IRON STAR FOUNDATION

Programs

1. Food deliveries: the foundation is working with police outreach officers to identify families and neighborhoods in the dc-md-va area in acute need of groceries. The foundation obtains groceries from the capitol area food bank and local military commissaries and mobilizes uniformed outreach officers from the local dc, md or va police departments to provide emergency food deliveries. Food deliveries comprise approximately 20 percent of the foundation's activities. Food deliveries are funded by donations. Approximately 10 percent of the foundation's budget is allocated to this activity. This activity furthers the foundation's charitable purpose because it meets an acute need of the community while providing an opportunity for police officers to engage with the communities they serve in a positive way.

   $104,824 spent
   12% of program spending

2. Elementary school engagement: the foundation is working with police outreach officers and other nonprofit community outreach organizations e.g. Project hope, national parks trust, national center for children and families. The foundation's employees facilitate enriching and valuable classroom activities and field trips for elementary age school children from at-risk neighborhoods, and mobilize uniformed outreach officers from the local dc, va and md police departments to accompany the children in the activities. Elementary school engagement activities comprise approximately 40 percent of the foundation's time. Approximately 20 percent of the foundation's budget is allocated to this activity, which furthers the foundation's charitable purpose because it meets a need of the community while providing an opportunity for police officers to engage with the communities they serve in a positive way. The activities build bridges between the officers and the communities they serve and create positive impressions of the services that police officers provide among the community members that they serve. High school mentoring: the foundation works with police outreach officers and other…

   $160,831 spent
   19% of program spending

3. Community engagement: working with police outreach officers and other community outreach partnerships, the foundation sponsors regular community engagement activities in the dc-md-va region, including biweekly pop-up meal trucks where police officers serve a meal to local community members in the most at-risk neighborhoods, holiday events like safe night out for halloween, where officers invite the communities in the most dangerous neighborhoods into the precinct for halloween trick-or-treating, winter wonderland and santa claus is coming to town events where police officers distribute holiday gifts to children in under-resourced communities, and an annual gala where the foundation recognizes officers and individuals who have contributed to positive relationship-building during the year and where the foundation recognizes iron star families. Iron star families are surviving family members who have lost a loved one to violent crime along with surviving family members of police officers killed in the line of duty. Community engagement activities comprise approximately 20 percent of our time. The activities are funded by donations from the public and approximately 50 percent of the…

   $595,958 spent
   69% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $861,613.