Texas · Nonprofit
AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA
AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,161 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($344,106). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $220k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $533k
- Net assets
- $343k
What Austin Police Operation Blue Santa does
Mission
Provide toys for all children under age 14 in qualifing households and food for families in need during the christmas holiday season each year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide toys for over 12,000 children and food for over 4,000 families during the holiday season. The general public contributes thousands of food items, toys and other noncash items which are used in program services. Such donations are not recorded on the tax return because the fair market value of the contributions cannot be readily determined.
$242,318 spentof which $108,655 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $242,318.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $527k to $343k (−35%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
98% of AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $2k → $87k.
5 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
73% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 81% · 2021 70% · 2022 67% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
71% of AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $155k that is directly attributable, 66% of it comes from funders outside Texas, across 7 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $378k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,917 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA?
- AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA (Texas) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $533,161 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($344,106). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $533,161 in grants to AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $344,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AUSTIN POLICE OPERATION BLUE SANTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 20 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing