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OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC

OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC (Washington) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,522,195 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($505,388). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$397k
Funders on record
55
Grants received
$3.5M
Net assets
$1.6M
37/55 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Operation Nightwatch Inc does

Mission

Operation nightwatch reduces the impact of poverty and homelessness, in keeping with jesus teaching to love our neighbors. There are no religious requirements to receive services.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Street ministry: bringing tangible and spiritual support in a variety of non-traditional settings: homeless camps, tiny house villages, shelters, and wherever homeless people gather. Developing supportive relationships and moving people into shelter, housing, treatment, or relocation.

    $54,327 spentof which $5,114 as grants
    12% of program spending
  2. Shelter dispatch center: providing food and shelter for homeless adults nightly, including off-site shelter for men and women. Referrals for basic services, hygiene supplies, socks and blankets are also distributed.

    $283,714 spentof which $84,130 as grants
    65% of program spending
  3. Senior housing program: housing 24 low-income seniors in an sro (single-room-occupancy) building with shared bathrooms and kitchens. Support services help seniors to maintain housing stability.

    $72,389 spentof which $641 as grants$22,139 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  4. Volunteer coordination: more than 1,000 volunteers annually provide support in all aspects of the organization. Walking the streets with the ministry teams, cooking the nightly meal, providing hospitality services in all programs, and supporting housing and shelter clients with stability and security.

    $28,668 spentof which $101 as grants
    7% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $439,098.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2018 Revenue 137 ($1.7M) Expenses 108 ($1.3M) Net assets 145 ($1.5M)2019 Revenue 111 ($1.4M) Expenses 129 ($1.5M) Net assets 132 ($1.4M)2020 Revenue 142 ($1.7M) Expenses 135 ($1.6M) Net assets 151 ($1.6M)2021 Revenue 165 ($2.0M) Expenses 134 ($1.5M) Net assets 198 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 173 ($2.1M) Expenses 164 ($1.9M) Net assets 221 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 136 ($1.7M) Expenses 190 ($2.2M) Net assets 171 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 169 ($2.1M) Expenses 191 ($2.2M) Net assets 159 ($1.7M)2025 Revenue 32 ($397k) Expenses 47 ($541k) Net assets 149 ($1.6M)
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Revenue (32)Expenses (47)Net assets (149)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 $2.4M to $1.9M (−22%).

$1.1M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$2.1M
$2.4M
$1.9M
$1.8M
$1.7M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

93% of OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$77k
’17
$442k
’18
−$127k
’19
$182k
’20
$491k
’21
$235k
’22
−$523k
’23
−$121k
’24
−$145k
’25
17
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.

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Listed161919141515141616
Joined·+5+3+5+1+5+2+6+1
No longer listed·231005341
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $57k → $460k.

15 of 55 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 NIGHTWATCH INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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 NIGHTWATCH INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left

59% 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 NIGHTWATCH INC.

14%
largest funder
37%
top three
~14
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 47% · 2019 33% · 2020 18% · 2021 24% · 2022 23% · 2023 16% — 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.

How long its funders stay

42% of OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

56% of OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from Washington funders.

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

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Washington out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−36% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve16.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−13% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 11%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC?
OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC (Washington) receives grants from 55 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,522,195 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($505,388). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC have?
IRS filings report 55 organizations giving $3,522,195 in grants to OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC?
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $505,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPERATION NIGHTWATCH INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 55 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