Challenge 22 Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 931479215
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Winter Garden, FL, USA
- Phone
- 4077019416
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $122,011
- Expenses
- $49,457
- Assets
- $73,464
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
People named in this filing
- KURT GIES (EXECUTIVE DI)
- AUSTON ARTHER (CHAIR)
- LANA GIES (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Challenge 22 is a Florida-based non-profit with the mission to end suicide among veterans, first responders, and family members. The mission is achieved by raising funds and awareness and connecting those impacted with game-changing resources.
What it reported doing in 2025
End suicide among veterans, first responders, and family members. Raise funds and awareness and connect those impacted with game- changing resources.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 31
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 68
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 20.3%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 50.1%; rating input score 50
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 59.5%; rating input score 95; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.49; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 14.6%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -129.4% per year; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 39.3% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.2% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 20.3% of revenue deployed · 50.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 50/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.