Skip to content

California · Nonprofit

LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION

LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,971 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($210,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$323k
Funders on record
24
Grants received
$526k
Net assets
$1.1M
11/24 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 57%
01What it does

What Los Angeles Police Reserve Foundation does

Mission

Provide equipment and training to LAPD Reserve Officers not provided by the LAPD; Recruit additional Reserve Officers; Provide scholarships to LAPD Reserve Officers and or their immediate family members; Host the Annual Awards dinner to recognize outstanding LAPD Reserve Officers provide financial assistance to Reserve Officers in need.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Produce the Annual LAPD Reserve Officers Awards Dinner recognizing outstanding Reserve Officersfor their work as determined by Commanding Officers in their respective Divisions and areas of assignment. Pressent service pins to Reserve Officers who acjeived 25 20 35 40 etc years of service on the job.

    $139,458 spent$214,718 earned by the program
    77% of program spending
  2. Provide for the cost of equipment and training not provided by the LAPD to existing Reserve Officers; assist new Reserve Recruits with the cost equipment required for entering the Academy if they deem it a financial hardship; subsidize the cost of a Legal Plan should the need arise during the performance of their duties; and provide financial aid to Reserve Officers experiencing financial hardships.

    $40,977 spent
    23% of program spending
  3. Fund recruitment advertising costs to recruit new Reserve Officers

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $180,435.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($151k) Expenses 100 ($95k) Net assets 100 ($661k)2021 Revenue 146 ($220k) Expenses 193 ($183k) Net assets 106 ($699k)2022 Revenue 266 ($402k) Expenses 224 ($212k) Net assets 134 ($888k)2023 Revenue 225 ($340k) Expenses 195 ($185k) Net assets 158 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 214 ($323k) Expenses 231 ($220k) Net assets 173 ($1.1M)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (214)Expenses (231)Net assets (173)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $699k to $888k (+27%).

$661k
$699k
$888k
$1.0M
$1.1M
20202021202220232024
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$56k
’20
$37k
’21
$190k
’22
$155k
’23
$103k
’24
63
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.

20202021202220232024
Listed1616161716
Joined·+2+1+2+0
No longer listed·2111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $3k → $70k.

3 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE 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

LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

40%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 44% · 2019 22% · 2020 74% · 2021 55% · 2022 27% · 2023 58% — growing more concentrated.

“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

38% of LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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 LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
NJ
CA

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $97k 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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE 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 California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

94%

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 LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE 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.

A paid feature, included from the $75 plan up. Sign in to download.

Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION?
LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $525,971 to it, the largest being THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION ($210,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $525,971 in grants to LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE FOUNDATION?
THE AHMANSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LOS ANGELES POLICE RESERVE 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.

Play a game about who funds Los Angeles Police Reserve →

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 24 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