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Fallen Officer Foundation

Fallen Officer Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,163 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$143k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$28k
Net assets
$658k
3/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%
01What it does

What Fallen Officer Foundation does

Mission

The primary purpose of this corporation is to support, aid, assist, supplement and provide for urgent, crisis and trauma created special medical needs and family support, including but not limited to, home health care services, physical therapy, rehabilitation services, specially modified vehicles, special health care equipment, and medical related travel assistance, as well as family supportive assistance such as family and grief counseling,scholarship programs for children, and family financial problem assistance for police officers, highway patrol, security personnel, emergency workers, firefighters, paramedic and other persons participating in safety and other law enforcement occupations within Santa Cruz County who are affected by debilitating circumstances or who have been victims of severe injury.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Support and aid provided to first responders in Santa Cruz County

    $18,776 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $18,776.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($58k) Expenses 100 ($7k) Net assets 100 ($316k)2018 Revenue 140 ($82k) Expenses 335 ($24k) Net assets 118 ($374k)2019 Revenue 104 ($61k) Expenses 170 ($12k) Net assets 133 ($422k)2021 Revenue 25 ($15k) Expenses 291 ($21k) Net assets 140 ($442k)2022 Revenue 120 ($70k) Expenses 459 ($33k) Net assets 151 ($479k)2023 Revenue 190 ($110k) Expenses 480 ($35k) Net assets 175 ($554k)2024 Revenue 247 ($143k) Expenses 547 ($40k) Net assets 208 ($658k)
2017201820192021202220232024
Revenue (247)Expenses (547)Net assets (208)Peer revenue range

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 $579k to $674k (+16%).

$332k
$381k
$442k
$471k
$488k
$579k
$674k
2017201820192021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

79% of Fallen Officer Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$51k
’17
$57k
’18
$48k
’19
−$7k
’21
$37k
’22
$76k
’23
$104k
’24
203
months of
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.

20232024
Listed1111
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $800 → $2k.

2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 Fallen Officer 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

Fallen Officer Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

55% 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 Fallen Officer Foundation.

53%
largest funder
99%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 82% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% — 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.

Where its funders are

55% of Fallen Officer Foundation's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $15k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Fallen Officer Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin72% · top quartile
Months of reserve202.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like Fallen Officer 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

47% of spending goes to programs.

Program 47%Management 26%Fundraising 27%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Fallen Officer 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 Fallen Officer Foundation?
Fallen Officer Foundation (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,163 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($15,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Fallen Officer Foundation have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $28,163 in grants to Fallen Officer Foundation, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Fallen Officer Foundation?
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $15,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Fallen Officer Foundation find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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