Wisconsin · Nonprofit
COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC
COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,900 to it, the largest being JF AHERN CO FOUNDATION ($23,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $71k
- Net assets
- $18k
What Cops for Kids Foundation Inc does
Mission
To promote the welfare of children in and around the community by emphasizing the needs of children who may be physically or economically disadvantaged.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
To promote the welfare of children in home, school, and/or community to raise the standards of life of the children in fond du lac county, wi and emphasizing the needs of those children who may be economically or physically disadvantaged.
$28,373 spentof which $28,373 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $28,373.
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 2021 to 2022, from $45k to $14k (−70%).
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.
100% of COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $1k → $11k.
1 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC’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
COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 55% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 56% · 2022 75% · 2023 45% — 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
80% of COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
100% of COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k 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
COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC has grown faster than half of the 3,356 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,356 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC
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 Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
77%
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 COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC: 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 COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC?
- COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,900 to it, the largest being JF AHERN CO FOUNDATION ($23,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $70,900 in grants to COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC?
- JF AHERN CO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COPS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 8 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