New York · Nonprofit
LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC
LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,700 to it, the largest being JOHNNY CRISSTOPHER CHILDRENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION JDS ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $406k
- Net assets
- $54k
What Little Steven's Policeman's Ball Inc does
Mission
Little steven's policeman's ball, inc. Is a non-profit fundraising organization that organizes and manages fundraising events for benefits programs for police officers as well as provide funding for the families of fallen officers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization contributes to organizations such as the dea's widow's and children's fund and the nypd - with arms wide open organization to take care of the families of law enforcement officials.
$48,308 spentof which $40,000 as grants$46,914 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $48,308.
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 2017 to 2018, from $187k to $489k (+162%).
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.
0% of LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Steven Van Zandt
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $5k → $182k.
3 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL 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.
How concentrated its funding is
LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
77% 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 LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 55% — 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
0% of LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 25% 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
78% of LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $174k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC: 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 LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC?
- LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC (New York) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $405,700 to it, the largest being JOHNNY CRISSTOPHER CHILDRENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION JDS ($100,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $405,700 in grants to LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC?
- JOHNNY CRISSTOPHER CHILDRENS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION JDS is the largest funder on record, with $100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LITTLE STEVEN'S POLICEMAN'S BALL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 12 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