California · Nonprofit
WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION
WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,496,642 to it, the largest being THE DOYLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,508,107). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 92
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $22M
What Warrior Foundation Freedom Station does
Mission
To be the leading force in assisting, honoring and supporting the military men and women who have so bravely served and sacrificed for our country. WFFS is committed to supporting warriors in a variety of ways, providing quality-of-life items and numerous support services designed to assist them and their families during recovery.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Hospital assistance Warrior Foundation Freedom Station provides assistance to the warrior and his or her family immediately upon the warriors arrival at naval medical center san diego, or camp pendleton hospital. The foundation provides clothing and other necessary items of comfort to aid in the warriors recovery from a sometimes lengthy and significant recovery process. The foundation pays for the warriors family members travel costs to be in san diego to assist their warriors recovery process.
$791,869 spent34% of program spendingRehabilitation and quality of life warrior foundation funds numerous programs to aid the warriors recovery. This includes funding several athletic/sports teams, providing necessary aids e.g. Service dogs, special prosthetics, modified wheelchairs, funding career and educational programs, and funding other medical and rehabilitation services. The foundation also runs an annual radio-thon with the proceeds specifically targeted toward sending hundreds of wounded heroes home each year for the holidays.
$791,870 spent34% of program spendingFreedom station the facility is a self-contained and gated transitional housing facility, owned and operated by the foundation, with eight bungalow style homes and one apartment building with four separate apartments. The facility was established in 2011, with close cooperation and guidance from medical personnel at naval medical center san diego. Freedom station provides temporary lodging facilities, as well as educational and career guidance to our nations injured nad disabled military heroes who are medically retired or discharged. We will aid them as they begin the transition from defenders of freedom to productive members of americas civilian work force. Freedom station will also enable personal interaction between our military warriors and uniquely qualified volunteers and professionals who can assist them.
$751,764 spent$270,400 earned by the program32% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,335,503.
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 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $20M (+27%).
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.
75% of WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Sandy Lehmkuhler
CEO/Founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $142k → $1.1M.
24 of 92 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 92 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
WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
38% 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 WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 30% · 2021 26% · 2022 35% · 2023 46% — 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
37% of WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
57% of WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION: 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 WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION?
- WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION (California) receives grants from 92 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,496,642 to it, the largest being THE DOYLE FOUNDATION INC ($1,508,107). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION have?
- IRS filings report 92 organizations giving $5,496,642 in grants to WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION?
- THE DOYLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,508,107 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WARRIOR FOUNDATION FREEDOM STATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 92 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