SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION

Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides every surviving child of special operations personnel who lose their lives, to complete a college degree. Our goal is for 100% of the high school graduates in our program to enroll in a post-secondary institution, and complete their degree. We continually aim to beat the national averages for high school graduates enrolling in post- secondary educations and continually beat the national graduation rates from post -secondary educational institutions.

Another goal is to ensure the families of severely wounded special operations service members receive immediate financial assistance while their loved one is recovering in a hospital. Our goal is to provide the financial assistance within 48 hours of notification.

SOWF contacts every family of fallen special operations personnel within 60 days of the fatality. We continue contact throughout the educational process, through counseling, mentoring, and providing study materials, to encourage the children to pursue a post-secondary education. SOWF provides funding for in home tutoring from kindergarten through college graduation, ACT and SAT preparatory courses, college application fees, college visits, college preparatory conferences, internships, and after college career transition.
SOWF continually briefs and stays in contact with special operations leadership, when an incident occurs, they are able to make sure we are aware and in contact with the family.

In order, to ensure that all severely wounded special operators receive funding within 48 hrs of arriving to the hospital, we are immediately notified of a qualifying incident and overnight a check to the injured person's bedside.

SOWF completes a third party actuarial evaluation every four years to identify the fifty-year financial need to support all the programs.
SOF forces are deployed to over 80 countries worldwide at any given time. The 70,000 people assigned to special operations are risking their lives to accomplish our national objectives. Lives will continue to be lost and SOWF must plan for an estimated 70 children to be added to our programs each year. We are continuously updating fundraising strategies and rely solely on private donations for funding needed to support every one of these children.

Our goal is to have a fully funded perpetual endowment to ensure funding for all programs for fifty years and beyond. The amount required is over $185 million. We currently have reached 60% of that goal.
Since 1980, SOWF has consistently shown an ability to contact every family of a fallen special operator and every severely wounded special operator and we will continue to do this moving forward.

Special Operations Warrior Foundation is proud of the 305 children we have seen graduate from post-secondary colleges and vocational schools. Our contact with the children from the time their parent dies until after they have completed their education is what makes the Foundation unique.

With 90% of our high school graduates entering college and over 90% graduating college we are confident our programs are working and we will continue to strive for 100%.

In addition to the scholarships we have provided immediate financial assistance of $2.8 million dollars to over 1,000 severely wounded special operations service members. In the past five years 100% of the financial assistance to the wounded has been delivered within 48 hours.