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OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS

EIN 45-2566382 GILROY, CA

Largest nonprofits in California

Revenue 2025
$1,771,193
Expenses 2025
$1,742,430

Program services were 93.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W30
Classification
1000
Street
777 1ST ST PMB 515

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 · 2025

Mission

Operation Freedom Paws empowers veterans and individuals with disabilities to restore their freedom to live life.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Assistance to veterans and others with disabilities to live a quality life by helping the individuals learn the necessary skills to train their dogs and then certify as a service dog team.

  • SERVICE DOG PROGRAM - OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS (OFP) PROVIDES SERVICES AT NO COST TO DISABLED (VETERANS, FIRST RESPONDERS, KIDS AND NONVETERANS). THE PROGRAM IS A MINIMUM OF 48 WEEKS. IT INCLUDES PROVIDING A SERVICE DOG, TRAINING, VETERINARY CARE, NECESSARY EQUIPMENT, MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELING FOR THE CLIENT AND THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS, COMMUNITY OUTINGS, GROUP AND PEER TO PEER COUNSELING. ALL TRAINING IS FOCUSED ON TRAINING THE CLIENT TO TRAIN THE SERVICE DOG FOR THE INDIVIDUAL CLIENTS NEEDS. IN 2025 SUPPORTED 602 CLIENTS, 31 OF WHICH WERE NEW PARTICIPANTS, AND CONTINUED TO HAVE AN ACTIVE TRAINING GROUP OF 38. OFP ALSO PROVIDED 7 THERAPY DOGS IN TRAINING TO 3 DIFFERENT LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, TO REDUCE AND PREVENT SUICIDE.

    Expenses $1,397,124

  • KENNEL PROGRAM - OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS (OFP) OPERATES A 24/7 KENNEL. OUR DOGS COME FROM SHELTERS AND RESCUES THAT MEET THE CRITERIA FOR THE OFP SERVICE DOG PROGRAM, HOUSES THEM AT THE KENNEL AND FUNDS ALL THEIR MEDICAL CARE UNTIL MATCHED AND SENT HOME WITH THE CLIENT. TRAINERS AND KENNEL STAFF WORK ON BASIC TRAINING, THEN CLIENTS TAKE OVER FOR BEGINING, INTERMEDIATE, AND ADVANCED TRAINING FOLLOWED BY SERVICE DOG TRAINING. IN ADDITION TO DOGS IN TRAINING, OFP OFFERS DAYCARE AND BOARDING AT A NO COST OR REDUCED COST TO FIRST RESPONDERS, LAW ENFORCEMENT K9S AND OFP CLIENTS WHO NEED MEDICAL SERVICES WHERE IT IS UNSAFE TO TAKE THE DOGS WITH THEM. OFP ALSO OFFERS DAYCARE AND BOARDING SERVICES TO THE PUBLIC. THE KENNEL FACILITY IS ALSO USED FOR TRAINING AND A SAFE PLACE FOR CLIENTS TO COME WHEN IN CRISIS. IT ALSO OPERATES AS A 24-HOUR HOTLINE FOR ALL OFP CLIENTS AND THEIR FAMILIES.

    Expenses $231,177 · Revenue $669,721

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Mary Cortani

    President & ED

    Total calculated
    $99,344
    From this org
    $99,344
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Nicole Martinez

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    20

  • Diane Jimenez

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    5

  • John Mark Wilson

    Director

    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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,771,193
    Expenses
    $1,742,430
    Contributions
    $1,115,240
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,986,889
    Expenses
    $1,580,581
    Contributions
    $1,384,342
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,282,632
    Expenses
    $1,543,487
    Contributions
    $781,832
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,637,703
    Expenses
    $1,356,738
    Contributions
    $1,055,859
    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
    $1,358,876
    Expenses
    $1,143,177
    Assets (EOY)
    $912,362

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $916,337
    Expenses
    $833,113
    Assets (EOY)
    $682,679

  • 2020 · 990-T

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    not reported
    Assets (EOY)
    not reported

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $874,402
    Expenses
    $914,476
    Assets (EOY)
    $556,173

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $870,546
    Expenses
    $1,069,017
    Assets (EOY)
    $547,550

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $958,294
    Expenses
    $909,398
    Assets (EOY)
    $746,021

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

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

California fundraising campaigns

Campaigns run by paid fundraisers, commercial coventurers and thrift stores naming this organization, as California published them. Both figures are as filed, and what the first one counts depends on the campaign type — a coventurer or a thrift store files its own sales rather than money collected for the charity. The 990 reports this only as a yearly total, never per campaign.

  • ABLE AUTO CHARITY DONATION CORP.

    $27,275 raised

    2024 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $3,381 to charity

  • ABLE AUTO CHARITY DONATION CORP.

    $25,967 raised

    2023 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $6,430 to charity

  • ABLE AUTO CHARITY DONATION CORP.

    $31,016 raised

    2022 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $4,076 to charity

  • ABLE AUTO CHARITY DONATION CORP.

    $63,267 raised

    2021 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $16,035 to charity

  • ABLE AUTO CHARITY DONATION CORP.

    $66,636 raised

    2020 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $11,895 to charity

  • ABLE AUTO CHARITY DONATION CORP.

    $66,636 raised

    2019 CF Vehicle Donation Program

    $11,895 to charity

Amounts are as filed and do not add up: a commercial coventurer reports one promotion's whole gross once for each charity that shared in it. A campaign may also name more than one registered charity, in which case it appears on each.

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 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.