Special Ops Survivors

Analysis

Special Ops Survivors is a registered charity in United States, based in El Dorado Hills, CA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 2003, 23 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Special Ops Survivors reported income of $113k and spending of $152k, spending 135% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $219k to $113k (-48%), an average of -15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income dropped by 66%. Over the whole period it spent 131% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Special Ops Survivors sits at the 35th percentile: it is larger than about 35% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 42nd percentile within CA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Anderson Area Association of Senior Citizen Organizations ($113k), Hope Coalition ($113k) and Faith in Action of Marathon County Inc ($113k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. At year end it held assets of $69k against liabilities of $142k, net assets of -$73k.