New York · Nonprofit
HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC
HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,404,475 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,185,500). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 180
- Grants received
- $35M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Head Strong Project Inc does
Mission
The head strong project (headstrong) is a non-profit organization founded in 2012 that provides barrier-free, stigma-free ptsd treatment to veterans, transitioning service members, and family members connected to their care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The headstrong project is delivering measurable, life-changing results for veterans, service members, and their families. In 2025, headstrong provided over 52,000 individual therapy sessions to more than 2,900 unique clients 70% of which were delivered via telehealth, ensuring accessibility for clients in rural, remote, and underserved communities across all 50 states. Headstrong's goal is to help our clients "triumph over trauma" by providing them with effective mental health treatment.see continuation on schedule o.
$11,933,211 spent$991,380 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,933,211.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2021 to 2022, from $9.1M to $18M (+98%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 2% · 2020 6% · 2021 7% · 2022 3% · 2023 5% · 2024 3% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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
Daniel Kaepernik
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Paul Casey
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018, and between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $596k → $3.5M.
30 of 180 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 180 funders by total. 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
HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
58% 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 HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 17% · 2019 39% · 2020 27% · 2021 27% · 2022 69% · 2023 21% — 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.
How long its funders stay
30% of HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 33 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC: 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 HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC?
- HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC (New York) receives grants from 180 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,404,475 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($10,185,500). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC have?
- IRS filings report 180 organizations giving $35,404,475 in grants to HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $10,185,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEAD STRONG PROJECT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 180 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing