Texas · Nonprofit
OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION
OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,729,059 to it, the largest being FOSFORO FOUNDATION INC ($562,150). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $4.8M
What Operation Red Wings Foundation does
Mission
Operation Red Wings Foundation (orwf) (formerly: lone survivor foundation) is a nonprofit organization which seeks to restore, empower, and renew hope for our wounded service members and their families through health, wellness, and therapeutic support.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Program
Orwf accomplishes its objectives through the following initiatives: conducting retreats at various facilities that support wounded service members and their families affected by port-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) and serious combat injury. Emphasizes the use of natural settings and outdoor activities to heal and empower wounded service therapy opportunities. Reduce the wounded service members need for narcotic pain management; stabilize and enhance family structures and relationships through education, counseling, support, and inspiration using short-term retreats and advocacy programs. Identify, connnect with, and establish therapeutic support for wounded service member families.
$1,674,856 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,674,856.
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 $6.9M to $5.4M (−22%).
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 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
76% of OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $213k → $116k.
16 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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
OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
53% 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 OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 55% · 2019 44% · 2020 44% · 2021 27% · 2022 23% · 2023 22% — 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
26% of OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $679k arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,448 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2022
Organizations like OPERATION RED WINGS 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
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 OPERATION RED WINGS 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 OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION?
- OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,729,059 to it, the largest being FOSFORO FOUNDATION INC ($562,150). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $1,729,059 in grants to OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION?
- FOSFORO FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $562,150 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION RED WINGS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 56 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