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Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation
Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,000 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.1M
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $222k
- Net assets
- $6.2M
What Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation does
Programs
GSOF co-hosts (with U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command) the annual Special Air Warfare Symposium in Ft. Walton Beach each year. It has brought together Air Force, Army, Maritime, and Partner Nation SOF leaders and personnel to discuss critical issues to special air warfare. The 2025 event attracted more than 1200 attendees.
$413,358 spentGSOF held the Modern Warfare Week event at Ft. Liberty a total of four times. It features senior Army SOF leaders, young officers and NCOs, as well as industry and academic experts. The theme and agenda are typically set by the Army command to address critical issues to the U.S. Army SOF Enterprise. GSOF also incorporated live-fire demos at a nearby range complex. The 2025 event attracted more than 1200 attendees. A nearby range complex hosts GSOF and its Corporate Partners for live-fire demonstrations.
$376,655 spentSOF Week is an annual conference for the international SOF community to learn, connect, and honor its members. Held in Tampa, FL, the event was jointly sponsored by U.S. Special Operations Command and the Global SOF Foundation. It included an exhibition hall, organized by functional areas; extensive programming, to include senior keynote speakers, professional development seminars, industry engagements, business matchmaking, and nonprofit interests; and the USSOCOM Annual Awards Ceremony and Dinner. The 2025 event attracted more than 19,000 attendees.
$1,974,135 spentThe Indo-Pacific necessitates a rapid shift toward a robust, localized defense industrial base capable of mass-producing affordable autonomous systems and precision weapons. This symposium exists to unite senior SOF leadership and industry stakeholders in Honolulu to secure this vital region through modernization and strengthened partnerships.
$605,981 spent
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $4.5M (+215%).
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Stuart Bradin
Director & CEO
Board chair
Peter Bergen
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $10k → $206k.
2 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 93% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 90% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 97% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
93% of Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Florida, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $206k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $120k on record.
- Department of Defense$120k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation?
- Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation (Florida) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $222,000 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $222,000 in grants to Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Global Special Operations Forces Foundation Corporation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 3 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing