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DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION

DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,655 to it, the largest being KIMLEY-HORN FOUNDATION ($4,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2019
$57k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$6k
Net assets
$52k
2/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Des Moines Police Foundation does

Mission

The Des Moines Police Foundation provides recognition, awareness and support for the Des Moines Police Department and our Community.

As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.

Program

AED Auction. Auction to purchase AED units for the police dept.

The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.

02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $250 → $68.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
funders
1
1
1
1
1
1

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION’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

DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% 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

87%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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

DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 1 state in all.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $755 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.

03Its place in the field

Against its field

DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,506 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.

Operating margin28% · above the median
Months of reserve15.4mo · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,506 public safety & disaster nonprofits under $100k, FY2019

Organizations like DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION

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 Washington

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION: 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 DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION?
DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION (Washington) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,655 to it, the largest being KIMLEY-HORN FOUNDATION ($4,900). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $5,655 in grants to DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION?
KIMLEY-HORN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DES MOINES POLICE FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2019 (financials across 2019–2019), 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