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Aocds Memorial Fund

The corporation is organized for the public purpose of assisting peace officers, their dependents, and survivors of peace officers by providing financial assistance and making other charitable donations.

$282k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0180% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$603kCrime & Legal$151kPhilanthropy$63kHuman Services$39kYouth Development$10kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $247,430, the rows itemized in this filing. The $281,768 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,338 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $145k
$21,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$747k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS$85,525
CALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICERS M$59,622
NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFC$32,429
Individual grant recipient$21,000
Individual grant recipient$18,077
ALADS CARES$14,259
STAR & SHIELD FOUNDATION$10,759
LA POLICE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE$5,759
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $86k → 10%RCDS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%CPOMF: $43k → 12%SEBA CHARITY FUND: $10k → 14%STAR & SHIELD FOUNDATION: $11k → 14%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFC: $32k → 14%NATIONAL FALLEN FIREFIGHTERS: $21k → 6%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $60k → 10%RCDS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%CPOMF: $43k → 12%STAR & SHIELD FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFC: $29k → 14%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $45k → 10%RCDS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $14k → 11%CPOMF: $43k → 12%LA POLICE PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $6k → 14%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $41k → 10%CPOMF: $40k → 12%ALADS CARES: $19k → 14%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $37k → 10%CPOMF: $38k → 12%ALADS CARES: $14k → 14%BRAD GATES MEMORIAL: $18k → 10%CPOMF: $36k → 12%ALADS CARES: $12k → 14%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $14k → 10%CPOMF: $18k → 12%ALADS CARES: $10k → 14%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $13k → 10%CALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICERS M: $60k → 12%ALADS CARES: $8k → 14%OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $12k → 10%CALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICERS M: $56k → 12%LBPOA CHARITY: $10k → 14%JESSIE REES FOUNDATION: $6k → 10%GARDEN GROVE POLICE ASSOCIATI: $39k → 10%ANAHEIM POLICE S&S FUND: $5k → 10%OC SHERIFFS ADVISORY COUNCIL: $6k → 10%HB POLICE ASSOC FOUNDATION: $24k → 10%HB POLICE ASSOC FOUNDATION: $7k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 9 repeat orgs$131k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+4%

Still filing today

44%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
PhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • OG
    OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS
    8× · 2017–2025 · $308k
  • CP
    CALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $261k · revenue +39%
  • OP
    OC PEACE OFFICERS
    4× · 2019–2022 · $165k

Funded once

  • GG
    GARDEN GROVE POLICE ASSOCIATI
    one grant, 2024 · $39k
  • EM
    El Monte Police Officers Association
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -67%
  • SB
    SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOC-CHARITY FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -77%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Los Angeles County Law Enforcement Trust

Supporting families of fallen law enforcement officers

Human Services
2
Concerns of Police Survivors

Support for families of officers lost

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3
Oceanside Police Officers Association Foundation

The mission of the organization is to provide assistance to families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty or faced with other crisis situations, provide assistance to other members of the community including victims of…

Employment
4
San Luis Obispo Law Enforcement Assistance Foundation
Human Services
5
The Sheriffs Posse of El Dorado County

To provide aid to spouses and issue of peace officers who, while in the employ of el dorado county, or other municipal corporations in the area of el dorado county, or in the employ of the california highway patrol, have lost their lives…

Human Services
6
Santa Monica Police Officers Association Charity

Immediate financial assistance provided for surviving spouses/families of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

Crime & Legal
7
Los Angeles Retired Fire and Police Benevolent Association
Crime & Legal
8
Colorado Concerns of Police Survivors

The mission statement of c.o.p.s. reflects the strong belief that assistance, guidance, understanding, empathy, and hope for the future for the survivors of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty begins with a caring, prepared…

—
9
Eagle and Badge Foundation

The mission of the eagle & badge foundation is to provide support to los angeles police officers, their families and the children in the communities they serve.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
California Fraternal Order of Police Foundation

The CA FOP Foundation was founded to provide emergency benefits to California Fraternal Order of Police members, Law Enforcement employees and the members of their families in times of crisis. The CA FOP Foundation supports many projects…

Education
11
Chp Memorial Wall

Creation of a wall memorial for fallen chp officers

Community Improvement
12
Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation

The foundation provides grants to los angeles police department employees and their families who are experiencing financial difficulty due to death, injury or illness.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Peace Officers Memorial Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Jessie Rees Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 19 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESS: $308,011 · OtherOTHER GRANTS 5000 OR LESSOC PEACE OFFICERS: $165,402 · OtherOC PEACE OFFICERSCALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICERS M: $115,847 · OtherCALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICERS MNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFC: $61,198 · OtherNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFCRCDS RELIEF FOUNDATION: $44,020 · OtherRCDS RELIEF FOUNDATIONGARDEN GROVE POLICE ASSOCIATI: $39,115 · OtherHUNTINGTON BEACH POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,379 · Other+5 more: $60,586 · Other+5 moreCALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $260,950 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICER…ALADS CARES FOUNDATION: $62,759 · PhilanthropyTHE PROFESSIONAL PEACE OFFICERS STAR AND SHIELD FOUNDATION: $20,759 · PhilanthropySAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOC-CHARITY FUND: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLONG BEACH POLICE OFFICERS MEMORIAL WIDOWS EMERGENCY & SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 · Crime & LegalJessie Rees Foundation: $6,105 · HealthANAHEIM POLICE SURVIVORS AND SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,250 · Education
Other$824,558Arts & Culture$260,950Philanthropy$83,518Youth Development$10,000Crime & Legal$10,000Health$6,105Education$5,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCALIFORNIA PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $260,950 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetALADS CARES FOUNDATION: $62,759 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetHUNTINGTON BEACH POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC: $30,379 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetTHE PROFESSIONAL PEACE OFFICERS STAR AND SHIELD FOUNDATION: $20,759 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetEl Monte Police Officers Association: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFFS EMPLOYEES BENEFIT ASSOC-CHARITY FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLONG BEACH POLICE OFFICERS MEMORIAL WIDOWS EMERGENCY & SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation: $6,105 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANAHEIM POLICE SURVIVORS AND SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $5,250 over 1y, 7.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aocds Memorial Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aocds Memorial Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Aocds Memorial Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Aocds Memorial Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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