Utah · Nonprofit
MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION
MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,905 to it, the largest being Motorola Solutions Foundation ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.1M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $292k
- Net assets
- $3.8M
What Major Cities Chiefs Association does
Mission
Conduct training seminars for police executives and to provide research on law enforcement topics to police executives and departments.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Conduct training seminars for police executives and chiefs of major city police departments.
$2,091,937 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,091,937.
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 $3.5M to $4.5M (+30%).
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: 2017 9% · 2018 18% · 2020 1% · 2021 1% · 2022 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $115k → $27k.
From the IRS filings of MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION’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
MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
31% 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 MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 87% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $661k on record — $660k federal, $648 state.
- Department of Justice$660k
- FEES - GENERAL-FOR SERVICE $498
- FEES-GENERAL-FOR SERVICE $150
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION
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 Utah
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION: 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 MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION?
- MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION (Utah) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $291,905 to it, the largest being Motorola Solutions Foundation ($200,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $291,905 in grants to MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION?
- Motorola Solutions Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAJOR CITIES CHIEFS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 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