2025-04-11T17:51:05-07:00 2024-12-31 990EZ 2024-01-01 994001564 SHIELD DOWN SHIE 9728379462 8720 BRANDY BRANCH WAY MCKINNEY TX 75071 John Kelty CEO 9728379462 2025-04-11 1 2024 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z X X WWW.SHIELDDOWN.COM X X 501(c)(3) nonprofit 15207 X 7515 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7692 15207 0 0 0 6431 0 186 1081 7698 7509 0 0 7509 0 7509 0 0 0 0 0 7509 0 0 0 7509 Shield Down's primary exempt purpose is to provide support and education to veterans and dependents of service-members who died in service. We do this by: 1) provide peer-to-peer coaching, guidance, resources, and other support to veterans; 2) provide financial grants and other support to dependents of fallen service-members; and 3) provide community education and engagement. Initial Year for "Provide Peer-to-Peer Coaching, Guidance, Resources, and other Support to Veterans": Forming the nonprofit in summer of 2024, we spent the last several months remaining in 2024 on fundraising & putting resources in place to operate. We were able to create connections with 2 veterans who were referred to us, prior to year-end. You'll find that the program service expenses below is one-third of our total 2024 expenses, due to us dividing our total 2024 expenses by 3 and inputting that one-third on each of the 3 program service accomplishments' program service expenses, to reflect the expenses related to standing up everything in the first year to be able to operate and carry out our mission 0 2566 Initial Year for "Provide Financial Grants & other Support to Dependents of Fallen Service Members": Forming the nonprofit in summer of 2024, we spent the last several months remaining in 2024 on fundraising & putting resources in place to operate. We did not have any grant applicants prior to year-end. You'll find that the program service expenses below is one-third of our total 2024 expenses, due to us dividing our total 2024 expenses by 3 and inputting that one-third on each of the 3 program service accomplishments' program service expenses, to reflect the expenses related to standing up everything in the first year to be able to operate and carry out our mission 0 2566 Initial Year for "Community Education & Engagement": Forming the nonprofit in summer of 2024, we spent the last several months remaining in 2024 on fundraising & putting resources in place to operate. We were able to publish multiple pieces of information on our website and social media prior to year-end. You'll find that the program service expenses below is one-third of our total 2024 expenses, due to us dividing our total 2024 expenses by 3 and inputting that one-third on each of the 3 program service accomplishments' program service expenses, to reflect the expenses related to standing up everything in the first year to be able to operate and carry out our mission 0 2566 7698 John Kelty CEO, Board Director 10 0 0 0 Andrew Warner Chairman of the Board of Directors 1 0 0 0 Jeremy Yantes Board Director 1 0 0 0 Zachary Stump Board Director 2 0 0 0 Kyle Hamlin Board Director 1 0 0 0 Laura Kelty Brown CFO, Treasurer 1 0 0 0 Bailie Kelty Secretary 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 TX John Kelty 8720 BRANDY BRANCH WAY MCKINNEY TX 75071 9728379462 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 0 0 0 0 15204 15204 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15204 15204 13998 1206 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15207 X Schedule A, Part II, Line 5(f) Given we formed in June 2024, and announced to the community that we are live in November 2024, our fundraising was 100% in public support, but certain contributions had heavier impacts. I had a $1,000 contribution from a local business supporting, a $5,000 contribution from a local family supporting, and then I put in $8,909.96 of my own money in in-kind (noncash) donations supporting so that we could have resources to standard up the nonprofit and pay for things like attorney fees, digital resources like website and emails, print resources, opening a bank account, etc. -- 100% of our fundraising was through either my own contributions or grassroots efforts. Schedule A, Part II, Line 12 I left this blank as they way I understood the instructions, we didn't receive anything that wasn't either cash donations or in-kind donations. RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 8 In-kind donations for things like attorney fees, website fees, email fees, etc. Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Items that didn't fit the other categories but were expenses, like website fees, email fees, etc. Schedule B, Part I We had 1 family contribute a donation of $5,000 and then I had to spend $8,909.96 of my own money in in-kind (noncash) donations for items needed to stand up the organization, like attorney fees, digital resources like website, email, etc., print resources, etc. -- all fundraising was 100% grassroots effort and supported by the public.