Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
261441650
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2007
Location
Long Island City, NY, USA
Phone
6469055610
Rating
84
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Health - General and Rehabilitative N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$30,897,245
Expenses
$29,716,647
Assets
$73,297,030
Liabilities
$250,002

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

27 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • ANNE MARIE DOUGHERTY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)

Highest reported compensation

  • ANNE MARIE DOUGHERTY (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $589,930 total reported compensation
  • TODD DUSO (CFO/COO): $448,662 total reported compensation
  • MARGARET HARRELL (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $440,406 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Find, fund, shape, and accelerate equitable solutions that help our impacted veterans, service members, their families, and their caregivers thrive.

What it reported doing in 2025

The foundation maintains an active national partner network designed to increase the collaborative capacity of local communities serving veterans, service members, and military families. Through its got your 6 network more than 400 partner organizations operating in all 50 states the foundation builds a coordinated ecosystem that moves resources, knowledge, and relationships to where they are needed most. Partners receive capacity-building support, access to peer networks, and opportunities for cross-sector collaboration that amplify individual program impact. Through special events, the foundation raises awareness about the issues veterans, families, and caregivers face, to honor their service and raise funds to support them. These events are central to the foundation's strategy of bridging the military-civilian divide and building a broader culture of sustained support for those who served.in 2025, the got your 6 network collectively reached approximately 2.3 million americans. In addition, the foundation awarded $1.9 million in collaborative funding bringing its cumulative collaborative funding to more than $9.7 million since 2006.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 98% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 70% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 77
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 95
  • Sustainability: 50
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 81.6%; rating input score 82
  • Program expense ratio: 84.4%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $10.87 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.4%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • Independent consultant: Pass
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 98.2%; rating input score 98; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.8%; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.47; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9.4%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 12.8% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.2% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 19.5% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 81.6% of revenue deployed · 84.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 19 of 19 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $25.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $590K · 27 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2.6M reported
  • Consistency: 38 of 39 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2011 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 112 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 105 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 35/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 40/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.