California · Nonprofit
SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY
SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,512 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($63,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $145k
- Net assets
- $697k
What Shop With a Cop Foundation of Silicon Valley does
Mission
To provide innovative academic motivation, charitable relief, and assisantance to at risk, disenfranchised children in need
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Readers are leaders - students who make significant reading growth in a 10 week reading challenge are recognized for their accomplishments at a special assembly plus, they earn their way to the heroes & helpers holiday shopping spree. Additionally, there is an 8 week spring reading challenge for 3rd grade students at partnered elementary schools. The purpose of this reading challenge is to encourage students to keep reading beyond the december shopping spree.
$11,387 spent7% of program spendingHeroes & helpers holiday shopping spree - benefits 200 students from the four title 1 elementary schools shop with a cop partners with in addition to children who have suffered a traumatic loss of a parent through some form of violence.
$124,463 spent75% of program spendingOperation backpack - benefits over 700 students from the four partner elementary schools with new backpacks filled with necessary school supplies for the start of the new school year.
$6,348 spent4% of program spendingCommunity reading buddies - students who are reading below grade level are identified by school's principal to participate in a one-on-one 8 week reading program, twice a week for 1 hour sessions. Students are paired with a reading mentor who guides them through a leveled reading program called booknook. Approximateley 20 children benefit from this extra resource help. Hardship/bereavement program - the swacsv is committed to providing academic support, charitable relief, and direct assistance to undeserved children (ages 5-12), including those who have experienced trauma or the loss of a parent due to violence or domestic circumstances. In addition to its core programs, swacsv raises and allocates funds to support children facing significant hardship, with a focus on long-term stability and educational opportunity.
$24,514 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $166,712.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $419k to $523k (+25%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 31% · 2022 6% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (75% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $6k.
6 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 87% 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 SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY’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
SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 75%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
92% 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 SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 83% · 2019 99% · 2020 89% · 2021 69% · 2022 51% · 2023 99% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.
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
87% of SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY'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 $18k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Against its field
SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,014 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY
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.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY?
- SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $144,512 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($63,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 87% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $144,512 in grants to SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $63,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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