Georgia · Nonprofit
SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC
SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,722 to it, the largest being CHARYN DARBY FOUNDATION 48238976 ($47,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $206k
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $109k
- Net assets
- $101k
What Smyrna Public Safety Foundation Inc does
Mission
SPSF provides support to the fire and police departments in Smyrna, GA, as these departments serve their community. This includes training, benevolence and community outreach.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Smyrna Public Safety Foundation conducted charitable activities in furtherance of its exempt purposes by providing assistance to public safety personnel and serving the local community. Programs include an annual Shop With A Hero event that pairs disadvantaged students with first responders for a holiday shopping experience, serving approximately 90-100 students annually, and providing gifts and meal assistance. The Foundation also provides direct financial assistance to public safety employees and their families during periods of hardship. Addtional activites include hosting and participating in community events that promote public safety, collecting donated goods for local charitable organizations, providing grant funding to the Smyrna Fire and Police Departments for training and community-based programs, and supporting these activities through fundrasing events and community contributions.
$155,793 spent$206,111 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $155,793.
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 2020 to 2021, from $123k to $223k (+81%).
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: 2021 2% · 2022 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
66% of SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (74% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Denise Czarnik
Executive director
Board chair
Paul Powers
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $9k → $6k.
4 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION 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
SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% 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
43% 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 SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 52% · 2021 38% · 2022 87% · 2023 100% — 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.
How long its funders stay
13% of SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% 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
SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,208 public safety & disaster nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC
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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
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 SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC?
- SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC (Georgia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $108,722 to it, the largest being CHARYN DARBY FOUNDATION 48238976 ($47,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $108,722 in grants to SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC?
- CHARYN DARBY FOUNDATION 48238976 is the largest funder on record, with $47,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SMYRNA PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing