· Public charity
Fort Worth Police Officer's Association
The Fort Worth Police Officers Association is a not-for-profit organization formed in 1948 to better the working conditions of police officers in the city of Fort Worth.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $5,803 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $33,588 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,785 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSIST THE OFFICER FORT WORTH | $5,803 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +242% since the first grant, against +118% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ATAssist the Officer Fort Worth2× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +242% · 32% of their budget
- FWFort Worth Cops for Kids Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +5%
- COCITY OF FORT WORTH2× · 2017–2019 · $6k
Funded once
- NLNATIONAL LATINO LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION-FORT WORTH CHAPTERone grant, 2019 · $28k
- POPeace Officers Memorial Foundationone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -89%
- FWFort Worth Police Foundationone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.
The Foundation serves as an endowment fund to recognize and promote excellence within the Fort Worth Police Department by providing resources for training, performance recognition, and promotional achievement.
The Fort Worth Police Officers Association is a not-for-profit organization formed in 1948 to better the working conditions of police officers in the city of Fort Worth.
Provide training and supplies to the Burleson Police Department
We provide financial assistance to security officers during injury, disaster, or illness and to the families of fallen security secrity officers.
Relationships among members & community
Send officers to the funerals of officers that die in the line of duty. We make a monetary donation to the family that lost their loved one.
Raising money for the national police memorial
Provide assistance to the Lakeway Police Department
To construct a sculpture memorializing the police officers killed in the line of duty july 7, 2016
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Police Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lance Mclean Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Assist the Officer Fort Worth ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Cops for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Peace Officers Memorial Foundation ↗
- Who funds Fort Worth Police Foundation ↗
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- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH ↗
- Who funds LANCE MCLEAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds East Fort Worth Business Association ↗
- Who funds BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN DALLAS TX ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 11866 MAGNOLIA COUNCIL ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fort Worth Police Officer's Association funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.