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OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1

OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1 (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,152,815 to it, the largest being THE CARUSO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,670,074). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$21k
Funders on record
34
Grants received
$4.2M
Net assets
$0
19/34 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Operation Progress Student Assistance Fdn Cal-1 does

Mission

The mission of operation progress op is to empower youths from watts, south los angeles, and the housing developments to become educated, ethical, and productive adults who reach their full potential and positively contribute to society. To do this, op is committed to supporting scholars beginning in 3rd grade through college graduation with our comprehensive program called the 5 pillars of success academics, life skills, health & wellness, service, and safety & support. We offer individual academic case management, lapd mentorship, after school expanded learning programs, executive function skill development, socioemotional support, summer programs, and scholarships to participating scholars.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Administration of programs

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($738k) Expenses 100 ($665k) Net assets 100 ($294k)2018 Revenue 151 ($1.1M) Expenses 130 ($866k) Net assets 175 ($516k)2019 Revenue 171 ($1.3M) Expenses 203 ($1.3M) Net assets 147 ($432k)2020 Revenue 173 ($1.3M) Expenses 162 ($1.1M) Net assets 216 ($636k)2021 Revenue 90 ($662k) Expenses 154 ($1.0M) Net assets 92 ($272k)2022 Revenue 229 ($1.7M) Expenses 147 ($975k) Net assets 335 ($986k)2023 Revenue 159 ($1.2M) Expenses 164 ($1.1M) Net assets 362 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 52 ($384k) Expenses 192 ($1.3M) Net assets 58 ($172k)2025 Revenue 3 ($19k) Expenses 12 ($78k) Net assets 8 ($23k)2026 Revenue 3 ($21k) Expenses 7 ($44k) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (3)Expenses (7)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.1M to $172k (−84%).

$294k
$516k
$432k
$636k
$272k
$986k
$1.1M
$172k
$23k
$0
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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
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 10 reported years ran a deficit.

$74k
’17
$249k
’18
−$84k
’19
$204k
’20
−$364k
’21
$714k
’22
$84k
’23
−$895k
’24
−$59k
’25
−$23k
’26
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.

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Listed1617131414151414
Joined·+1+1+5+0+3+2+0
No longer listed·0540230
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $207k → $775k.

9 of 34 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 21% 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 PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 34 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 PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1 leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

25% 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 PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1.

40%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 25% · 2019 45% · 2020 51% · 2021 46% · 2022 49% · 2023 35% — 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

48% of OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

98% of OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1's grant income comes from California funders.

IL
NY
MA
OR
CA
DC
TX

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $869k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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

Organizations like OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1

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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Public support

65%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1?
OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1 (California) receives grants from 34 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,152,815 to it, the largest being THE CARUSO FAMILY FOUNDATION ($1,670,074). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1 have?
IRS filings report 34 organizations giving $4,152,815 in grants to OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1?
THE CARUSO FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,670,074 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like OPERATION PROGRESS STUDENT ASSISTANCE FDN CAL-1 find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2017–2026), and the filings of 34 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