Mississippi · Nonprofit
MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS
MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,647 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($86,448). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Ms Center for Police & Sheriffs does
Mission
The mississippi center for police and sheriff's was founded to offer a unified voice for all law enforcement personnel and agencies, a forum for exchange of ideas, cost-effective in-state location for training to improve agency effectiveness and aid professional development of officers. Additionally, the mississippi center for police and sheriff's works to enhance the delivery of social services to the homeless, elderly, veterans, and engandered children who are at-risk in any community and/or vulnerable populations. The specific mission if to provide community based, non- profit, "out of the box" social service programs to make our communities healthly and safe while reducing policing liabilities.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
To promote & advance housing projects & related facilities for persons who are members of low-income families & very low-income families including, but without limitation to elderly & disabled persons, financing the acquisition, construction, renovation, and equipping of buildings or related facilities. To enhance the delivery of social services to the homeless, elderly, veterans, and endangered children who are at-risk in any community and/or vulnerable populations.
$2,077,964 spent$4,021,529 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,077,964.
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 2024 to 2025, from $771k to $2.2M (+185%).
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: 2021 96% · 2022 94% · 2023 85% · 2024 69% · 2025 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
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
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
Steven Pickett
Executive director
Board chair
Shannon Fuller
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $33k → $15k.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 5 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.
How concentrated its funding is
MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
66% of MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS's grant income comes from Mississippi funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k 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
MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.3M on record.
- Department of Veterans Affairs$1.2M
- Department of Agriculture$123k
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 MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS
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 Mississippi
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS: 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 MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS?
- MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS (Mississippi) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $174,647 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI ($86,448). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $174,647 in grants to MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI is the largest funder on record, with $86,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MS CENTER FOR POLICE & SHERIFFS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Mississippi. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 5 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