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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.

$34k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Crime & Legal$41kPublic Safety & Disaster$20kHealth$3kPhilanthropy$3kHuman Services$1kCommunity Improvement$500Civil Rights$400Religion$320
02FY2021 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $5,803, the rows itemized in this filing. The $33,588 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $27,785 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.
$5,803
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ASSIST THE OFFICER FORT WORTH$5,803
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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ROBBERY INVESTIGATORS OF TEXAS INC: $1k → 6%CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH INC: $1k → 11%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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$20k · 3 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +242% since the first grant, against +123% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
15

Total granted

$20k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+242%
+123%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’21
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterYouth DevelopmentHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • AT
    Assist the Officer Fort Worth
    2× · 2017–2021 · $9k · revenue +242% · 32% of their budget
  • FW
    Fort Worth Cops for Kids Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k · revenue +5%
  • CO
    CITY OF FORT WORTH
    2× · 2017–2019 · $6k

Funded once

  • NL
    NATIONAL LATINO LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION-FORT WORTH CHAPTER
    one grant, 2019 · $28k
  • PO
    Peace Officers Memorial Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -89%
  • FW
    Fort Worth Police Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Dallas Fallen Officer Foundation

To provide financial support and programs for fallen officer families. To raise awareness and advocate for national issues impacting officers.

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2
Fort Worth Police Foundation

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.

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3
Dallas Police Helicopter Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
4
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.

Employment
5
Burleson Police Foundation

Provide training and supplies to the Burleson Police Department

Public Benefit
6
Charitable Organization for Texas Security Officer

We provide financial assistance to security officers during injury, disaster, or illness and to the families of fallen security secrity officers.

Public Safety & Disaster
7
Forney Police Officers Association

Relationships among members & community

Human Services
8
Brotherhood for the Fallen - Fort Worth Tx

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.

Employment
9
Dallas Police Cycling Team

Raising money for the national police memorial

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10
Lakeway Police Memorial & Benevolent Foundation

Provide assistance to the Lakeway Police Department

Human Services
11
Dallas Memorial for the Fallen Police Officers Inc

To construct a sculpture memorializing the police officers killed in the line of duty july 7, 2016

Arts & Culture
12
Scottish Rite Foundation of Texas
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fort Worth Police Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL LATINO LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION-FORT WORTH CHAPTER: $27,964 · OtherNATIONAL LATINO LAW ENFORCEMENT ORGANIZATION-FORT WORTH CHAPTERCITY OF FORT WORTH: $5,500 · OtherCITY OF FORT WORTHPeace Officers Memorial Foundation: $5,000 · OtherPeace Officers Memorial Foundation+6 more: $3,120 · Other+6 moreAssist the Officer Fort Worth: $8,803 · Public Safety & DisasterAssist the Off…Fort Worth Cops for Kids Inc: $5,770 · Youth DevelopmentFort Wort…Fort Worth Police Foundation: $5,000 · Crime & LegalFort Wort…BROTHERHOOD FOR THE FALLEN DALLAS TX: $500 · Crime & LegalBROTHERHO…Cook Children's Medical Center: $2,500 · HealthCharity Golf Outings Inc: $2,000 · PhilanthropyRobbery Investigators of Texas Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $1,000 · Human ServicesLANCE MCLEAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 · Education
Other$41,584Public Safety & Disaster$8,803Youth Development$5,770Crime & Legal$5,500Health$2,500Philanthropy$2,000Human Services$2,000Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAssist the Officer Fort Worth: $8,803 over 2y, 32% of budgetFort Worth Cops for Kids Inc: $5,770 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetPeace Officers Memorial Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCook Children's Medical Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Golf Outings Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF FORT WORTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANCE MCLEAN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetEast Fort Worth Business Association: $500 over 1y, 2.6% 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 Fort Worth Police Officer's Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fort Worth Police Officer's Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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.

    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 18 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $13k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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