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SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC

SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,600 to it, the largest being The Jack R Walter Foundation ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$411k
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
$4k
Grants received
$853k
Net assets
1/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%

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 ($270k) Expenses 100 ($273k) Net assets 100 ($857k)2018 Revenue 115 ($309k) Expenses 112 ($304k) Net assets 96 ($820k)2019 Revenue 123 ($331k) Expenses 119 ($325k) Net assets 101 ($869k)2020 Revenue 114 ($308k) Expenses 125 ($340k) Net assets 98 ($837k)2021 Revenue 167 ($449k) Expenses 142 ($387k) Net assets 110 ($945k)2022 Revenue 140 ($377k) Expenses 145 ($397k) Net assets 90 ($773k)2023 Revenue 137 ($369k) Expenses 151 ($412k) Net assets 97 ($828k)2024 Revenue 152 ($411k) Expenses 164 ($448k) Net assets 100 ($853k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (152)Expenses (164)Net assets (100)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$3k
17
$5k
18
$6k
19
$32k
20
$62k
21
$20k
22
$44k
23
$37k
24
0.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $100 → $2k.

From the IRS filings of SANTA MONICA 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

SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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

56%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 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

100% of SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC's grant income comes from California funders.

CA

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

17
22
California out of state home

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.

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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 249 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 SANTA MONICA 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.

Governance

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

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 3 related entities

  • Smpoa Charity · exempt
  • Santa Monica Poa for a Better Community · exempt
  • Ret Med Pl of the Smpoa Benefits Tr · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SANTA MONICA 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 SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC?
SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC (California) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,600 to it, the largest being The Jack R Walter Foundation ($2,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC have?
IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $3,600 in grants to SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SANTA MONICA POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION INC?
The Jack R Walter 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 SANTA MONICA 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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