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IRAQ STAR INC

IRAQ STAR INC (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,454 to it, the largest being Nape Expo Charities Fund ($155,918). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$30k
Funders on record
12
Grants received
$396k
Net assets
$-255255
4/12 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Iraq Star Inc does

Mission

Provide free reconstructive surgery to recently wounded and disfigured active service and veteran warriors.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. None

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($162k) Expenses 100 ($250k) Net assets 100 ($555k)2018 Revenue 96 ($156k) Expenses 100 ($250k) Net assets 91 ($506k)2019 Revenue 83 ($134k) Expenses 77 ($192k) Net assets 81 ($449k)2020 Revenue 59 ($95k) Expenses 66 ($166k) Net assets -13 ($-70761)2021 Revenue 65 ($106k) Expenses 66 ($166k) Net assets -24 ($-130794)2022 Revenue 9 ($15k) Expenses 60 ($150k) Net assets -48 ($-265614)2023 Revenue 143 ($232k) Expenses 72 ($181k) Net assets 42 ($234k)2024 Revenue 11 ($18k) Expenses 64 ($160k) Net assets -46 ($-256355)2025 Revenue 19 ($30k) Expenses 12 ($29k) Net assets -46 ($-255255)
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Revenue (19)Expenses (12)Net assets (-46)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $234k to $43k (−82%).

$555k
$506k
$449k
$378k
$320k
$183k
$234k
$43k
$11k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of IRAQ STAR INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,248 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$88k
’17
−$94k
’18
−$58k
’19
−$71k
’20
−$60k
’21
−$135k
’22
$51k
’23
−$141k
’24
$1k
’25
14
months of
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.

20172018201920232025
Listed22221
Joined·····
No longer listed·····
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose $29k → $156k.

4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 IRAQ STAR INC’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

IRAQ STAR INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

68% 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 IRAQ STAR INC.

39%
largest funder
72%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 40% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 75% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.

“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

20% of IRAQ STAR INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

IRAQ STAR INC draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.

MN
OR
NJ
CA
CO
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $90k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

IRAQ STAR INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 6,752 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−19% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,752 health nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like IRAQ STAR 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for IRAQ STAR 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 IRAQ STAR INC?
IRAQ STAR INC (California) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $396,454 to it, the largest being Nape Expo Charities Fund ($155,918). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does IRAQ STAR INC have?
IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $396,454 in grants to IRAQ STAR INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of IRAQ STAR INC?
Nape Expo Charities Fund is the largest funder on record, with $155,918 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like IRAQ STAR INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 12 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