South Carolina · Nonprofit
SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC
SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,846,397 to it, the largest being HUMAN INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ($502,900). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Special Operators Transition Foundation Inc does
Mission
The special operators transition foundation ("sotf") assists special operation forces veterans transition from the military into their next successful career.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization's initial focus is to serve exclusively the special operations community, and associated personnel, who have faced combat and high-risk missions. Services and grants provided vary by case but include employment transition services, paid internships, cooperative education and family stabilization support. Finding a job in today's market is competitive and difficult enough for the average individual seeking employment, but it is even harder for service members who have spent the last decade deploying to combat zones. Additionally, for those transitioning from years of service with a special operation unit, finding a position in today's business world brings certain challenges not ordinarily faced by civilians. However, special operations veterans have a significant advantage over their civilian counterparts. The fundamental difference found in special operations veterans is that they embody and demonstrate agility by anticipating change, initiating action, generating confidence, liberating thinking, and evaluating results.
$1,418,156 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,418,156.
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 2018 to 2019, from $336k to $773k (+130%).
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: 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Mark Whaling
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $580k → $104k.
15 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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 OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
54% 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 OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 71% · 2019 25% · 2020 23% · 2021 31% · 2022 32% · 2023 19% — 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
22% of SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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 OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside South Carolina, across 21 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $628k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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 OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC's revenue grew 46% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION 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 South Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC: 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 SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC?
- SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,846,397 to it, the largest being HUMAN INVESTMENT FOUNDATION ($502,900). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $1,846,397 in grants to SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC?
- HUMAN INVESTMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $502,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL OPERATORS TRANSITION FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 62 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