Illinois · Nonprofit
OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC
OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,755 to it, the largest being GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ($93,329). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $512k
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Operation Support Our Troops - America Inc does
Mission
To support the morale and well-being of american forces by providing comfort, resources, and education to them and their families while they are deployed and after their return. To provide grants to veterans who are in need of one-time financial assistance. Leap of faith seminar for gold star families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Sent care packages of items that are not readily available to our troops in deployed locations, includes letters, cards, notes of support from the community at large. Osot-america provided one-time grants to veterans who are in need of financial assistance.
$1,134,352 spentof which $4,346 as grants99% of program spendingSupport other organizations with their similar purpose of supporting our troops in harms way and supporting returning veterans.
Compensation of current officers, directors, trustees, and key employees
Depreciation of non-investment property
$7,660 spent1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,142,012.
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 2024 to 2025, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+26%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Board chair
Gordon Callison
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $43k → $70k.
11 of 31 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 OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
87% 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 SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 69% · 2019 52% · 2020 40% · 2021 49% · 2022 25% · 2023 36% — 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
29% of OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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 SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC draws 85% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $233k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 497 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 497 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA 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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC?
- OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC (Illinois) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $511,755 to it, the largest being GREATER GOOD CHARITIES ($93,329). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $511,755 in grants to OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC?
- GREATER GOOD CHARITIES is the largest funder on record, with $93,329 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OPERATION SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - AMERICA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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