Colorado · Nonprofit
Boulder Police Foundation
Boulder Police Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,500 to it, the largest being The Caruso Foundation dba Caruso Entrepreneurship Initiative ($111,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $450k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $247k
- Net assets
- $443k
What Boulder Police Foundation does
Mission
Boulder Police Foundation's primary purpose is to promote community welfare and safety by strengthening connections and fostering positive interactions between the City of Boulder Police Department and community members, ensuring the department is seen as a welcome and vital part of the community. This includes supporting operations, volunteer and youth programs, public safety initiatives, training, equipment grants, crime deterrence, volunteer recognition, and other charitable or educational efforts to enhance the quality of life in Boulder, Colorado
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Boulder Police Foundation exists to raise funds and to allocate those funds in support of the mission of the Boulder Police Department focused on supporting Public Safety and community welfare.
$57,402 spentof which $57,344 as grants$7,209 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $57,402.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $52k to $444k (+750%).
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.
99% of Boulder Police Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Boulder Police Foundation’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
Boulder Police Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
31% 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 Boulder Police Foundation.
“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.
Where its funders are
94% of Boulder Police Foundation's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $78k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
Boulder Police Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,082 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,082 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Boulder Police Foundation
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Boulder Police Foundation: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Boulder Police Foundation?
- Boulder Police Foundation (Colorado) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $246,500 to it, the largest being The Caruso Foundation dba Caruso Entrepreneurship Initiative ($111,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Boulder Police Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $246,500 in grants to Boulder Police Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Boulder Police Foundation?
- The Caruso Foundation dba Caruso Entrepreneurship Initiative is the largest funder on record, with $111,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Boulder Police Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2023–2024), and the filings of 11 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