New York · Nonprofit
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC (New York) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,913,008 to it, the largest being GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ($1,193,004). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 195
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Police Athletic League Inc does
Mission
Police athletic league, together with nypd and the law enforcement community, supports and inspires new york city youth to realize their full individual potential as productive members of society.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Child care: through seven early head start and head start centers, pal helps young children, ages 2-5, develop social skills and build a strong foundation for future achievement in school. Through the "bridging the achievement gap initiative", the programs have a strong focus on literacy. Our site in rockaway also has programming for expectant mothers.
$12,731,065 spent44% of program spendingCenter operations: k-8th grade students take part in afterschool and summer day camp programs at 18 centers in all five boroughs. Programs have a strong focus on science, technology, engineering and math (stem), literacy, nutrition, fitness and social-emotional learning.
$11,815,822 spent41% of program spendingTeen programs: pal helps older youth, ages 13-19 gain work skills to promote long-term educational and career outcomes. 10 teen centers offer drop-in, safe spaces within pal communities where youth can connect with positive peer and adult mentors and take part in an array of holistic recreational, educational and job skills training activities, and social-emotional supports. Pal's youth link service offers an enhanced teen model with a comprehensive suite of services including mental health supports at five sites. Program enhancements include additions to our staff of lmsw's and increased training requirements for direct line staff in the nyc "building resilient youth" program model for teens. The maap program offers one-on-one mentorship to teenagers who are under the supervision of the nyc administration of children services. Pal also offers jobs skills training and placements through the work progress program.
$2,839,675 spent$73,497 earned by the program10% of program spendingSports and recreation: pal offers sports for boys and girls ages 9-19 throughout the city to include soccer, flag-football, basketball, softball, volleyball, lacrosse, and street hockey. Sports are offered through pal centers, the "saturday night lights" program and cops & kids sports leagues supported by volunteer nypd officers. Pal playstreets were offered at nyc housing authority and other neighborhood locations for five weeks of the summer, bringing the elements of summer camp directly to the doorsteps of youth in low-income eighborhoods. Pal continued to offer pop-up street games in which youth had opportunities to get outside and play in sports days throughout the city.
$1,644,429 spent6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $29,030,991.
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 2020 to 2021, from $30M to $36M (+23%).
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 78% · 2018 83% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2023 91% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Carlos Velazquez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 61 funders to 68 funders, grant income fell $1.8M → $900k.
11 of 195 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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: $338k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Jewish Communal Fund). These are real filings, and they are not money POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC raised.
From the IRS filings of POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 195 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
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
47% 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 ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 14% · 2019 9% · 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 12% · 2023 15% — diversifying over time.
“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
37% of POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
77% of POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC's revenue grew 15% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $117.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$117.4M
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 POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC?
- POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC (New York) receives grants from 195 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,913,008 to it, the largest being GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION ($1,193,004). 108 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 195 organizations giving $8,913,008 in grants to POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC, 108 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC?
- GARDEN OF DREAMS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,193,004 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 195 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