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OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC

EIN 43-0971560 KANSAS CITY, MO

Revenue 2023
$19,549,304
Expenses 2023
$17,722,798

Program services were 84.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
B20
Classification
1000
Street
3039 TROOST AVE

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).

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.

  • JAMEY BERTRAM

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.1 related

  • WENDY HILL

    VICE-CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.1 related

  • RICHARD WINSTON

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1 + 0.1 related

  • NATHAN BENJAMIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.1 related

  • LESLEY ELWELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CHRIS GOODE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.1 related

  • SPENCER HARDWICK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KATHRYN HARVEL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SMITH HOLLAND

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.1 related

  • DEBBIE HOUSH

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BRIDGETTE JONES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.1 related

  • JOLIE JUSTUS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.2 related

  • ERIC KELLER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • KRISTA KLAUS

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • SHERRI LATHROP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JON OTTO

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.1 related

  • SABINA SAFDER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • BETH SOUKUP

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.2 related

  • TANNER WYCOFF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5 + 0.1 related

  • MARY ESSELMAN

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $207,746
    From this org
    $198,995
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,751
    Hours/week
    60 + 3 related

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $198,995
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $8,751
    Filer's total
    $207,746

  • KEVIN BOYER

    CFO/COO/ TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $94,300
    From this org
    $61,994
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $32,306
    Hours/week
    12 + 4 related

  • BERTA SAILER

    FOUNDER

    Total calculated
    $297,124
    From this org
    $280,856
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $16,268
    Hours/week
    4

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $280,856
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $16,268
    Filer's total
    $297,124

  • KIMMIKKA BROWN

    DIR OF HEALTH/QUALITY

    Total calculated
    $123,501
    From this org
    $114,518
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,983
    Hours/week
    40

  • JANIE BISHOP-DEEGAN

    SCHOOL AGE PROGRAMMING

    Total calculated
    $120,364
    From this org
    $101,053
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $19,311
    Hours/week
    50

  • MARY MULKEY

    DIR OF EDUCATION

    Total calculated
    $124,878
    From this org
    $120,499
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,379
    Hours/week
    50

The first 25 listed. 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 — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $19,549,304
    Expenses
    $17,722,798
    Contributions
    $15,054,293
    Grants paid
    $576,463
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $17,987,372
    Expenses
    $16,219,873
    Contributions
    $13,057,757
    Grants paid
    $251,499

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.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

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

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2023 return

Declared as related by

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 10 September 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.