Special Operations Quiet Professionals Foundation Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844742262
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Tampa, FL, USA
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Mental Health Disorders
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $48,780
- Expenses
- $54,938
- Assets
- $829
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
People named in this filing
- Cary C Harbaugh (Chairman of the Board)
- Thomas G Gates (Vice-Chairman of the Board)
- Arthur R Welhoelter (Secretary 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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The purpose of SOWGF is to assist members of the Special Operations Forces of the U.S. military who were wounded injured or are suffering from illnesses acquired while serving our country in their recovery rehabilitation and transition to civilian life. SOWGF provides a therapeutic networking program that connects the warriors with medical and therapeutic services and career transition assistance in a retreat format utilizing golf and its healing power as its core activity. Each retreat is held at a golf venue has 6-10 participating wounded warriors and last for 5-7 days. SOWGF puts a particular emphasis on career transition by using benefactors from the business sector to sponsor and mentor each participating warrior. Physical and behavioral health professionals will be on site to provide short term therapy and assessment resulting in a long- term plan for post retreat care for each participating SOF warrior.
What it reported doing in 2024
SOWGFs 2024 Tour of Tampa Bay Spring Retreat was held from April 28 to May 3 and attended by six Wounded SOF Warriors and 5 business Mentors. The golf venues were Tampa Palms CC Hunters Green CC Cheval CC and TPC Tampa Bay. Each morning focused on golf instruction from PGA Master Pro Jex Wilson and Hunters Green Pro Nick Boudreau and each afternoon included a playing lesson that took place on the course 9 holes with the pros and 9 holes with their mentors and peers. The business Mentors included a practicing attorney Not for Profit founder CEO Board Member consultant Bushnell Golf Regional Rep and business entrepreneur and a restaurant owner operator developer. The Mentors were chosen to match with the indicated interests of the participating Warriors. In conjunction with the Retreat on April 30 SOWGF held its 2024 Spring Golf Classic at Hunters Green CC which included the Wounded Warriors Mentors Therapist SOWGF Alumni Warriors and Donors as players
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Revenue has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 99
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 30
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
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: -12.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.02; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 29.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 37th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -46.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $54K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 28/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.