Kansas · Nonprofit
SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS
SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS (Kansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,645 to it, the largest being Ronald D Deffenbaugh Foundation CO Charles E Wetzler - Trustee ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $428k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $210k
- Net assets
- $187k
What Soar Special Needs does
Mission
Assist and empower families with special needs in their local and faith communities with key resources, impactful activities, and thriving environments, so that they can live beautiful lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Soar provides rest and renewal for families, providing multiple events and services, to serve the needs of individuals with special needs.
$293,222 spentof which $8,675 as grants$55,783 earned by the program78% of program spendingSoar Special Needs day camp offers a week-long Soar Special Needs summer day camp. The camp is for all individuals with special needs ages 3 years old and older to enjoy a variety of fun activities including music, craft, sensory, missions, storytime, and more.
$60,933 spent$126,193 earned by the program16% of program spendingSoar Special Needs r & r events provides monthly free soarly needed r&rs (respite) for individuals with special needs of all ages. R&r events were held at be at various locations throughout the greater kansas city area on monthly basis. R&r events consist of a variety of activities including games, crafts, sensory, movies, worship, a short devotional, and more.
$3,245 spent$25 earned by the program1% of program spendingWonderfully made special needs conference was dedicated to providing the most effective resources for families and ministry leaders. With two conference tracks available and live chats, this conference provided wide range of information and networking opportunities.
$5,671 spent$9,061 earned by the program2% of program spendingChristmas blessings blesses families with special needs with holiday needs. Soar is partnering with outside local organizations to provide our families with christmas blessings.soar with someone special is an annual special prom for participants and caregivers to have an opportunity enjoying a fun time for some music, dance and special treats.
$12,516 spent$10,794 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $375,587.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $141k to $229k (+63%).
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.
55% of SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Stephen J Doc Hunsley
Executive director
Board chair
Jim Lucke
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $60 → $42k.
7 of 19 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 SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS’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
SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
47% 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 SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 74% · 2022 79% · 2023 73% — 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
17% of SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 32% 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
74% of SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS's grant income comes from Kansas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82k 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
SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS has grown faster than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS
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 Kansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS: 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 SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS?
- SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS (Kansas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $209,645 to it, the largest being Ronald D Deffenbaugh Foundation CO Charles E Wetzler - Trustee ($50,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $209,645 in grants to SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS?
- Ronald D Deffenbaugh Foundation CO Charles E Wetzler - Trustee is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOAR SPECIAL NEEDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kansas. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 19 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