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SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC

SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,650 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$97k
Funders on record
4
Grants received
$9k
Net assets
$251k
0/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sheriffs Foundation of York County Inc does

Mission

Foster public recognition support and understanding of the role of law enforcement in general and specifically the role of the York County Sheriffs Office; encourage persons to choose a career in the field of law enforcement; increase officer retention through recognition education and professional development; to contribute to the growth of the York County Sheriffs Office and to the betterment of York County.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Law enforcement assistance fund: assists area officers spouses and or dependent with expenses associated with debilitating illness injury or disaster relief.

    $31,500 spentof which $31,500 as grants
    32% of program spending
  2. Project Lifesaver: provides funds for at-risk person locator program.

    $17,722 spentof which $17,722 as grants
    18% of program spending
  3. Scholarship funds: awarded to area students interested in career in law enforcement.

    $36,000 spentof which $36,000 as grants
    37% of program spending
  4. Other program services

    $12,909 spentof which $3,150 as grants
    13% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $98,131.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($74k) Expenses 100 ($35k) Net assets 100 ($208k)2022 Revenue 59 ($44k) Expenses 117 ($41k) Net assets 102 ($211k)2023 Revenue 174 ($129k) Expenses 262 ($91k) Net assets 119 ($248k)2024 Revenue 144 ($106k) Expenses 289 ($101k) Net assets 122 ($254k)2025 Revenue 131 ($97k) Expenses 284 ($99k) Net assets 121 ($251k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (131)Expenses (284)Net assets (121)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 $211k to $248k (+18%).

$208k
$211k
$248k
$254k
$251k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,020 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$39k
’21
$3k
’22
$37k
’23
$6k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $2k → $50.

1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY 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

SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

69% 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 SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC.

69%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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

69% of SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC'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 $3k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from funders outside South Carolina, across 3 states.

MO
NC
SC

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

’20
’21
South Carolina out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)7% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

SC

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Questions and answers

Who funds SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC?
SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC (South Carolina) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,650 to it, the largest being TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($6,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $8,650 in grants to SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC.
Who is the largest funder of SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC?
TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHERIFFS FOUNDATION OF YORK COUNTY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in South Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 4 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