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CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION

CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,600 to it, the largest being HN and Frances C Berger Foundation ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.8M
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
$57k
Grants received
$2.3M
Net assets
1/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,336 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 100 ($3.7M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 80 ($3.0M) Expenses 75 ($2.8M) Net assets 106 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 78 ($3.0M) Expenses 84 ($3.1M) Net assets 112 ($1.5M)2020 Revenue 70 ($2.7M) Expenses 71 ($2.6M) Net assets 118 ($1.5M)2021 Revenue 82 ($3.1M) Expenses 75 ($2.8M) Net assets 144 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 86 ($3.3M) Expenses 83 ($3.1M) Net assets 143 ($1.9M)2023 Revenue 87 ($3.3M) Expenses 88 ($3.3M) Net assets 152 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 100 ($3.8M) Expenses 94 ($3.5M) Net assets 175 ($2.3M)
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Revenue (100)Expenses (94)Net assets (175)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 52% · 2019 54% · 2020 62% · 2021 58% · 2022 54% · 2023 55% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

83% of CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,390 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$82k
17
$254k
18
$130k
19
$28k
20
$330k
21
$149k
22
$46k
23
$295k
24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $100 → $30k.

From the IRS filings of CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION’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

CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

35% 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 CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION.

35%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 77% · 2020 67%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.

Where its funders are

100% of CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

17
18
20
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 4%Fundraising 1%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • California State Sheriffs Assn Found · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION: 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 STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION?
CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $56,600 to it, the largest being HN and Frances C Berger Foundation ($20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $56,600 in grants to CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION?
HN and Frances C Berger Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CALIFORNIA STATE SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing