Virginia · Nonprofit
OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD
OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $55k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $48k
- Net assets
- $6k
What Operation Snow Leopard does
Mission
Operation Snow Leopard is a nonprofit founded by a group of veterans and civilian allies to support, evacuate, and resettle high-risk Afghan refugees. Our volunteer team helps Afghans being persecuted, including women leaders, human rights defenders, lawyers, journalists, interpreters, and other vulnerable minorities who have been left behind.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In 2024, Operation Snow Leopard coordinated safe passage, protection, and case management for high-risk Afghan families facing persecution. Our volunteer network helped move individuals to safer locations, maintained safe houses supporting 40 Afghans, and coordinated documentation including SIV, P-1, P-2, and humanitarian parole cases. We supported Afghan students and families in the US, Pakistan, Spain, and Argentina, along with individuals unable to safely return to Afghanistan. These efforts ensured lifesaving protection for vulnerable women leaders, human rights defenders, journalists, interpreters, and other at-risk groups.
$29,353 spent60% of program spendingOSL provided direct support to Afghan families rebuilding their lives in the United States through legal case assistance, housing placement, and access to essential services. Volunteers coordinated job support, workforce integration, medical and psychological care referrals, and emergency shelter solutions. The team also helped Afghan members launch small businesses and connect with community resources to stabilize long-term resettlement. These comprehensive services ensured that newly arrived Afghans were able to begin rebuilding with dignity, safety, and support.
$16,829 spent35% of program spendingThroughout 2024, OSL collaborated with international organizations including the International Parliamentary Union, Parliamentarians for Global Action, the International Association of Women Judges, Jewish Humanitarian Response, and Christian Freedom International. Volunteers traveled at their own expense to meet partners, attend UN and Geneva discussions, and advance evacuation and protection strategies. These partnerships allowed OSL to elevate the cases of Afghan women leaders and other high-risk individuals in order to secure vital pathways for relocation.
$921 spent2% of program spendingIn 2024, OSL hosted its first in-person Annual Gathering in Los Angeles, bringing together veterans, civilians, donors, and Afghan families to strengthen mission unity. OSL also partnered with The Moth to run a four-week storytelling program culminating in a live event highlighting Afghan and veteran voices. Media efforts included a Global Washington article, a Goalmakers Podcast feature, and transitioning The Afghan Digest to the Association of Wartime Allies, where it continues as an independent weekly intelligence report supported by OSL collaborators. These storytelling and community efforts expanded awareness, advocacy, and support for Afghan families still at risk.
$1,460 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $48,563.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2022 to 2023, from $50k to $14k (−72%).
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.
100% of OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $2k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 SNOW LEOPARD’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 SNOW LEOPARD has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
90% 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 SNOW LEOPARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 67% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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 SNOW LEOPARD draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $23k 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.
Against its field
OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD's revenue fell 75% between 2022 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,550 arts & culture nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD
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In Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD: 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 SNOW LEOPARD?
- OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD (Virginia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,400 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($13,400). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $48,400 in grants to OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $13,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 5 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