Colorado · Nonprofit
DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM
DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,815 to it, the largest being JGL FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $176k
- Net assets
- $507k
What Denver Police Law Enforcement Museum does
Mission
To promote social impact by building bridges between citizens and law enforcement of denver, creating opportunities for community understanding and engagement, strengthening the city's relationship with the community, and educating youth to inspire community involvement, responsibility, and a future generation of law enforcement professionals.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The museum is dedicated to actively creating community conversations where citizens can hear, see, feel, participate, understand, and appreciate the value of police in our lives. Through hands-on learning and events, the museum teaches youth and communities about career opportunities, criminal justice, history, and policing in our city. The museum is dedicated to remembering, preserving, and understanding the history of the denver police department. Through our fallen officer project, the museum shares the stories and honors the lives of those denver police officers who have died in the line of duty by commemerating their courage, dedication, and unwavering commitment to preserving our safety and our way of life.
$87,867 spent$41,129 earned by the program75% of program spendingIn 2025, the museum and our partners have hosted 19 programs impacting a total of 481 students. The museum hopes to be a leader in youth education and crime prevention, as well as a facilitator to improve community relations between our police and our community, focusing on youth and families. In keeping with this goal, the museum has developed and is continuing to develop innovative programs to support trust-building and career exploration. The museum is seeking to demonstrate how programs with positive officer and youth interactions can help to overcome fears and misconceptions about police, and promote goodwill and understanding.
$29,289 spent25% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $117,156.
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 2022 to 2023, from $293k to $392k (+34%).
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.
78% of DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 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 held at 2 funders, grant income fell $100k → $10k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM’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
DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.
“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
97% of DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $615 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
DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM: 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 DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM?
- DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM (Colorado) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,815 to it, the largest being JGL FOUNDATION ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $175,815 in grants to DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM?
- JGL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DENVER POLICE LAW ENFORCEMENT MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 6 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