Texas · Nonprofit
HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION
HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,446,492 to it, the largest being JEROLD B KATZ FOUNDATION ($2,080,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 54
- Grants received
- $7.4M
- Net assets
- $5.1M
What Houston Police Foundation does
Mission
The Houston Police Foundation strives to promote awareness, enhance safety, and improve performance within the houston police department by encouraging citizen involvement and support in making houston a safer city for all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Promoted awareness of the houston police department to the general public, including police week, a week dedicated to honor police officers and increase public understanding of the department. Final payments were made for 8 new armored trucks and they were put into place in 2023. A quadruped robot was purchased for a total cost of $386,714 and also new aviator helmets were purchased for a total cost of $133,149. This specialized equipment further provides the best available police protection and greater technology in dealing with dangerous situations that officers face today.
$1,540,377 spentof which $1,374,951 as grants86% of program spendingAdopt a horse - to support the cost of raising 30 to 35 horses to be used in the houston mounted patrol.
$51,057 spentof which $51,057 as grants3% of program spendingTrue blue gala - fundraising even benefitting the houston police department.
$200,414 spentof which $200,414 as grants11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,791,848.
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 2020 to 2021, from $4.9M to $2.7M (−45%).
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.
87% of HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Charlene Floyd
Executive director
Board chair
Tilman J Fertitta
Chairman of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $339k → $473k.
8 of 54 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $949k from 5 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo Educational Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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
HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
37% 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 HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 52% · 2019 60% · 2020 30% · 2021 45% · 2022 17% · 2023 28% — 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
41% of HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
99% of HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Against its field
HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like HOUSTON 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION?
- HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION (Texas) receives grants from 54 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,446,492 to it, the largest being JEROLD B KATZ FOUNDATION ($2,080,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 54 organizations giving $7,446,492 in grants to HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION?
- JEROLD B KATZ FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,080,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HOUSTON POLICE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 54 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