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SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC

SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,582 to it, the largest being DISTRICT ATTORNEY INVESTIGATORS ASSOC OF SD ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$3.4M
Revenue FY2025
7
Funders on record
$118k
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
1/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.3M) Expenses 100 ($2.3M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 93 ($2.1M) Expenses 96 ($2.2M) Net assets 95 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 104 ($2.3M) Expenses 103 ($2.3M) Net assets 96 ($1.3M)2020 Revenue 125 ($2.8M) Expenses 119 ($2.7M) Net assets 106 ($1.4M)2021 Revenue 124 ($2.8M) Expenses 109 ($2.5M) Net assets 132 ($1.8M)2022 Revenue 127 ($2.9M) Expenses 123 ($2.8M) Net assets 136 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 127 ($2.9M) Expenses 118 ($2.7M) Net assets 156 ($2.1M)2024 Revenue 143 ($3.2M) Expenses 128 ($2.9M) Net assets 185 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 150 ($3.4M) Expenses 144 ($3.3M) Net assets 199 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (150)Expenses (144)Net assets (199)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$67
17
$75k
18
$22k
19
$148k
20
$337k
21
$93k
22
$203k
23
$328k
24
$136k
25
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $12k → $16k.

1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)9% 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 INC’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

SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC 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

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 SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC.

38%
largest funder
85%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2019 100% · 2021 50% · 2022 93%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.

Where its funders are

63% of SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
UT

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

17
19
21
22
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 195 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

72% of spending goes to programs.

Program 72%Management 28%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Sdpoa Foundation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC: 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 SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC?
SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $117,582 to it, the largest being DISTRICT ATTORNEY INVESTIGATORS ASSOC OF SD ($45,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $117,582 in grants to SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC?
DISTRICT ATTORNEY INVESTIGATORS ASSOC OF SD is the largest funder on record, with $45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAN DIEGO POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION INC 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing