Delaware · Nonprofit
DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC
DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,250 to it, the largest being DELAWARE POLICE CHIEFS' FOUNDATION INC ($198,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $490k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $205k
- Net assets
- $405k
What Delaware Association of Chiefs of Police Inc does
Mission
The delaware association of chiefs of police is a non-profit organization directed at improving the delivery of police services through police executive development, enhanced cooperation among police agencies and promotion of standardization and accreditation within police departments.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Enhancing police services/50 chiefs of police encompasses the general activities of the delaware association of chiefs of police not otherwise described under local police coordination or staff development seminar. It includes monthly business meetings conducted at wilmington university dover campus and includes a broad scope of activities which address issues and criminal justice system problems for the singular purpose of improving the delivery of police services. Forty-eight police departments are served by this program.
$177,530 spent78% of program spendingStaff development seminar is a training seminar jointly sponsored by the delaware association of chiefs of police and the dover police department. The seminar is typically conducted in sussex county in may and concentrates on improving the management capability of chiefs of police and their command personnel. Dover uses a portion of state aid to local law enforcement funds in support of the seminar. Fifty agencies are served by this program.
$9,561 spent4% of program spendingLocal police coordination has fifty police agencies who serve under the program and the coordination effort is for the purpose of bringing together the diverse interests and abilities that exist among the fifty police agencies. Through coordination of efforts, we are able to develop a unified approach to delaware's policing efforts that has resulted in adoption of uniform, statewide, operating policies and procedures.
$39,191 spent17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $226,282.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $141k to $405k (+187%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 36% · 2019 55% · 2020 61% · 2021 55% · 2022 44% · 2023 58% · 2024 41% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Marvin Mailey
Executive director
Board chair
Chief Richard Mccabe
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $38k → $21k.
From the IRS filings of DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE 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
DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 98% · 2019 95% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Organizations like DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE 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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC?
- DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC (Delaware) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $205,250 to it, the largest being DELAWARE POLICE CHIEFS' FOUNDATION INC ($198,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $205,250 in grants to DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC?
- DELAWARE POLICE CHIEFS' FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $198,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DELAWARE ASSOCIATION OF CHIEFS OF POLICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2 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