Nevada · Nonprofit
Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation
Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,821 to it, the largest being LYNNE RUFFIN-SMITH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($62,821). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $63k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation does
Mission
Promote the law enforcement profession secure law enforcement historical items and educate the community abourt the history of local Nevada law enforcement through the display of these historical items.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Preservation of law enforcement artifacts
$9,594 spent54% of program spendingSupport of law enforcement profession
$8,312 spent46% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,906.
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 $84k to $113k (+34%).
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.
53% of Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $15k → $10k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $30k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Metropolitan Police Museum Association of Nevada). These are real filings, and they are not money Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation’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
Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nevada, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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.
Against its field
Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,183 philanthropy nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation
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 Nevada
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation: 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 Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation?
- Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation (Nevada) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $62,821 to it, the largest being LYNNE RUFFIN-SMITH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($62,821). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $62,821 in grants to Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation?
- LYNNE RUFFIN-SMITH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $62,821 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Southern Nevada Law Enforcement Memorial Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nevada. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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