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SHIELD 616 INC

SHIELD 616 INC (Colorado) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,809,251 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,436,528). 27 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
$1.8M
Funders on record
69
Grants received
$5.8M
Net assets
$851k
27/69 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Shield 616 Inc does

Mission

Shield 616, inc. Provides all-day rifle protection to first responders nationwide who sacrificially serve. We strive to bridge the gap between them and their communities through support and prayer.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. In 2024, we continued our partnership with angel armor to provide the highest quality all-day rifle rated protective armor. We were able to provide 658 complete sets of amor with rifle plates to police, sheriff, and fire agencies. Additionally, we provided 381 sets of rifle plates and 88 helmets to first responders in need. Thanks to our fundraising efforts across the country, our donated armor is being used in almost 400 agencies in 33 states.

    $2,129,124 spentof which $1,684,809 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,129,124.

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 ($918k) Expenses 100 ($949k) Net assets 100 ($49k)2018 Revenue 302 ($2.8M) Expenses 224 ($2.1M) Net assets 1877 ($912k)2019 Revenue 432 ($4.0M) Expenses 462 ($4.4M) Net assets 1527 ($742k)2020 Revenue 216 ($2.0M) Expenses 226 ($2.1M) Net assets 1207 ($586k)2021 Revenue 279 ($2.6M) Expenses 184 ($1.7M) Net assets 2890 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 281 ($2.6M) Expenses 260 ($2.5M) Net assets 3129 ($1.5M)2023 Revenue 277 ($2.5M) Expenses 281 ($2.7M) Net assets 2875 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 199 ($1.8M) Expenses 250 ($2.4M) Net assets 1752 ($851k)
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Revenue (199)Expenses (250)Net assets (1752)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 2017 to 2018, from $89k to $1.1M (+1153%).

$89k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.1M
$1.5M
$1.6M
$1.5M
$921k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

98% of SHIELD 616 INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$31k
’17
$644k
’18
−$419k
’19
−$156k
’20
$817k
’21
$116k
’22
−$123k
’23
−$546k
’24
3.4
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.

Board chair

Steve Phillips

Chair / bod

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed67895556
Joined·+2+2+2+0+0+0+1
No longer listed·1114000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $25k → $304k.

22 of 69 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 SHIELD 616 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 69 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

SHIELD 616 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 SHIELD 616 INC.

42%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 77% · 2019 41% · 2020 50% · 2021 59% · 2022 54% · 2023 28% — 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

29% of SHIELD 616 INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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

65% of SHIELD 616 INC'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 $2.0M that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from funders outside Colorado, across 16 states.

MT
MN
NY
OR
OH
NJ
UT
CO
MO
DE
AZ
KS
OK
GA
TX
FL

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

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Colorado out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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

SHIELD 616 INC has grown faster than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−30% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SHIELD 616 INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 5%Fundraising 5%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHIELD 616 INC?
SHIELD 616 INC (Colorado) receives grants from 69 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,809,251 to it, the largest being NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC ($2,436,528). 27 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 SHIELD 616 INC have?
IRS filings report 69 organizations giving $5,809,251 in grants to SHIELD 616 INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SHIELD 616 INC?
NATL CHRISTIAN CHARITABLE FDN INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,436,528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHIELD 616 INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 69 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