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OPERATION EXODUS USA

EIN 20-2076659 LANCASTER, NY

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Revenue 2023
$1,178,264
Expenses 2023
$1,100,386

Program services were 80.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
X20
Classification
1000
Street
PO BOX 568

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 · 2023

Mission

OEUSA'S ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION DESCRIBE ITS CHARITABLE MISSION TO INCLUDE PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN AID TO JEWISH COMMUNITIES AND CHRISTIAN CHURCHES. THIS MISSION INCLUDES FACILITATING EMIGRATION OF JEWISH PEOPLE TO ISRAEL FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE AND EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION, JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE AND HERITAGE

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE MOST SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES OPERATION EXODUS USA (OEUSA) PURSUES IN ORDER TO FULFILL ITS CHARITABLE HUMANITARIAN MISSION INCLUDE FACILITATING EMIGRATION OF NEEDY AND PERSECUTED JEWISH PERSONS FROM THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE TO ISRAEL. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS MISSION OEUSA CONDUCTS PROGRAMS TO INFORM BOTH THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND CHRISTIANS IN THE US ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION, JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND HERITAGE. THIS EDUCATION INCLUDES INFORMATION ABOUT PERSECUTION OF JEWISH PEOPLE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION AND ELSEWHERE AND THE URGENCY OF ASSISTING THEM. THE FINANCIAL INFORMATION NECESSARY TO PREPARE THE ORGANIZATION'S 2023 FORM 990 WAS GATHERED THROUGHOUT 2023 BY ACCOUNTING STAFF AND THEN VERIFIED BY ITS TREASURER. FISCAL REPORTS, INCLUDING PROFIT AND LOSS STATEMENTS, BALANCE SHEETS, AND BUDGET PROJECTIONS WERE DISTRIBUTED QUARTERLY AND REVIEWED AND ADOPTED BY THE ORGANIZATION'S BOARD AT BOARD MEETINGS.

  • IN 2023, OEUSA PRESENTED FREE EDUCATIONAL EVENTS FOR THE PUBLIC THROUGHOUT THE US ABOUT THE URGENCY OF ASSISTING JEWISH PEOPLE TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, OEUSA'S 11 STAFF AND 83 VOLUNTEERS WORKED TO EDUCATE THE US PUBLIC ABOUT JEWISH PERSONS SUFFERING PERSECUTION IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU) AND ELSEWHERE, INCLUDING IN THE US. OEUSA ALSO WORKED TO EDUCATE BOTH CHRISTIANS AND THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE US ABOUT THE JEWISH RELIGION, JEWISH HISTORY, CULTURE, AND HERITAGE. IN 2023, OEUSA'S 785 PRAYER INTERCESSORS (PRAYER PARTNERS) PROVIDED VITAL SPIRITUAL SUPPORT FOR OEUSA. FURTHER, OEUSA PROVIDED UPDATES ON ITS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO 263 CHURCHES AND 8477 INDIVIDUAL SUPPORTERS. IN ADDITION, A MEMBER OF OEUSA'S BOARD MET WITH THE BOARD OF EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL, IN SWANSEA, WALES. THESE MEETINGS ENABLED OEUSA AND EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL TO DISCUSS SIMILAR ACTIVITIES CONDUCTED BY EACH ORGANIZATION TO ASSIST DISTRESSED JEWISH PERSONS IN THE FSU. IN ORDER TO SUPPORT ITS ACTIVITIES, OEUSA MAINTAINED OFFICES IN THE US LOCATED IN NEW YORK CITY AND OEUSA'S HEADQUARTERS IN LANCASTER, NEW YORK. OEUSA IS A MEMBER OF THE EVANGELICAL COUNCIL FOR FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY (EFCA).

