Virginia · Nonprofit
NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE
NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,301,178 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,001,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $-639971
What National Policing Institute does
Mission
The National Policing Institute is a nonpartisan and independent nonprofit organization dedicated to creating excellence in policing through the development, translation, and application of research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Program development, training and assistance: npi develops and provides evidence based assistance to police agencies, community organizations, elected officials and others to improve the police response to public safety problems and to improve trust and confidence between the police and those they serve. Npi develops new approaches to assist police in being responsive to community concerns, becoming more transparent and accountable, and assists agencies in developing and maintaining safety and wellness for officers and staff.
$6,324,659 spent82% of program spendingResearch and evaluation: npi conducts experimental and practical research in policing strategies and crime reduction approaches that address gun violence, reduce the need for force, build trust and mutual support between communities and officers, and that improve officer safety and well-functioning organizations that serve the community effectively. Npi's work also focuses on crime causation and specific emphasis on organizational, operation, technological, and administrative analyses; assessments of responses to crime and disorder; community surveys; and research on evidence based approaches.
$1,308,226 spent17% of program spendingCommunications and outreach: npi is an objective, nonpartisan resource for the media, the police, and the communities they serve. Npi utilizes a variety of communications and outreach strategies to promote science based reforms, the importance of evidence based crime reduction and response, and a fair and equitable justice system. This includes the dissemination of research and program evaluation data, policing and public safety data, critical incident reporting, and other information shared through our blogs, social media, webinars, livestreams, print and digital publications, and more.
$43,378 spent1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,676,263.
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.
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 $4.6M to $8.5M (+84%).
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: 2017 44% · 2018 51% · 2019 57% · 2020 56% · 2021 56% · 2022 44% · 2023 77% · 2024 78% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Ronal W Serpas
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $617k → $2.0M.
7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $7.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Police Foundation's Third Decade Fund for Improving Public Safety). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE’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
NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
53% 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 NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 63% · 2019 76% · 2020 47% · 2021 53% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% — 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
21% of NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 41% 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
52% of NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE'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 $6.0M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $68.7M on record.
- Department of Justice$55.1M
- Department of State$12.8M
- Department of Homeland Security$785k
- Department of Health and Human Services$25k
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 NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Police Foundation's Third Decade Fund for Improving Public Safety · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE: 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 NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE (Virginia) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,301,178 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,001,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $12,301,178 in grants to NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,001,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL POLICING INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 27 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