SOF Missions
Legal name: Shield of Faith Missions
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 453565213
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Phone
- 813-265-1711
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Christianity
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,962,542
- Expenses
- $1,758,777
- Assets
- $1,856,562
- Liabilities
- $27,400
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DAMON FRIEDMAN (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DAMON FRIEDMAN (PRESIDENT): $151,417 total reported compensation
- DAYNA FRIEDMAN (VICE PRESIDE): $79,583 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Sof Missions is called to empower warriors to find purpose, be resilient, and live well. SOF Missions offers a unique approach to combating the problem of veteran suicide. We provide care through a whole health intradisciplinary method – The Be Resilient Clinic, which is a four-pillar program that addresses the areas of psychological, physical, spiritual, and social wellness. The Be Resilient Clinic is for military members and veterans struggling to overcome the challenges of military service and combat. We bring together providers from psychological, social, spiritual, and physical domains to assess and treat overcome challenges of military service and combat such as PTSD, chronic/acute pain, sleep issues, isolation, stress, and moral injury. Addressing the suicide epidemic wit.
What it reported doing in 2025
Sof missions combats the suicide epidemic by providing restorative whole health medical care to veterans and military service members. The sof missions' be resilient clinics are 1-week medical intensives that bring together 10 veterans and aprox. 20 healthcare providers in an intradisciplinary approach with a focus on psychological, physical, social and spiritual treatments. Providers assess, treat, and work to overcome challenges of military service such as ptsd, mild traumatic brain injury, chronic/acute pain, sleep issues, isolation, stress and moral injury.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 83
- Transparency & Controls: 70
- Accountability: 87
- Sustainability: 50
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 89.6%; rating input score 90
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 85.7%; rating input score 86; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.4%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.06; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 13.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.3% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 16.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 89.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 7 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $1.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $151K · 7 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2017 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 29/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 56/100.