Operation Care and Comfort

Analysis

Operation Care and Comfort is a registered charity in United States, based in Fairfield, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in December 2010, 16 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. 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 September 2023, Operation Care and Comfort reported income of $2.3m and spending of $2.4m, spending 101% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2023, income fell from $2.4m to $2.3m (-0.8%), an average of -0.2% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income dropped by 56%. Over the whole period it spent 100% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Operation Care and Comfort sits at the 85th percentile: it is larger than about 84% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 87th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Westside Family Preservation Service ($2.3m), Hunger Fight Inc ($2.3m) and Advocacy Unlimited Inc ($2.3m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $602k against liabilities of $14k, net assets of $588k.