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SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION

SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,058 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION ($75,613). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$1.3M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$392k
Net assets
$3.8M
8/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%
01What it does

What San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation does

Mission

The San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation receives charitable contributons from the public and from members of the san diego police officers association, and to engage in charitable fundraising activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The San Diego Police Officers Association Foundation provides support to san diego police officers and their families with benefits in time of sickness, distress and death. The foundation also awards collegiate scholarships to the children of their active and/or line of duty death member beneficiaries. In addition, the foundation provides support for a select variety of non-profit organizations to further the mission of the san diego police officers association.

    $1,434,231 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,434,231.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($503k) Expenses 100 ($431k) Net assets 100 ($829k)2019 Revenue 98 ($492k) Expenses 80 ($347k) Net assets 112 ($927k)2020 Revenue 87 ($437k) Expenses 90 ($390k) Net assets 116 ($960k)2021 Revenue 84 ($422k) Expenses 62 ($266k) Net assets 144 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 59 ($299k) Expenses 109 ($469k) Net assets 116 ($964k)2023 Revenue 385 ($1.9M) Expenses 123 ($529k) Net assets 296 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 454 ($2.3M) Expenses 174 ($750k) Net assets 490 ($4.1M)2025 Revenue 257 ($1.3M) Expenses 361 ($1.6M) Net assets 463 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (257)Expenses (361)Net assets (463)Peer revenue range

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 $964k to $2.7M (+176%).

$839k
$927k
$968k
$1.2M
$964k
$2.7M
$4.1M
$3.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,052 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$72k
’18
$145k
’19
$47k
’20
$156k
’21
−$170k
’22
$1.4M
’23
$1.5M
’24
−$266k
’25
9.2
months of
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.

'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Listed111191014111010
Joined·+2+0+1+5+2+1+1
No longer listed·2201521
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $95k → $80k.

9 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 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

SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

78% 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 SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION.

19%
largest funder
48%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 46% · 2019 75% · 2020 40% · 2021 65% · 2022 34% · 2023 62% — 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

18% of SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

55% of SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION 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 $178k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.

CA
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $214k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−21% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,504 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 1%Fundraising 7%

Governance

10
board members
90%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • San Diego Police Officers Assoc Inc · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $392,058 to it, the largest being SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION ($75,613). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $392,058 in grants to SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION?
SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $75,613 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION 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.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 18 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