California · Nonprofit
MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE
MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MERCED COUNTY ($5,000). 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.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- United Way of Merced Countyshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Hatedust Project Incshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fundlocalportfolio match
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.
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 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 SHERIFFS POSSE’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 SHERIFFS POSSE'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. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- United Way of Merced Countyshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · funds 34 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Hatedust Project Incshared funderslocalportfolio matchCA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Elks Park Scholarship & Charity Fundlocalportfolio matchCA · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The American Donkey Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathryn J Clark Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Kennel Club Companion Animal Recovery Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United States Equestrian Federation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David and Judy Norsworthy Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equus Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Retirement Management Accountportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- USA Equestrian Trust Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Vineyard Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE?
- MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MERCED COUNTY ($5,000). 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 SHERIFFS POSSE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE.
- Who is the largest funder of MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MERCED COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MERCED COUNTY SHERIFFS POSSE 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.
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 1funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing