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PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC
PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,178,924 to it, the largest being SUNCOAST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($433,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $827k
What Pinellas County Sheriff's Police Athletic League Inc does
Mission
The pinellas county sherrifs police athletic league pals mission is to provide positive activities, academics, mentoring, leadership, training, tutoring, and life skills programming to pinellas county youth. The vision of the pinellas county sheriffs police athletic league is to provide a positive influence on youth in the pinellas county.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Pals education, recreation, community service, and sports programs serve as the foundation for the development of leadership skills, good citzenship, and good sportsmanship. Pals programs target youth primarily in unincorprated lealman33714 and 33709, an area identified as one of pinellas countys five at risk zones with a concentration of poverty and crime. Its pals policy to accept any child regardless of ability to pay and serves all interested children with emphasis on a target population of at-risk youth from low income to poverty level families. Pals endeared by its many community partnerships help expand pals reach to serve more children and their families. Pals name bearing partner, pinellas county sheriffs office, delivers positive interactions with law enforcement for pals vulenarble at risk youth. This and pals many other strategic partnerships highlight and promote the system of care for this unincorporated area to enhance the resouces, the family and the community. None of this would be without generous people in our community who care about the kids.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $942k (−49%).
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 56% · 2018 62% · 2019 61% · 2020 63% · 2021 45% · 2022 46% · 2023 42% · 2024 36% · 2025 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Randi Meyer
Exec director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $124k → $64k.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 20 of 21 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
PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
82% 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 PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 48% · 2019 36% · 2020 32% · 2021 26% · 2022 30% · 2023 50% — 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
60% of PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
76% of PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $191k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC
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In Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC: 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 PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC?
- PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC (Florida) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,178,924 to it, the largest being SUNCOAST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ($433,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,178,924 in grants to PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC?
- SUNCOAST CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $433,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PINELLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 21 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