Florida · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 316 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,163,081 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,071,000). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 316
- Grants received
- $31M
- Net assets
- $202M
What Special Operations Warrior Foundation does
Mission
To ensure comprehensive educational support including, but not limited to, academic advocacy, preschool and private school grants, tutoring, support for students with disabilities, college readiness programs, full financial assistance for up to a four-year post-secondary degree, access to our college to career transitions program, a commitment to cover educational costs for the surviving children of special operations personnel whose spouses perish while the special operator is actively serving, while providing a variety of other practical programs and services. The foundation also provides immediate financial grants to severely combat-wounded, ill, and injured special operations personnel who require hospitalization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarship grants: the foundation employs a proactive approach to the academic success of our students, with an intentional focus on their completion of a post-secondary degree. In 2025, 283 children attended colleges or other post-secondary educational institutions and the foundation provided approximately $6.8 million to the children attending college. Our grants include funding for tuition, room and board, books, tutoring, computers, fees, transportation, and personal expenses. At december 31, 2025 there were 2,015 children who survived 1,497 special operations personnel, spouses of actively serving special operations personnel and medal of honor recipients who gave their lives in patriotic service to their country. Of these 2,015 children, 613 have graduated college. (continued on schedule o.)the foundation retained ernst & young llp to prepare an actuarial valuation for funding purposes to summarize the present value of the projected need of the scholarship program as of december 31, 2022. The actuarial valuation incorporated both current and projected future beneficiaries of the program and provided information regarding alternative patterns and sensitivity of discount…
$17,315,699 spentof which $6,786,430 as grants80% of program spendingEducational advocacy, tutoring and private schooling: academic and career advocacy services are available to all eligible children beginning at a young age. By setting the expectation of apost-secondary education, our students begin setting their academic and professional goals from a young age. The foundation is there to ensure that each student is on track to reach those goals. The foundation provided educational advocacy to almost 1,200 children that have not yet reached college age or started their post-secondary education. 452 of these children were in middle and high school and received.(continued on schedule o).academic planning materials and started preparing to begin their post secondary education. In home tutoring was available to all children from kindergarten age through college graduation. The foundation also funded visits to colleges for high school seniors. The foundation conducts an annual college preparation conference/seminar for our high school juniors and seniors. The students are lodged on a college campus, coached in college finances, social responsibilities, taught how to write a college admissions essay, learn about expectations from college professors, and…
$4,140,122 spentof which $3,710,333 as grants19% of program spendingSupport to special operations wounded personnel: support to special operations wounded personnel: special operators are deployed in over 80 countries every day. One of the most difficultchallenges that special operations families may face is the immediate financial burden when their loved one is hospitalized with severe combat wounds, injuries, or illness. Since 2006, Special Operations Warrior Foundation has provided immediate financial support to over 1,337 severely wounded, ill, and injured special operators requiring hospitalization. In 2025, the foundation provided direct financial support to 28 severely combat wounded or injured special operationspeople and their families. (continued on schedule o). These funds are used to reduce the burden of unexpected expenses such as airfare, child care, pet care, rental cars, etc. Additionally, sowf sends the hospitalized service member an ipad to facilitate connectivity with friends and family.
$312,532 spentof which $169,318 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $21,768,353.
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 $257M to $295M (+15%).
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 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Clayton M Hutmacher
President/CEO
Board chair
Raymond Tony Thomas Iii
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 76 funders to 123 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $4.7M.
51 of 316 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 316 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
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 11 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 11 funders to its left
61% 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 SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 17% · 2019 20% · 2020 12% · 2021 63% · 2022 8% · 2023 12% — 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
44% of SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Florida, across 41 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 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
SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,794 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,794 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION?
- SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION (Florida) receives grants from 316 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,163,081 to it, the largest being MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC ($5,071,000). 172 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 316 organizations giving $31,163,081 in grants to SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION, 172 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION?
- MORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,071,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 316 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