Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE
SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,055 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC ($15,055). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $15k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Safety Equipment Institute does
Mission
The organization administers an auditing, testing and certification program for safe living and working environments.(see schedule o)the program's purpose is to assist industry and government agencies in meeting their mutual goals of providing workers and consumers the best possible products and environment through testing for public safety in keeping with recognized standards and the current state of the art, and for public benefit to recognize and disseminate information on those products which are certified to meet the applicable standards.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Safety Equipment Institute's program accomplishment is consistent with the organization's purpose and mission. The organization's primary program accomplishment is to determine compliance of products and systems with nationally and internationally recognized public safety standards through the administration of a testing and certification program to assure the continued safety of the general public and those who use certified products. We accomplish this through reviewing the drawings and designs of the products, performing quality audits of the manufacturing facilities, and ensuring the testing laboratories used to conduct the testing are accredited to iso 17025.
$3,898,307 spent$4,267,519 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,898,307.
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 $4.3M to $2.8M (−35%).
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.
0% of SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (69% 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
Karen Lehtonen
Chair of the board
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE’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.
Where its funders are
SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE's revenue fell 16% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 804 public safety & disaster nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $682k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$677k
- Department of Justice$5k
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 SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- American Society for Testing and Materials · exempt
- Test Monitoring Center · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE: 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 SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE?
- SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $15,055 to it, the largest being UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC ($15,055). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $15,055 in grants to SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE.
- Who is the largest funder of SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE?
- UNITED STATES POLO ASSOCIATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $15,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAFETY EQUIPMENT INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 1 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