California · Nonprofit
MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $124k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $138k
What Merced County Sheriff's Department Community Law Enforcement Office does
Mission
Merced County Sheriff's Department Community Law Enforcement Office is a non-profit organized to assist the merced county sheriff's department in accomplishing its law enforcement mission, promoting public safety and serving the community by recruiting, organizing and directing volunteer citizens to promote the ideas of public safety, prevention of crime, through cooperation, involement and participation with local law enforcement, through public awareness campagns and other community outreach programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Merced County Sheriff's Department Community Law Enforcement Office is a non-profit organized to assist the merced county sheriff's department in accomplishing its law enforcement mission, promoting public safety and serving the community by recruiting, organizing and directing volunteer citizens to promote the ideas of public safety, prevention of crime, through cooperation, involement and participation with local law enforcement, through public awareness campagns and other community outreach programs.
$128,222 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $128,222.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 2022 to 2023, from $74k to $143k (+92%).
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.
54% of MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 1 of 2 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE
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In California
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 MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE: 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 SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE?
- MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,500 in grants to MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCED COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT COMMUNITY LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICE 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 2 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