California · Nonprofit
Sheriffs Toy Project
Sheriffs Toy Project (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $183 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($183). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $183
- Net assets
- $274k
What Sheriffs Toy Project does
Mission
The Sheriff's Toy Project functions as a charitable arm of the Sacramento Sheriff's Department wherein participants of the Sheriff's Work Project spend their court ordered jail sentence making toys and refurbishing donated bicycles. Through partnerships with organizations such as YES (Youth Education Sports) and the Salvation Army, we distribute toys, bicycles and other items to children in need throughout the Sacramento region, including donations to the Mustard Seed School, a school for homeless children. The Sheriff's Toy Project also serves as a local outreach program between the Sacramento County Sheriff department and our community and provides significant relief to an overcrowded jail system, which also reduces cost for the citizens of Sacramento County.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
The Sheriff's Toy Project continued its mission in 2025 to provide hope, support, and holiday assistance to underserved families throughout our community. Beyond measurable numbers, the greatest achievement remains the compassion and generosity shared between community members, volunteers, donors, and the families we serve. Thousands of parents experienced the joy and relief of being able to provide Christmas gifts for their children, while countless residents and local businesses contributed selflessly through toy drives, volunteer service, and financial donations to support our efforts.During the 2025 holiday season, Sheriff's Toy Project served more than 1,000 families and provided Christmas assistance to over 3,300 children. A total of 17,172 toys were distributed, along with 27 new bicycles, 75 turkeys, and holiday food boxes for families in need.Sheriff's Toy Project also extended support to hospitalized children and families facing serious medical challenges. In partnership with UC Davis and Shriners Children's Hospitals, 200 holiday stockings were donated to brighten the season for pediatric patients. The organization additionally assisted seven UC Davis pediatric cancer…
$71,935 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,935.
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 2021 to 2022, from $153k to $224k (+47%).
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.
100% of Sheriffs Toy Project’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Toy Project’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
100% of Sheriffs Toy Project'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $183 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.
Against its field
Sheriffs Toy Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Sheriffs Toy Project
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 California
Nationally
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Sheriffs Toy Project: 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 Sheriffs Toy Project?
- Sheriffs Toy Project (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $183 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($183). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Sheriffs Toy Project have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $183 in grants to Sheriffs Toy Project.
- Who is the largest funder of Sheriffs Toy Project?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $183 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Sheriffs Toy Project 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.
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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 2017–2025), 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