South Dakota · Nonprofit
OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION
OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,291 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $540k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $447k
What Objective Zero Foundation does
Mission
Connecting the military community to mental health and wellness resources and to a network of peer and civilian support Pathfinders to prevent suicide through the Objective Zero App.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Objective Zero invested $300,586 in continued development of the Objective Zero App to enhance stability improve user experience and expand evidence-informed tools for service members veterans caregivers and military families. It devoted $140,560 in program salaries to support core program implementation including peer engagement safety monitoring and coordinated resource navigation. The organization also used $20,454 to operate its HubSpot CRM system which managed user data supported communication workflows and strengthened Objective Zeros capacity to connect individuals with timely support.
$519,465 spent100% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $519,465.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2019 to 2020, from $55k to $322k (+482%).
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: 2020 0% · 2021 9% · 2022 11% · 2023 14% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 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
Elizabeth Mercado
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $168k.
8 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 16 of 17 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
OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
96% 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 OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 90% · 2019 100% · 2020 71% · 2021 60% · 2022 71% · 2023 89% — 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
20% of OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 29% 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
65% of OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION'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 $509k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside South Dakota, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $943k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,769 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,769 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION
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 South Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION: 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 OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION?
- OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION (South Dakota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,452,291 to it, the largest being THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($400,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $1,452,291 in grants to OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION?
- THE INDEPENDENT CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OBJECTIVE ZERO FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Dakota. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 17 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