California · Nonprofit
POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION
POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,405 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($38,623). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $149k
What Police and Working K-9 Foundation does
Mission
The Police and Working K-9 Foundation works with local communities and law enforcement agencies in California to provide education, safety equipment and training for K-9 teams. We provide heat alarms for patrol cars, a K-9 Emergency Medicine Course and custom Cover Your K-9 Trauma kits. We maintain an important Cover Your K9 Retired K-9 Emergency Care Fund to provide emergency medical care to retired K-9s.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Police and Working K-9 Foundation Cover Your K-9 program has provided essential safety equipment and training for law enforcement K-9 teams in Northern California since 2009.Although we have had challenges sourcing supplies for our kits during the pandemic and during these years with multiple wars in the world, our hardworking volunteers are able to continue to make our custom Cover Your K9 Trauma Kits, which are valued at over $300 and distribute them to K-9 teams in California. Since starting our K9 emergency medical training in 2011, over 1875 law enforcement K9 handlers from local, state and federal agencies have attended the life-saving training & received K9 trauma kits. We are proud that our Cover Your Trauma Kits and advanced training have saved the lives of several K-9s over the past few years. We plan to offer our K-9 Emergency Medicine Course again in 2025.When police dogs retire they go to live with their handler and become part of the family. The responsibility for their ongoing care and any medical emergencies falls to the handler. We believe that these K9s who have served and protected us so bravely deserve much better in their golden years. To help them we have…
$4,607 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $4,607.
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 $135k to $196k (+45%).
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.
99% of POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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.
Board chair
Officer Alex Jose
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $13k → $188.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 POLICE AND WORKING K-9 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
POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
98% 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 POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2019 94% · 2020 92% · 2021 96% · 2022 89% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of POLICE AND WORKING K-9 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 $2k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $79k 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
POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like POLICE AND WORKING K-9 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.
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 POLICE AND WORKING K-9 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 POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION?
- POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,405 to it, the largest being PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ($38,623). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $81,405 in grants to POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLICE AND WORKING K-9 FOUNDATION?
- PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND is the largest funder on record, with $38,623 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLICE AND WORKING K-9 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 7 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