California · Nonprofit
MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,707 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($57,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $111k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $159k
- Net assets
- $334k
What Mountain View Public Safety Foundation does
Mission
Assist the police and fire department of mountain view, ca and mountain view pal with the goal of making the city a better and safer place to work and live. Providing community outreach programs, training and equipment to help ensure that public safety officers can safely and effectively protect the community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Establish youth programs, including after-school programs for underprivileged and underserved youth, intended to encourage citizenship and responsibility and discourage youth away from gangs and criminal activity. Provide affordable public safety training programs including officer safety, skills development, leadership and continuing education.
$16,508 spent$89,871 earned by the program28% of program spendingFoster mutual understanding between youth and police officers through a non-confrontational setting and, in this way, divert them away from gangs and criminal activity.
$15,163 spent$16,740 earned by the program26% of program spendingAssemble and help deliver food baskets for the annual cops & gobblers thanksgiving food drive.
$27,093 spent$19,401 earned by the program46% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $58,764.
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 2018 to 2019, from $235k to $394k (+68%).
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.
114% of MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Amber Wilson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell $61k → $28k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION’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
MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 48% · 2021 62% · 2022 65% · 2023 72% — 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.
How long its funders stay
25% of MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
59% of MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION'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 $64k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $94k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,070 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
55% 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 MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: 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 MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $158,707 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION ($57,500). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $158,707 in grants to MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- THE ALBERTSONS COMPANIES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOUNTAIN VIEW PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION 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 8 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