Wounded Warriors

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
861336741
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
Location
The Woodlands, TX, USA
Phone
5612688114
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Military, Veterans' Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$571,632
Expenses
$702,604
Assets
$227,922
Liabilities
$282

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DILLON PARKES (PRESIDENT)
  • SHARIKA PARKES (VICE PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • DILLON PARKES (PRESIDENT): $81,545 total reported compensation
  • LYNN RAHMAN (TREASURER): $31,700 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Wounded warriors provides comprehensive support and assistance to veterans in need with a focus on helping them achieve long-term stability and success by providing them with educational benefits, mental health support, family support, career development, and financial assistance for housing and basic needs.

What it reported doing in 2025

Wounded warriors facilitated community outreach programs aimed at providing support to veterans and their families facing hardship, including housing stability assistance, utilities, transportation, and emergency living expenses when medically or service-related issues were documented. Financial assistance is not provided directly to individual veterans; all payments are made to third-party providers (such as landlords, utility companies, transportation providers, or other vendors) upon receipt and review of required supporting documentation, including invoices, agreements, and itemized expense details. Approximately 972 individuals were directly or indirectly supported through the organization's veteran and family support, community outreach program.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 69% of its reported program spending out as grants.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 65
  • Transparency & Controls: 94
  • Accountability: 67
  • Sustainability: 19
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.8%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 64.1%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -22.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.32; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 72; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.1%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 49.3% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -4.4% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.8% of revenue deployed · 64.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $450K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $82K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 4 filing years from 2022 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 6 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 4 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.