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POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY

POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,045 to it, the largest being THE PAUL D WASSEROTT FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$266k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$2k
Net assets
$316k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What Police Athletic League of the Borough of Totowa New Jersey does

Mission

Totowa Police Athletic League PAL is organized to serve youth ages 516 in Totowa New Jersey by providing athletic programs and related activities that develop fundamental sports skills promote physical fitness encourage teamwork and foster positive youth development.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Totowa Police Athletic League provides organized athletic instruction in football soccer baseball softball basketball cheerleading and hockey for youth ages 4-16 in the Borough of Totowa New Jersey. Programs develop fundamental sports skills promote physical fitness encourage teamwork and foster positive youth development. The organization awarded five academic athletic scholarships of 500 each to deserving youth participants during the year.

    $231,180 spentof which $2,500 as grants$314,742 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. The organization operates a snack shack at its athletic facility during program events and games providing food and beverages to participants families and spectators. All proceeds from snack shack operations are used exclusively to support the organizations youth athletic programs. The snack shack is operated entirely by PAL volunteers.

    $0 spent$21,798 earned by the program
    0% of program spending
  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $231,180.

02The organization over time
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $45.

1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY’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 ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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

98%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 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

POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside New Jersey, across 1 state in all.

PA

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $45 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY is better cushioned than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve7.4mo · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

49% of spending goes to programs.

Program 49%Management 50%Fundraising 1%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY?
POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY (New Jersey) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,045 to it, the largest being THE PAUL D WASSEROTT FOUNDATION ($2,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $2,045 in grants to POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY.
Who is the largest funder of POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY?
THE PAUL D WASSEROTT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF THE BOROUGH OF TOTOWA NEW JERSEY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 2024–2024), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing