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OPERATION AIRDROP INC

EIN 82-2886264 DECATUR, TX

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Revenue 2024
$4,208,152
Expenses 2024
$2,472,400

Program services were 98.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1226 COUNTY ROAD 4380

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

OUR MISSION IS TO RESPOND SWIFTLY AND EFFECTIVELY IN TIMES OF CRISIS, ENSURING THAT ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES REACH THOSE IN NEED WHEN TRADITIONAL GROUND TRANSPORTATION IS COMPROMISED.

  • GRANTS AND OTHER ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS/ORGANIZATIONS AFFECTED BY NATURAL DISASTERS.

    Expenses $2,432,793 · Grants $1,997,729

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Russ Keith

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $7,083
    From this org
    $7,083
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Matt Brantner

    DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Tara Winter

    DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Doug Jackson

    BOARD PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Robert Johnson

    VICE CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Ck Lee

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Larry Robicheaux

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • Aubie Pearman

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,208,152
    Expenses
    $2,472,400
    Contributions
    $4,208,152
    Grants paid
    $1,997,729
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,208,152
    Expenses
    $2,472,400
    Contributions
    $4,208,152
    Grants paid
    $1,997,729

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2025

Tax period
1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025
Principal officer
James R Keith
Mailing address
1226 CR 4380Decatur TX 76234

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

  • OPERATION HELO

    $1,816,765

    2024 DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS TO THE PEOPLE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA HIT BY HURRICANE HELENE, BY AIRLIFTING SUPPLIES, PROVIDING TRAILERS AND GENERATORS, AND MOVING PEOPLE TO SAFER PLACES.

  • MOUNTAIN HARBOUR B&B

    $50,000

    2024 PROVIDE DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS AND SUPPLIES FOR REBUILDING AFTER HURRICANE HELENE.

  • NOLICHUCKY HOSPITALITY

    $50,000

    2024 PROVIDE DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS AND SUPPLIES FOR REBUILDING AFTER HURRICANE HELENE.

  • TRIPLE C CAMPGROUND

    $50,000

    2024 PROVIDE DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS AND SUPPLIES FOR REBUILDING AFTER HURRICANE HELENE.

  • WHEELERS INN

    $25,000

    2024 PROVIDE DISASTER RELIEF EFFORTS AND SUPPLIES FOR REBUILDING AFTER HURRICANE HELENE.

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.