Operation Shanti

Analysis

Operation Shanti is a registered charity in United States, based in San Francisco, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 2005, 21 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Operation Shanti reported income of $109k and spending of $68k, leaving 38% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $81k to $109k (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 98%. Over the whole period it spent 107% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Operation Shanti sits at the 36th percentile: it is larger than about 36% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 39th percentile, and in the 41st percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Toward Educating Americas Children ($109k), Breath of Life International ($109k) and Doris Dillon School in Cambodia ($109k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $534k against liabilities of $0, net assets of $534k.