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SOLDIER STRONG INC

SOLDIER STRONG INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,769,464 to it, the largest being THE GRAHAM RAHAL FOUNDATION ($1,204,395). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.3M
Funders on record
49
Grants received
$3.8M
Net assets
$-62197
25/49 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Soldier Strong Inc does

Mission

To provide support and opportunities to returning soldiers and military personnel to assist them in returning to civilian life and workforce. To provide basic essentials to the men and women of u.s. Armed forces serving on the battlefields for the united states of america. To provide funding and support for exo-skeletal suit purchase and research. To provide funding and support for veterans and servicemembers suffering from ptsd.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Soldier strong has raised funds and partnered with other not-for-profit organizations and corporate sponsors to collect and buy items needed for front line troops on duty overseas, and to ship those items where needed the most. The organization has also raised funds to go towards the purchase of exo-skeletal suits and equipment to be given to returning wounded troops to help them integrate back into society.

    $1,333,048 spentof which $1,074,378 as grants$1,227,148 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,333,048.

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 ($851k) Expenses 100 ($850k) Net assets 100 ($51k)2018 Revenue 243 ($2.1M) Expenses 206 ($1.8M) Net assets 716 ($366k)2019 Revenue 196 ($1.7M) Expenses 207 ($1.8M) Net assets 451 ($231k)2020 Revenue 82 ($697k) Expenses 86 ($732k) Net assets 384 ($196k)2021 Revenue 138 ($1.2M) Expenses 117 ($994k) Net assets 741 ($379k)2022 Revenue 233 ($2.0M) Expenses 253 ($2.1M) Net assets 395 ($202k)2023 Revenue 70 ($593k) Expenses 83 ($707k) Net assets 202 ($104k)2024 Revenue 153 ($1.3M) Expenses 174 ($1.5M) Net assets -122 ($-62197)
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Revenue (153)Expenses (174)Net assets (-122)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 2022 to 2023, from $1.2M to $273k (−78%).

$75k
$429k
$282k
$238k
$449k
$1.2M
$273k
$160k
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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

94% of SOLDIER STRONG INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 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.

$2k
’17
$315k
’18
−$96k
’19
−$35k
’20
$183k
’21
−$161k
’22
−$114k
’23
−$176k
’24
1.2
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.

Chief executive

Christina Stroback

Executive director

Board chair

Christopher Meek

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed101388991010
Joined·+4+2+0+1+0+1+0
No longer listed·1700000
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $108k → $653k.

14 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 SOLDIER STRONG INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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

SOLDIER STRONG INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

84% 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 SOLDIER STRONG INC.

32%
largest funder
66%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 53% · 2019 28% · 2020 36% · 2021 43% · 2022 21% · 2023 53% — 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

27% of SOLDIER STRONG INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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

SOLDIER STRONG INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 17 states in all.

IL
WI
MI
NY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
TX
FL

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SOLDIER STRONG INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like SOLDIER STRONG 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 Connecticut

Nationally

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 3%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 25 states

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
HI
MS
AL
FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds SOLDIER STRONG INC?
SOLDIER STRONG INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,769,464 to it, the largest being THE GRAHAM RAHAL FOUNDATION ($1,204,395). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SOLDIER STRONG INC have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $3,769,464 in grants to SOLDIER STRONG INC, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SOLDIER STRONG INC?
THE GRAHAM RAHAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,204,395 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SOLDIER STRONG INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 49 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