Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
OPERATION WILDCAT
OPERATION WILDCAT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,189 to it, the largest being THE ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $53k
- Net assets
- $55k
What Operation Wildcat does
Mission
Providing resources for school district families in need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mechanicsburg Recreation Board Enrichment Scholarships - this grant provides funds to the recreation board to support scholarships for children with financial need to participate in after school programs offered by the recreation board.
$8,000 spentof which $8,000 as grants11% of program spendingMechanicsburg Area School District Building Funds - this grant provides classroom teachers with funds to purchase supplies and snacks for their classrooms.
$10,000 spentof which $10,000 as grants14% of program spendingMechanicsburg Area Student Support - this fund provides support to families in need in Mechanicsburg School District.
$15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants21% of program spendingOther Services Listed in Schedule O.
$39,724 spentof which $39,724 as grants55% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $72,724.
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 $57k to $74k (+30%).
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 WILDCAT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $206 → $14k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 WILDCAT’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 WILDCAT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 50% · 2023 74% — 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
98% of OPERATION WILDCAT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $989 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 WILDCAT has grown faster than half of the 9,787 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like OPERATION WILDCAT
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OPERATION WILDCAT: 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 WILDCAT?
- OPERATION WILDCAT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $53,189 to it, the largest being THE ARNOLD FOUNDATION ($35,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION WILDCAT have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $53,189 in grants to OPERATION WILDCAT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION WILDCAT?
- THE ARNOLD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION WILDCAT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2022–2025), 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