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OPERATION BETTER BLOCK INC

EIN 23-7157433 PITTSBURGH, PA

Revenue 2024
$2,529,850
Expenses 2024
$2,259,586

Program services were 82.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
801 NORTH HOMEWOOD AVENUE

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

WE STRATEGIZE, ORGANIZE AND MOBILIZE, BLOCK BY BLOCK, TO BENEFIT THE HOMEWOOD COMMUNITY.

  • GROUP VIOLENCE INTERVENTION INITIATIVE - OPERATION BETTER BLOCKS GROUP VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM USES DIGITAL TOOLS TO CONNECT INDIVIDUALS TO RESOURCES QUICKLY, CAPTURE INFORMATION ABOUT RECIPIENTS THAT CAN BE IMMEDIATELY USED BY CASE WORKERS TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT TO INDIVIDUALS LIKELY TO BECOME INVOLVED IN VIOLENCE, WHO ARE AT RISK OF INCARCERATION AND THOSE WHO ARE RE-ENTERING SOCIETY AFTER INCARCERATION. BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN SERVICE PROVIDERS, TRUSTED ADVISOR AND THE PEOPLE NEEDING HELP, LEVERAGING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF STREET OUTREACH WORK.

    Expenses $1,057,717

  • RESIDENT SERVICES INITIATIVES - PROVIDES MOTIVATION, FINANCES AND NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITIES FOR RESIDENTS TO IMPROVE HOUSING AND DEVELOP NEW HOUSING. PERFORMS PERIODIC SURVEYS ON COMMUNITY NEEDS AND CHANGES. ASSISTS IN PLANNING FOR NEW IMPROVEMENTS IN THE COMMUNITY. ASSISTS NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS WHO EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS AFFECTING ASPECTS OF SOCIAL FUNCTIONING, AND TRANSMITS THE COMMUNITYS CONCERNS TO PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DECISION MAKERS, ASSURING THAT ALL VOICES ARE HEARD BEFORE COMMITMENTS AFFECTING THE COMMUNITY ARE MADE.

    Expenses $445,354

  • GREEN INITIATIVES (JUNIOR GREEN CORPS) - THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE JUNIOR GREEN CORPS IS TO PROVIDE HOMEWOOD YOUTH, AGES 14-19, WITH STRUCTURED ACTIVITIES THAT IMPACT THEIR PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT, EQUIP THEM FOR LEADERSHIP ROLES IN THE COMMUNITY, AND PROVIDE THEM WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE GREEN COLLAR JOBS AND CAREERS. THE JUNIOR GREEN CORPS PROGRAM TARGETS YOUTH WHO FACE ECONOMIC, EDUCATIONAL, OR PERSONAL BARRIERS SUCH AS DEFICIENCIES IN BASIC LITERACY SKILLS, PARENTHOOD, AND MINOR LEGAL ISSUES. THROUGH STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, WE PROVIDE OUR YOUTH WITH ACCESS TO THE GREEN INDUSTRY.

    Expenses $222,677

  • COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES - OBB PARTICIPATED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HOMEWOOD COMPREHENSIVE PLA. OBB CREATED/DEVELOPED THE LAND USE PLAN THAT IS IN THE HOMEWOOD COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.

    Expenses $129,895

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.

  • ROBERT GRADECK

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRIAN JOHNSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AMOSIZINNA SCOTT

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JIM GRIFFIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JOHN WALLACE Jr

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LANCE HARRELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAY GILMER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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
    $2,529,850
    Expenses
    $2,259,586
    Contributions
    $2,380,501
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,086,530
    Expenses
    $2,218,131
    Contributions
    $2,075,874
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,868,367
    Expenses
    $1,374,492
    Contributions
    $1,631,494
    Grants paid
    $0

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.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,260,993
    Expenses
    $1,643,421
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,247,806

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,468,472
    Expenses
    $1,707,332
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,203,549

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,632,920
    Expenses
    $1,455,234
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,637,731

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,633,065
    Expenses
    $1,438,033
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,655,077

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,864,944
    Expenses
    $1,306,013
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,229,990

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,519,988
    Expenses
    $1,076,357
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,460,140

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,445,694
    Expenses
    $1,044,010
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,401,780

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,011,392
    Expenses
    $1,043,598
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,009,958

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,476,874
    Expenses
    $1,174,857
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,027,167

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,423,505
    Expenses
    $991,511
    Assets (EOY)
    $659,279

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.