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MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI

MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $950 to it, the largest being VAQUERO FOUNDATION ($950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$109k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$950
Net assets
$96k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Merced County Deputy Sheriff's Associati does

Mission

The Merced County Deputy Sheriff's Association is dedicated to supporting the sworn and non-sworn employees of the merced county sheriff's deparment.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To represent and secure adequate compensation for the performance of members' professional duties and to improve conditions of employment.

    $98,718 spent$96,150 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $98,718.

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 ($100k) Expenses 100 ($109k) Net assets 100 ($4k)2018 Revenue 93 ($93k) Expenses 78 ($85k) Net assets 276 ($12k)2024 Revenue 109 ($109k) Expenses 129 ($141k) Net assets 2202 ($96k)
201720182024
Revenue (109)Expenses (129)Net assets (2202)Peer revenue range

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 $4k to $12k (+176%).

$4k
$12k
$96k
201720182024
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.

2017
2018
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (54% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,338 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

−$9k
’17
$8k
’18
−$32k
’24
7.8
months of
reserve
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income held at $475.

Funder
'20
'21
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI’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

100% of MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

’20
’21
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

MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI is better cushioned than half of the 2,276 employment nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−29% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve7.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,276 employment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

3
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI: 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 MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI?
MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $950 to it, the largest being VAQUERO FOUNDATION ($950). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $950 in grants to MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI?
VAQUERO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $950 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MERCED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATI 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing