Minnesota · Nonprofit
SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS
SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,750 to it, the largest being LABORERS' INT'L UNION LOCAL 563 ($5,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $67k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Shoot for the Troops does
Mission
To raise and donate funds to families of deployed services members to ease the financial stress while their family is serving out their deployment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To raise and donate funds to families of deployed services members to ease the financial stress while their family is serving out their deployment.
$69,296 spentof which $45,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,296.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $24k to $11k (−54%).
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.
0% of SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $500.
From the IRS filings of SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS’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
SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
74% 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 SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 10,305 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,305 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
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.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS: 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 SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS?
- SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS (Minnesota) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,750 to it, the largest being LABORERS' INT'L UNION LOCAL 563 ($5,750). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,750 in grants to SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS?
- LABORERS' INT'L UNION LOCAL 563 is the largest funder on record, with $5,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHOOT FOR THE TROOPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 3 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