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OPERATION HELP INC

EIN 39-1711703 HUDSON, WI

Revenue 2024
$773,840
Expenses 2024
$573,104

Program services were 82.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1000
Street
1830 HANLEY RD STE 100

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

Operation HELPs mission is to help residents of St. Croix County maintain stable living situations, emotional well-being, and personal dignity when they experience temporary financial hardships.

  • Operation HELPs mission is to help residents of St. Croix County maintain stable living situations, emotional well-being, and personal dignity when they experience temporary financial hardships. Services include rent, utility, and car repair payment assistance; a resource center providing basic need items; diaper bank; temporary emergency shelter; budgeting classes; and an annual Christmas for Kids program.

    Expenses $471,570

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.

  • TIMOTHY PUFFER

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $71,736
    From this org
    $71,736
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • BJORN NESVOLD

    CHAIRMAN

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • WESLEY CAINE

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • MARG WOPAT

    ASST TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4

  • DIANA BERG

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • MARY BLANCHARD

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

  • CHRISTINE CARUFEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • RACHEL DAIX

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • JEAN SCHNEIDER

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • HEIDI BECKEN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    6

  • STEVE WILCOX

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3

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
    $773,840
    Expenses
    $573,104
    Contributions
    $773,389
    Grants paid
    $386,568
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,933,571
    Expenses
    $538,045
    Contributions
    $1,996,570
    Grants paid
    $386,511
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,761,133
    Expenses
    $535,042
    Contributions
    $1,790,505
    Grants paid
    $377,670

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
    $751,750
    Expenses
    $483,767
    Assets (EOY)
    $545,957

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $489,113
    Expenses
    $483,892
    Assets (EOY)
    $279,754

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $372,123
    Expenses
    $336,865
    Assets (EOY)
    $264,060

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $337,913
    Expenses
    $257,884
    Assets (EOY)
    $228,802

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $268,746
    Expenses
    $247,459
    Assets (EOY)
    $148,773

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $267,855
    Expenses
    $208,086
    Assets (EOY)
    $127,486

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $199,400
    Expenses
    $204,008
    Assets (EOY)
    $67,717

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $204,186
    Expenses
    $187,067
    Assets (EOY)
    $73,715

  • 2013 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $154,779
    Expenses
    $168,133
    Assets (EOY)
    $56,226

  • 2012 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $150,713
    Expenses
    $158,097
    Assets (EOY)
    $69,471

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

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.

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