Arizona · Nonprofit
Phoenix Police Museum
Phoenix Police Museum (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,575 to it, the largest being STUDEBAKER NATIONAL FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $217k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $2k
- Net assets
- $296k
What Phoenix Police Museum does
Mission
Organizations mission--the Phoenix Police Museums goal is to educate the public in the history of the police, interact with the citizens of phoenix through a positive learning environment, and promote and pursue the history of the department. The museum accomplishes these goals using a wide variety of interactive displays and exhibits which are viewed by adults, students, and children annually. In order to enable all groups to view the exhibits, the museum does not charge entrance fees.
As stated on its FY2019 Form 990.
Program
All other accompishments - The Phoenix Police Museum, a 501 c3 Corporation, continues to be solely funded by private donors and operates within a small budget. Approximately 1,700 payroll deduction members of the police department and other Phoenix City departments contribute $5.00 per month to finance the museum. We also have approximately 100 additional members consisting of community citizens and retired officers. The museum experienced some changes with another department group moving into Historic City Hall as their new main tenant. As a result, the museum has its own separate facilities integrated in the museum space. The efforts to restore the Historic Jail Elevator continues with general estimates and costs. Funding options and contributions are being sought to complete the project. The musuem has five part time employees and approximately ten volunteers. The Curator position is funded by the City of Phoenix. The Curator is supplemented by one part tiime employee and several volunteers to assist in the museum operations. Gift shop items have been expanded to supplement museum income. The Phoenix Police Museum has served the community as well as the Phoenix Police…
$143,839 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $143,839.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $225k to $297k (+32%).
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.
82% of Phoenix Police Museum’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $1k → $226.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Phoenix Police Museum’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
Phoenix Police Museum leans on a few funders — its largest provides 63% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
37% 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 Phoenix Police Museum.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
Phoenix Police Museum draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $575 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
Phoenix Police Museum runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Phoenix Police Museum
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 Arizona
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
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Phoenix Police Museum: 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 Phoenix Police Museum?
- Phoenix Police Museum (Arizona) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,575 to it, the largest being STUDEBAKER NATIONAL FOUNDATION ($1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Phoenix Police Museum have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,575 in grants to Phoenix Police Museum, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Phoenix Police Museum?
- STUDEBAKER NATIONAL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Phoenix Police Museum find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 2018–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing