Minnesota · Nonprofit
PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION
PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,822 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($194,656). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $324k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $511k
- Net assets
- $628k
What Public Safety Foundation does
Mission
To be the leading advocate of public safety in the greater st. Cloud region.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Community outpost house: the gscps foundation owns the community oupost house located at 606 13th avenue south in st. Cloud, minnesota which is occupied by the st. Cloud police department. The house location allows law enforcement to remain close to this troubled area in order to build relationships with the residents, reduce crime and improve the quality of life in the neighborhood. Centracare health, gold cross ambulance and stearns county human services also occupy the cop house along with many other organizations that provide vital health and human services as well as fun and engaging activities for neighborhood children and families.
$101,794 spent$11,450 earned by the program64% of program spendingFirst responder conference: provided training focusing on the stressors experienced by first responders and their spouses/partners and provide them and their families with ways to remain emotionally and spiritually healthy. The conference also provided an opportunity to thank and recognize those individuals who serve our communities. The foundation intends to make this an annual event and has branded it as "put the firsts 1st".
$38,383 spent24% of program spendingScholarship program: the greater st. Cloud Public Safety Foundation (gscps foundation) provides scholarships to individuals seeking a career as a first responder which includes law enforcement, fire fighting and emergency medical services.
$20,000 spentof which $16,000 as grants12% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $160,177.
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 2022 to 2023, from $487k to $596k (+22%).
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.
93% of PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Ken Bellicot
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $95k → $62k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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: $180k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest St Cloud Rotary Foundation Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC SAFETY 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
PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
65% 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 PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 69% · 2019 74% · 2020 75% · 2021 67% · 2022 75% · 2023 61% — 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
40% of PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
62% of PUBLIC SAFETY 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 $193k that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $318k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like PUBLIC SAFETY 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
56%
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 PUBLIC SAFETY 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 PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $510,822 to it, the largest being COMMUNITYGIVING ($194,656). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $510,822 in grants to PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION?
- COMMUNITYGIVING is the largest funder on record, with $194,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 12 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