    Expenses $678,108 · Grants $164,601

  • DURING 2023, OEUSA ASSISTED 356 DISTRESSED AND PERSECUTED JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE US TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL (MAKE ALIYAH). IN PROVIDING RELIEF TO DISTRESSED JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE SEEKING TO MAKE ALIYAH TO ISRAEL, OEUSA IS SUPPORTING THE LONG HELD BELIEFS OF JEWISH PEOPLE WHO ARE CLAIMING THEIR RIGHT TO FREELY EXERCISE THEIR RELIGION. OEUSA ALSO PROVIDED SUPPORT TO JEWISH YOUTH THROUGH MITZVAH PROJECTS.

    Expenses $179,793 · Grants $179,793

  • DURING 2023, OEUSA PROVIDED FUNDING FOR HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO JEWISH PEOPLE, INCLUDING POVERTY-STRICKEN AND PERSECUTED JEWS LIVING IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (FSU). THIS FUNDING FOR JEWISH PEOPLE WAS PROVIDED THROUGH EBENEZER EMERGENCY FUND INTERNATIONAL (EEFI) UNDER A WRITTEN CONTRACT ALLOWING OEUSA TO EXERCISE CONTROL AND DISCRETION OF THE FUNDING. THIS FUNDING ALLOWED 9764 JEWISH PEOPLE LIVING IN THE FSU TO EMIGRATE TO THEIR HISTORIC HOMELAND OF ISRAEL. FUNDS PROVIDED BY OEUSA TO EEFI ALSO ALLOWED EEFI TO MAINTAIN 18 STAFF AT 4 BASES IN THE FSU, WHICH, IN TURN, ENABLED EEFI TO CONDUCT THE FOLLOWING CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES. SPECIFICALLY, OEUSA'S FUNDING TO EEFI ALLOWED EEFI TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN RELIEF TO 4458 POVERTY-STRICKEN AND PERSECUTED JEWISH FAMILIES IN THE FSU. IN ADDITION, OEUSA'S FUNDING TO EEFI MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR EEFI TO PROVIDE 1245 JEWISH FAMILIES WITH EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS ABOUT EEFI'S PROGRAM TO AID PERSECUTED AND POVERTY-STRICKEN JEWISH PEOPLE IN RETURNING TO THEIR HISTORIC HOMELAND OF ISRAEL. OEUSA'S GRANT FUNDING ALSO MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR EEFI'S STAFF TO PROVIDE 3386 CARE PACKAGES OF FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS TO POOR AND ISOLATED JEWISH AND NON-JEWISH FAMILIES IN THE FSU. IN ADDITION, OEUSA'S GRANT FUNDING ALLOWED EEFI TO MAKE 1074EDUCATIONAL VISITS TO CHURCHES IN THE FSU TO DESCRIBE EEFI'S PROGRAM TO ASSIST PERSECUTED AND NEEDY JEWISH PEOPLE TO EMIGRATE TO ISRAEL.

    Expenses $31,346 · Grants $31,346

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Phil Markwardt

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Wendy Beckett

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Richard Leggatt

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Gary Kah

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • James MacLean

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • John Prosser

    PRESIDENT/CEO

    Total calculated
    $63,680
    From this org
    $63,680
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Peter McEwan

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • Peggy Perry

    FINANCIAL MANAGER

    Total calculated
    $59,361
    From this org
    $59,361
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $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

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,178,264
    Expenses
    $1,100,386
    Contributions
    $1,149,492
    Grants paid
    $375,740
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,558,763
    Expenses
    $1,177,360
    Contributions
    $1,548,626
    Grants paid
    $509,792

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
    $1,673,620
    Expenses
    $1,073,909
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,667,692

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,521,367
    Expenses
    $954,304
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,061,463

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,222,859
    Expenses
    $1,002,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $489,125

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,237,538
    Expenses
    $1,180,755
    Assets (EOY)
    $273,291

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,221,195
    Expenses
    $1,260,958
    Assets (EOY)
    $209,488

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,422,741
    Expenses
    $1,254,236
    Assets (EOY)
    $355,130

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,289,272
    Expenses
    $1,336,239
    Assets (EOY)
    $218,213

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.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.