Tennessee · Nonprofit
TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $3k
- Net assets
- $358k
What Tennessee Fraternal Order of Police Charitable Foundation does
Mission
To improve the working conditions of police officers in tennessee by various means including providing a death benefit. The foundation will also maintain the tn law enforcement memorial in nashville and fund a vest replacement program and other programs as needed.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To administer charitable activities on behalf of the tn state lodge fraternal order of police to include but not limited to: body armor grant program, annual police memorial service, upkeep and maintenance of the police memorial wall, and provide funding for the line of duty death benefit for tnfop members.
$17,156 spentof which $2,750 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $17,156.
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 2023 to 2024, from $217k to $298k (+37%).
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: 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Board chair
Joe Burns
Chairman board of trustees
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE 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
TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Tennessee, across 1 state in all.
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
TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE 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 Tennessee
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
13% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Fraternal Order of Police Tennessee State Lodge · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE 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 TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (Tennessee) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $3,000 to it, the largest being HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION ($3,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $3,000 in grants to TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION?
- HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $3,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TENNESSEE FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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