California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $370 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($370). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $370
- Net assets
- $260k
What California Association of Tactical Officers does
Mission
Cato is a non-profit, non-political organization. Cato is organized exclusively for charitable purposes with the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. Cato was established as an organization "of tactical team members by and for tactical team members." with over 30 million residents in california and over 80,000 sworn officers, cato's mandate is to provide information, training, and resources to its members.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To increase the professionalism and proficiency of special weapons teams and members across the state. To provide a forum for the exchanges of current and relevant issues and information: maintain a secure online web site; provide and/or sponsor superior training and conference programs; maintain a liaison with tactical teams methods of operation and equipment; provide training assistance and support; and become the largest non-profit organization in the state dedicated exclusively to personnel in all levels of tactical operations.
$837,482 spent$988,173 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $837,482.
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 2017 to 2018, from $335k to $202k (−40%).
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.
5% of CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Marcus Sprague
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS’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.
Where its funders are
100% of CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $370 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS: 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 CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS?
- CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $370 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($370). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $370 in grants to CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $370 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF TACTICAL OFFICERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 1 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing