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THE INDEPENDENCE FUND INC

EIN 26-0322088 CHARLOTTE, NC

Revenue 2023
$6,146,293
Expenses 2023
$9,763,455

Program services were 65.4% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
W30
Classification
1000
Street
412 LOUISE AVE

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

To serve the Warfighter community by providing programs and services that foster the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual independence of our service members, combat Veterans, their Caregivers, families and Allies who served alongside them in combat.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To serve the Warfighter community by providing programs and services that foster the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual independence of our service members, combat Veterans, Caregivers, families and Allies.

  • See Schedule O

    Expenses $6,386,916 · Grants $978,740

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2023

As listed in Part VII of the 2023 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Sarah Verado

    CEO

    Total calculated
    $297,581
    From this org
    $297,581
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $297,581
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $297,581

  • Clark Pennington

    COO

    Total calculated
    $204,495
    From this org
    $204,495
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $204,495
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    not reported
    Nontaxable benefits
    not reported
    Filer's total
    $204,495

  • Dena Lecompt

    CFO

    Total calculated
    $119,958
    From this org
    $119,958
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Malgorzata Reazka

    Chief of Engagements

    Total calculated
    $101,808
    From this org
    $101,808
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • John Bauer

    Chief Strategist

    Total calculated
    $52,071
    From this org
    $52,071
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

  • Grant Campbell

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Jennifer Korn

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Alea Nadeem

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

  • Cheryl Mason

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    10

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2023
    Revenue
    $6,146,293
    Expenses
    $9,763,455
    Contributions
    $6,017,739
    Grants paid
    $978,740
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $12,475,650
    Expenses
    $13,307,657
    Contributions
    $11,592,596
    Grants paid
    $1,178,662

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $8,567,110
    Expenses
    $8,100,266
    Assets (EOY)
    $7,812,789

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $7,884,607
    Expenses
    $5,632,323
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,188,141

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,645,725
    Expenses
    $4,972,717
    Assets (EOY)
    $5,616,879

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $6,457,795
    Expenses
    $9,370,611
    Assets (EOY)
    $4,603,509

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,441,653
    Expenses
    $8,344,698
    Assets (EOY)
    $8,862,174

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $9,130,188
    Expenses
    $11,616,779
    Assets (EOY)
    $11,158,103

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $13,414,286
    Expenses
    $15,023,949
    Assets (EOY)
    $13,760,973

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $623,438
    Assets (EOY)
    $52,488

  • 2010 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $315,690
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,821

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

Where these grants went next →

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2023, the newest we have parsed for this organization.