Kentucky · Nonprofit
LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC
LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,025,339 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,775,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $9.1M
What Louisville Metro Police Foundation Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to help ensure that louisville is one of america's safest cities by using private donations to provide the louisville metro police department and its officers with essential equipment and programs not covered by our tax dollars.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Officers in distress fund was established to provide critical financial support directly to louisville metro police department officers and staff members who suffer extraordinary tragedies in the line of duty or outside the line of duty.
$461,023 spentof which $461,023 as grants$328,046 earned by the program37% of program spendingAwards celebration: providing goodwill in our community for the men and women of the louisville metro police department. The entire community of louisville benefits from this event.
$1,862 spent$13,224 earned by the program0% of program spendingWellness center: provides a space to promote physical, spiritual, metnal, social and financial health for police and first responders.
$0 spent$168,317 earned by the program0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$780,690 spentof which $496,900 as grants63% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,243,575.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.0M to $7.8M (+56%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
71% of LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Steve Bass
Chairman of board
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $45k → $1.4M.
10 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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: $417k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC raised.
From the IRS filings of LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 70% · 2018 72% · 2019 84% · 2020 78% · 2021 37% · 2022 90% · 2023 36% — 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
32% of LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
50% of LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.0M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from Kentucky funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
52%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC?
- LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,025,339 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,775,000). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $4,025,339 in grants to LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,775,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 42 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