Texas · Nonprofit
CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION
CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,200 to it, the largest being STILL WATER FOUNDATION ($135,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $76k
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $479k
- Net assets
- $146k
What Central Texas Public Safety Commission does
Mission
Support law enforcement and first responders, raise public awareness about crime prevention and public safety, and promote anti-crime initiatives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Law enforcement patrol staffing research and applicable model design-phase one: research for use in law enforcement agencies on empirical data and machine learning staffing models while also requiring value-based survey data to provide insight into patrol staffing requirements for adequate service on calls and the activities officers undertake when not working on calls for service. The model will be designed in phase two to reflect the need to address proactive patrol, establishing police presence in high crime or high calls for service areas, and community policing.
$381,037 spentof which $1,000 as grants88% of program spendingAustin fire foundation: program that supports issues for first responders such as cancer risk awareness, first responder professional development opportunities, public fire awareness campaigns.
$50,397 spent12% of program spendingLaw enforcement and first responder training and support initiatives: this program provides training equipment and funding support for agencies and departments experiencing budget shortfalls and/or specialized needs. Participating organizations include police, fire ems, county sheriffs, fbi and other first responder organizations.
$0 spent0% of program spendingPublic safety series and community coalition briefings: this programs includes an annual 9-11 memorial event, public safety coalition and community anti-crime initiatives that feature public safety and law enforcement leaders combined with policy experts that focus on a variety of anti-crime and community public safety topics.neighborhood network-municipal public safety initiative: this program provides data from a variety of sources (surveys, neighborhood watch programs, public crime statistics etc.) and educational resources advocating for anti-crime initiatives within the austin area. The program includes some lobby activity between the organization and the members of the austin city council advocating for increase public/fire/ems sworn and civilian positions and other related first responder needs during the city budget cycle discussion and council and task force hearings.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $431,434.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $560k to $339k (−39%).
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.
86% of CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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 narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $49k → $89k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $159k from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Austin Community Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION raised.
From the IRS filings of CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION’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
CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
33% 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 CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 56% · 2019 87% · 2020 60% · 2021 58% · 2022 82% · 2023 56% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
82% of CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k 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
CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION
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.
Public support
39%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION?
- CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION (Texas) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $479,200 to it, the largest being STILL WATER FOUNDATION ($135,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $479,200 in grants to CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION?
- STILL WATER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $135,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRAL TEXAS PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 19 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