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KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC

KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$3k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$8k
Net assets
$52k
1/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 14%
01What it does

What Kern County Sheriffs Reserve Inc does

Mission

Promote trust and awareness of local law enforcement by sponsoring and participating in events which bring the community and law enfocement together. To provide monetary support for reserve officers to acquire the tools required to properly perform their voluntary function.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Annual banquet and awards dinner provided for community volunteers and reserve officers. Provides a means to bring the community and law enforcement agencies together.

    $2,051 spent
    27% of program spending
  2. Bereavements provided to local families of law enforcement and donations to programs supporting or sponsored by local law enforcement agencies.

    $1,240 spent
    16% of program spending
  3. Provide tuition to volunteer reserve officers for training seminars focused on interaction with the community for the services provided.

    $4,256 spent
    56% of program spending
  4. Provide payment of annual dues for volunteer reserve officers to belong to the "california reserve peace officers association", a state-wide organization.

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $7,547.

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 ($8k) Expenses 100 ($27k) Net assets 100 ($103k)2018 Revenue 358 ($28k) Expenses 136 ($37k) Net assets 92 ($95k)2019 Revenue 448 ($36k) Expenses 148 ($40k) Net assets 88 ($91k)2020 Revenue 320 ($25k) Expenses 71 ($19k) Net assets 94 ($97k)2021 Revenue 328 ($26k) Expenses 85 ($23k) Net assets 97 ($101k)2022 Revenue -10 ($-809) Expenses 40 ($11k) Net assets 86 ($89k)2023 Revenue 23 ($2k) Expenses 72 ($19k) Net assets 69 ($71k)2024 Revenue 71 ($6k) Expenses 58 ($16k) Net assets 59 ($61k)2025 Revenue 42 ($3k) Expenses 45 ($12k) Net assets 51 ($52k)
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Revenue (42)Expenses (45)Net assets (51)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $89k to $71k (−20%).

$103k
$95k
$91k
$97k
$101k
$89k
$71k
$61k
$52k
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Total assets

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,013 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$19k
’17
−$8k
’18
−$4k
’19
$6k
’20
$3k
’21
−$12k
’22
−$18k
’23
−$10k
’24
−$9k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $3k.

Funder
'19
'20
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC’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.

Where its funders are

KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC's revenue fell 58% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−267% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−10% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,106 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC?
KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $8,000 to it, the largest being Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation ($8,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $8,000 in grants to KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC?
Mark and Jessie Milano Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $8,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS RESERVE INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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